Friday, October 6, 2017

No injuries as Rocky River High School Cell light tower catches fire

No injuries as Rocky River High School Cell light tower catches fire

"At 5:53 p.m., a single-engine company was dispatched regarding a fire on a light pole consisting of stadium lights and cell phone tower equipment,"

image from http://www.cleveland19.com/story/34549808/rocky-river-high-school-stadium-light-catches-fire

No injuries as Rocky River High School Cell light tower catches fire

Written by suebotos on February 22, 2017 — Leave a Comment 
Rocky River
A heavy plume of gray smoke hovered over the Rocky River High School stadium around 6 p.m. Monday night as a light tower caught fire and burned.
Fire Chief Aaron Lenart said the cause for the fire, which was contained to the inside of the pole, is under investigation. “This is the first time I have ever seen anything like this,” he remarked.
There were no injuries, and a Rocky River Fire Department report stated a safety zone was established around the electrified pole, which started to lean back toward homes on Northview Road behind the stadium. Police evacuated the homes and Lakewood Fire assisted by securing a water source and standing by on Northview in case of a collapse.
Mike Ressler, an Illuminating Company supervisor, disconnected power to the pole, leaving cell tower equipment still electrified. Power was shut off at the high school, which was unoccupied at the time.
The cell equipment is leased by AT&T, which was contacted but unable to find a record of the tower in their system. Owner representative Stacy Hare said he would follow up.
All power was back in service by 7 p.m.
Read it at http://westlife.northcoastnow.com/2017/02/no-injuries-as-rrhs-light-tower-catches-fire/

Rocky River Fire Department extinguishes high school stadium tower fire

ROCKY RIVER, Ohio - Rocky River Fire Department responded to a light tower fire Monday evening at the high school stadium.
"At 5:53 p.m., a single-engine company was dispatched regarding a fire on a light pole consisting of stadium lights and cell phone tower equipment," Rocky River Fire Chief Aaron Lenart said. "The guys could see the smoke in the air when they left the station.
"On arrival, they had heavy smoke showing from multiple hole openings from the tower. It was on the backside of the stadium property near Northview Road. We threw a couple thousand gallons of water to cool the tower down. At this point, we don't have any idea what caused the fire."
Due to President's Day, Rocky River High School was not in session yesterday; however, the lacrosse team did hold its first practice of the year at the Detroit Road stadium. 
"The athletic director (Mark Wagner) met with coaches to show them how to turn on the lights," Rocky River City Schools Communications & Technology Executive Director Dianna R. Foley said.
"They turned on series of lights. After the lights were on, they realized there was a problem and they turned them off. Everybody was sent out of the stadium, and the fire department was called." 
The damaged tower, located roughly near the 50-yard line of the stadium, is warped and currently leaning slightly. Lenart said a Lakewood Fire Department engine was also called to the scene as a precautionary measure in case the tower should fall. There were no injuries.
Lenart added. "This is the first time I've ever dealt with anything like this in my career."
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Cell Tower At McClintock Middle School: Workers Rescued: Children Sick: Could It Be The Cell Tower?

Could the Cell Tower Have Caused the Children To Be Sick? 
A recent cell tower incident sparked our interest in this school. In our search for information on the cell tower rescue done near McClintock Middle School, we found out a strange series of stories about  children who became sick after being outside. They had symptoms of headaches, fainting and passing out. This are all common symptoms from overexposure to microwave radiation from cell towers.

We ask that this be researched. Please see facts and news stories below.
The Cell Tower directly next to the school is registered as a Sprint/Crown Castle Cell Tower according to Antennae Search
  • Children were sick after being outside. 
  • The school says it was "heat related" which is odd as it was February.  
  • Could the antennae power been turned up higher on these days by accident? 
We do not know what caused these students to become ill but hope that this questions have been fully explored.

