A first responder in Casey County said communication problems that caused five outages from mid-January to mid-February have improved, but still pose a threat to them and the people they’re trying to help. Brandon Long is a volunteer firefighter and chief of the Liberty-Casey County rescue squad. He said part of the problem is there’s just one tower and one set of antennas to cover the entire county.
“You have high hills and low valleys. So we've always only had one tower for communications; our elected officials, our county officials, have never in 30 or 40 years ever took a step to move forward to add an additional tower.”
