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as they volunteer because they want to exercise their skills. SORS plays a vital role <br />countywide providing a back up EMS truck, rehab, and specialized rescue to the fire <br />departments and should receive more respect and operational input. <br />Lastly the VIPER radio system is not suited for fire and rescue applications. During <br />several incident responses that we've experienced since switching to- VIPER, it has been <br />proven that we need more channels to- operate on and we need the county to look at <br />funding two additional repeater sites. Firefighter safety is our top priority and the VIPER <br />system hinders our ability to see this through. There are dead spots throughout the <br />county that are only identified once on a call operating in an emergency function and <br />VIPER provides limited building penetration of radio signals-creating additional risks for <br />firefighters when fighting a fire or responding to medical incidents inside buildings. We <br />have state of the art hardware and are limited by the VIPER system itself. <br />Thank you for your time and we look forward to meeting with everyone -in September. <br />Respectfiilly, <br />The_ Orange County Fire Chief s <br />