NEWS STORIES
'CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV)  News: Workers Rescued From Cell Tower

Firefighters responded to a high-angle rescue involving two workers who were stuck on top of a cell tower in south Charlotte Thursday night.

The rescue happened just before 10 p.m. on the 1900 block of Rama Road (1925 Rama Rd, Charlotte, NC 28212 ) near McClintock Middle School. Officials said the people who were trapped were subcontractors working on the tower.

The subcontractors were doing maintenance on the tower when the incident occurred.

Police said one of the workers was reportedly unconscious because of a medical issue. The other worker then went up to help his coworker but couldn't bring him down.

Charlotte firefighters said the people being rescued were about 130 feet in the air, which caused a problem because it's higher than the truck's ladder can go.

From http://www.wbtv.com/story/36480808/workers-rescued-from-top-of-cell-tower-in-south-charlotte

See also http://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/watch-crews-save-worker-in-daring-high-angle-rescue/616472104

CELL TOWER RESCUE: There were scary moments for two workers in Charlotte, North Carolina.


Firefighters had to rescue the pair from the top of a cell tower.


We pose a question. Earlier in the year students were mysteriously sick from "heat related illness" in February. Yes February. Could there be a connection? Could students be sick because of the microwave radiation from the antennas? When were the antennas turned on? 

"I went outside, and my head started hurting, and I felt like passing out," Javier said.








February 2017 News Stories

WSOCTV 12 students treated, 2 taken to hospital after falling ill at McClintock MS


Note: This is an example of a Title 1 School placed near high tension wires and a cell tower. Poor children go to schools disproportionately situated near cell towers.  

WSOCTV: Students fall ill at McClintock Middle School for second straight day

The students who felt ill Friday had just come in from outside, the county medical director said.


See images below of the school next to the cell tower. 




Who should we call?
Call the news of course.

FOR NEWS TIPS CONTACT THE ASSIGNMENT DESK:

STATION INFORMATION:
Switchboard: 704-338-9999
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 34665, Charlotte, NC  28234
Physical Address: 1901 North Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC 28206


TO CONTACT ACTION 9:
Call: 704-335-4738
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Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Elementary School Parent Blocked From PTO Meetings To Talk about Cell Tower Proposal on Childs Elementary School

Read the Letter Ann Arundel Assistant Superintendent wrote a Shady Side parent who was STOPPED from attending the PTO meeting to talk about a cell tower proposed on the school.
Read the two press releases put out by parents after the police were called on them two times for trying to inform other parents about the cell tower.


Note: The parent wrote Mr. Bibeault after she and others were barred from entering the PTO meeting at Shady Side Elementary School. Police were called on the parents. Below is the response from the school administrator in Anne Arundel County Public Schools.
(Ms. M used to represent the parent)
From: "Bibeault, Raymond E" <RBIBEAULT@AACPS.org>
Date: October 1, 2017 at 7:40:22 PM EDT
To: Parent
Cc: "Casey, Geoffrey R" <GRCASEY@AACPS.org>
Subject: RE: Cell Tower at Shady Side Elementary School

Dear Ms. M
Both the PTO and the school administration are not in positions to change the course of the proposed cell tower.  The BOE made a decision to allow the company to work with AACO officials in zoning, permits, etc. to weigh in on the construction.  This is where your concerns and those of others on either side can express their opinions.  The school must stay out of this as it is an agent of the BOE and represents the interest of the community; those who want the tower and those who do not.
The PTO meeting is not the avenue to express concerns, it is now with county officials.  Those wishing to come to a PTO meeting to discuss the cell tower from either side of the argument will not be given an audience for this. 
The willingness of community members to volunteer and support the school should not obligate Mr. Casey or the PTO to entertaining the continued distractions of the cell tower debate.  I appreciate the emotionality of this issue but I will continue to support the school’s decision to not enter into this discussion and to remove those from the school who choose to try to change the conversation at PTO or other meetings away from issue controlled by the school.
Thank you for your email and understanding.
Raymond E. Bibeault
Regional Assistant Superintendent
Meade/Southern Clusters

Read the press release put out by Shady Side Coalition of parents to  Halt the Elementary School Cell tower in regards to this issue.




