disaster. they were unable to pass along useful information to panicked callers. i would have to say 9/11 was overwhelmed. and 911 was overwhelmed. should is it have been aepd? yes, it probably should have but it wasn t. to make matters worse, the police department, the port authority, and the fire department couldn t share vital information. [ sirens ] the radios we didn t have a channel where we could communicate with the police department on. the way in which the fire department and the police department communicate is different because generally they have different missions. the best answer is they should have radios that are interoperable so that an emergency, both could be switched on to the same channel. in the interim those radios do not exist