Water board helps CERT communications

The Holley-Navarre Water System board of directors will assist the Navarre Community Emergency Response Team with better communication measures throughout the county.

The board approved a request from Lou Greene, vice chairman of Navarre CERT, during an Aug. 16 meeting to allow CERT to install its radio antenna on top of a water tower on Whispering Pines Boulevard.

Greene said CERT had 100 members trained for search and rescue, and the volunteers used radios to communication with each other as well as other county Emergency Operations Centers. For example, he said about 80 volunteers responded last year at the request of the sheriff to someone lost on the beach to assist.

“Unfortunately, our antenna is not high enough to have communications north halfway to Milton and Okaloosa County,” he said.

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