Learn more about this issue by reading this blog.
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Sunday, October 1, 2017

Hempfield School District Parents in Lancaster, PA are Battling an Elementary School Cell Tower

Parents in the Hempfield School District in Lancaster, PA are battling an impending cell tower on the playground/fitness trail at Rohrerstown Elementary School. As the community becomes more informed, the concerns are growing....

They are also hoping to shut down a cell tower at Landisville Middle School (situated on the same campus as two elementary schools and the Hempfield High School), and prevent any future cell towers on other school grounds.
They have a petition created by a local grandmother. Please share it! The petition can be found here: http://chn.ge/2xgBgvo
The petition will be sent to Hempfield's Superintendent Dr. Christopher Adams, and Verizon's local Harrisburg, PA attorney, James Strong. Dr. Adams has stated in public meetings that he does not believe there are any potential health risks due to the cell towers. Help us enlighten him so that he understands the potential health risks!

Recent news stories from these cell tower sites include 
"Cellphone towers and schools are a dangerous mix" By DR. GENEVIEVE ABRAVANEL
"Hempfield faces scrutiny for approved cell tower site behind Rohrerstown Elementary School"
"Smith is one of 50 or so residents who have publicly expressed health and safety concerns over the approved site. Despite conflicting studies on the potential health hazards of cell towers and radio frequency radiation, the group says the mere possibility of their kids suffering from long-term health issues should be enough to halt the project."

The group also has a website: https://www.hempfieldsdcelltowers.com
On this site, there is a report written by Franklin and Marshall (F&M) College's Dr. Joshua Booth. Read it here. 

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Friday, September 29, 2017

US Government Finds Cell Phone and Cell Tower Radiation Damages DNA

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Friday, September 8, 2017

French Polynesia Launches Major Public Awareness Campaign To Reduce Exposure To Cell Phones, Wi-Fi and Other Electromagnetic Radiation Sources


French Polynesia Launches Major Public Awareness Campaign
To Reduce Exposure To Cell Phones, Wi-Fi and Other Electromagnetic Radiation Sources
Prohibition placed on advertising cell phones to children under 14 and wireless internet banned from nursery school.



This information is From the Environmental Health Trust Press Release

French Polynesia has launched a major public awareness campaign to raise awareness about how to reduce exposure to the electromagnetic radiation from electronics, cell phones, and wireless devices as part of the country’s new law to reduce citizens’ exposures to electromagnetic radiation exposure. Legislation the country adopted in 2016 prohibits advertising of cell phones to children under 14, prohibits advertising cell phones without showing how to minimize radiation exposure to the head, prohibits wireless in nursery schools, limits wireless in primary schools and reduces exposures to workers.

The multimedia campaign of the French Polynesia Directorate-General for the Digital Economy (DGEN) includes video and graphics promoted on television, radio, and social networking platforms.

DGEN’s video “Electromagnetic Waves: Good Practices” visually depicts how common household electronics – such as a Wi-Fi router, video game console, and wireless baby monitor – emit microwave electromagnetic radiation like cell phone emissions. The campaign also addresses the electromagnetic radiation from electricity-powered alarm clocks and appliances.

A “Best Practices Guide” provides specific recommendations to reduce electromagnetic radiation in order to “protect children and youth.”

  • Prohibition of advertising that promotes the sale or use of a cell phone to children under fourteen years old. Advertising should clearly and legibly show the limiting of exposure to the head. An offender is liable to a fine not exceeding 8,900,000 F CFP.
  • Cell phones may not be marketed without an accessory that limits exposure to the head.
  • Recommendations to limit head exposure and SAR levels should be readable and intelligible.
  • Wireless is prohibited in nursery schools and spaces dedicated to “reception, rest and activities of children under three years of age.”
  • Wireless should be turned to OFF in primary school unless specifically in use for digital activities.
  • The government is implementing measurement and monitoring of levels of public exposure to electromagnetic fields throughout the country of French Polynesia.

