Firefighters had difficulty using their radios during an emergency on the Washington subway system because fire officials had made changes to their radio system without alerting their partners who oversee the subway, officials said Thursday.
The Metro transit agency’s interim General Manager Jack Requa said Thursday after an agency safety board meeting that the District of Columbia’s fire department had made changes to its radio system without alerting his agency.
“They made adjustments by encrypting their radios which made their radios less effective or almost non-working on our system,” Requa said, adding that after Metro got access to the site where firefighters made the changes, they were able to determine what had been done and respond accordingly.
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