Over 4,000 homes and businesses between Arlington and Darrington will soon be connected.
DARRINGTON, Wash. — Firefighters need a whole host of tools at their disposal these days. Not just axes and hoses but fiber optics.
That’s something lacking at Darrington’s Fire District Station 38.
“Right now, this whole station is fed by basically a glorified cell phone,” says Chief Joel Johnson.
The station house still depends on DSL or cellular for its internet.
Johnson explained that it could go down in a storm, leaving fire crews without mapping and communications systems.
“It impacts us in the sense
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