Summary of Recommendations to Reduce Wireless Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Radiation (Best Practices Guide)
  • Children under 15 are advised to not use cell phones.
  • Distance the phone away from the head.
  • Make voice calls with a headset to reduce exposure to the brain.
  • Move the mobile device away from electronic implants (pacemaker, Insulin pump, neuro-stimulator, etc.). A mobile device near the implantation area may interfere with the operation of a medical device.
  • Do not call in areas of bad reception.
  • Avoid carrying your phone in your pants pocket.
  • Prefer texting SMS instead of voice calls.
  • The base of the home cordless phone emits radiation constantly, so keep it at a distance and use loudspeaker.
  • When indoors, prefer to connect to networks outside the building by using your device near a window.
  • Distance the phone away from the head after dialing, as wave emission can be the strongest at that time.
  • Avoid calling during high-speed travel (in cars or other vehicles) as the phone must emit at full-power to connect successively with different antennas to maintain the connection.
  • Place yourself at least 1.50 m from your Wi-Fi box or router, and turn it off overnight. If you are ready to part with it, opt for cable (ethernet) connections (with Wi-Fi capability turned off) or very high-speed fiber optic if possible.

Summary of Recommendations to Reduce ELF Electromagnetic Radiation
  • Do not charge your mobile phone near the bed, distance it as far away as possible.
  • Maximize distance from the front of the television or computer monitor.
  • Have a professional check home electrical wiring.
  • Turn off electricity where no device or appliance is in use.
  • Place the wireless baby monitor at least 2 meters (about 6.5 feet) distance from the baby and never in the crib or bed.
  • Buy a new microwave oven every five years. Always distance yourself and others at least 1 meter away from the oven and unplug the oven when not using it.
  • Distance yourself and others at least 1 to 1.5 meters (3 to 4.5 feet) away from induction stovetop or any appliance capable of generating electromagnetic waves such as your refrigerator.
  • Install the electrical panel and large electrical equipment away from rooms and living areas.
  • Turn off electrical appliances (by switching off power) when they are not in use, rather than putting them to sleep. This is also a gesture in favor of the environment and your budget.

Workplace Environment
  • Suppression or reduction of risk:
Select equipment or processes that emit less intense electromagnetic fields, taking account of the work to be carried out. Use other working methods leading to less exposure to electromagnetic fields.
  • Collective protection:
Establish technical or organizational measures to reduce the emission of electromagnetic fields (shielding, distance, locking, etc.).
  • Access control:
Places where the electromagnetic field exceeds regulatory thresholds must be marked, labeled, barred, or marked on the ground in order to limit or control access.

All multimedia resources are officially provided in both French and Tahitian.

Public Education Video “Good Practices with Electromagnetic Waves”




NEWS ARTICLES
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Testimony to Anne Arundel City Council and School Board on Milestone Cell Tower

Shady Side Parents Testified to the County Council and To the School Board This Month
Watch the strong opposition to the proposed Milestone Communications  cell tower on an elementary school below.

Go to Safe Schools Youtube playlist on Shady Side Elementary here to watch all testimony
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Milestone Community Meeting on Cell Tower for Shady Side Elementary School

Milestone Community Meeting on Cell Tower for Shady Side Elementary School
Please watch the meeting in full here as parents protest behind Len Forkas, Milestone President. Below are several videos on the meeting We recommend watching all of them.







