As Clay County Emergency Management Agency Director, I have learned a lot of things over the last four-and-a-half years.

One of them, is learning the resources and capabilities of the people and organizations here in Clay County. There has been a big push over the last 2-3 years for interoperable communications.

The State of Indiana has been building a statewide infrastructure of radio towers so we can communicate from one end of the state to the other. One of the problems with this system is, if an event happens that destroys a group of these towers, a specific area communications will not exist.