Federal agents from multiple law
enforcement agencies are helping to restore communications in Puerto
Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Agents from the Drug Enforcement
Agency, Postal Service and others worked with the Air National Guard and
the Air Force to bring and erect at least five AT&T portable cell
phone towers to the San Juan area, according to the Department of
Defense and the carrier. Normally, the towers are trucked in to a
location; this marked the first time the mobile cell towers were flown
to a location in need, according to AT&T.
“We can put them wherever they are
needed and once an area gains stable cell communication, we can move
them to the next location,” said Col. Rick Seymour, Alabama National
Guard, who is helping to coordinate the effort.
Moving the portable towers required the Air Force’s heaviest airlifter –
the C-5 Galaxy, flown by the 436th Airlift Wing based at Dover Air
Force Base in Delaware, according to the Air Mobility Command. Continue Reading
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