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"Education Not Radiation" Shady Side Community Creates Signs To Protest Milestone Communications Tower


Shady Side Community Creates Signs To Protest Milestone Communications Tower  to be placed on Elementary School .
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Saturday, September 2, 2017

HERE IS HOW I LEARNED THE DANGERS OF CELL TOWERS AT SCHOOLS

HERE IS HOW I LEARNED THE DANGERS OF CELL TOWERS AT SCHOOLS


Shady Side Parent Switches Sides on Cell Tower at Child's School

I thought I was in favor of the tower. Better cell service, money for our school, win-win, right? One thing that did concern me is the cancer risk in children near the tower. That’s pretty important, and I wanted to know for sure. So I did what I always do, research the topic, find out the facts, and make my own decision. So I sent the kids to their grandparents for the weekend, and got to work; 48 hours of research with a sleep break. What I found scared the hell out of me. I’d like to share it with you, so that you can make a truly educated decision. It’s an extremely complicated issue, but here is the short version:

Milestone says the tower poses no health risk to the children and surrounding community. They say the FCC, the American Cancer Society and the World Health Organization have deemed it safe, and that there are no studies to suggest a cancer risk. The tower will be well within FCC standards.

Well, partially true, partially not. All of these statements are true, if this were still 1985. How many towers were up then?

The RF radiation standards were put in place by the FCC in 1985, were never meant to address cell towers as we have today, and the studies done then deal strictly with “thermal” effects. So great, we are in no danger from thermal effects. HOWEVER, much more recently, studies into the “non-thermal” effects have been done. And there is no shortage of those studies. It is a very rapidly expanding research field, and the science being conducted today does NOT point to its safety.  

On their website, the American Cancer Society website cites a lot of studies proving RF safety, but states this about its research:
“Very few human studies have focused specifically on cellular phone towers and cancer risk.”

The Federal Communications Commission website admits this about non-thermal effects:
"It is generally agreed that further research is needed to determine the generality of such effects and their possible relevance, if any, to human health."
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The World Health Organization is currently organizing research into this area for a new determination on RF. Many of their own scientists have recently spoken out claiming that current medical research is proving that RF radiation is dangerous, cancer-causing, and that developing children are more biologically susceptible to this type of radiation.

Doesn’t sound like the agencies, that are supposed to assure us of tower safety, as are very sure themselves. And there is so much more.

MANY high level agencies have recently expressed concerns about the inadequacies of the FCC's current standards on cell tower radiation. The EPA DISAGREES with these standards and NOW classifies it “PROBABLE human carcinogen.” The California Medical Association issued a resolution stating that FCC standards are “INADEQUATE to protect human health” and that “peer reviewed research has demonstrated ADVERSE biological effects.” An article by The International Journal of Cancer Prevention concluded that there was a significantly HIGHER rate of cancer near a cell phone transmitter station. It states “The proportion of newly developing cancer cases is significantly higher among patients that live within 400 meters of a cell phone transmitter when compared with the general population.” Dr. Neil Cherry, PhD Biophysicist in New Zealand, wrote a 120 page review of 188 scientific studies. He said, “The radiation causes cells to change in a way that makes them cancer forming. To claim there is no adverse effect from phone towers flies in the face of a large body of evidence.”

There are thousands of scientists, researchers, and biophysicists worldwide that now believe cell towers are cancer causing, have the research and data to prove it, and are screaming for their governments to stop and reevaluate this issue before the harm that is to come. Based on the latest scientific research, FIFTEEN other countries have recently reduced their RF standards to hundreds of thousands of times lower than the current US FCC standard. We are currently now among the least protected in the world. 

I kept digging, and the more I found, the more I felt that I had not originally been given enough information to make an informed decision. Now, armed with more facts, I can’t imagine anyone accepting such a high risk for their children. Besides leukemia and various cancers, studies also show children developing ADHD, memory problems, sleep disturbances, and behavioral problems from being near this type of radiation. 

It was enough to make me change my mind. The risk is too high, a huge amount of credible, current scientific research is proving it. I ask simply that you become better educated. Ten years from now, will you wish you had?

By a parent at Shady Side Elementary School 
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