National security still lacking post 9/11, Wheeler says
<p>Members of the Sandpoint police and fire departments stand at attention as part of a color guard taking part in Friday’s Sept. 11 remembrance ceremony at Memorial Field. (Photo by KEITH KINNAIRD)</p>
SANDPOINT —Bonner County Sheriff Daryl Wheeler said the nation — and Bonner County — have come a long way toward improving emergency and communications since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2011.
Wheeler, the featured speaker during a ceremony Friday marking the 14th anniversary of the attacks, said the county's emergency communications platform is unified and first responders can speak with one another with an ease that eluded law officers, firefighters and paramedics on the day jetliners were flown into the Twin Towers in New York City, the Pentagon and a field in Shanksville, Pa. The county has also instituted a disaster preparedness plan since the 9/11 attacks.
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