Cellular One Aids Fight on Fires in Montana; As the Fires Rage On, Cellular One Comes to the Rescue With Wireless Communications for Fire Fighters, Red Cross and Police.Business/High Tech Editors BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 25, 2000 Western Wireless (Nasdaq:WWCA WWCA Western Wireless Corporation (stock symbol) WWCA Western Washington Center for the Arts ), doing business as Cellular One(R) all across Montana, has provided over 250 cellular phones and pagers to emergency workers battling the Montana fires. Cellular One has donated thousands of airtime minutes, over 25,000 minutes per day are used by just the fire crews in western Montana
Western Montana is the western region of the state of Montana, United States. Western Montana is usually considered to be administered by the Missoulian, and the city of Missoula; Billings alone. The huge increase in airtime usage has put a strain on the cellular system in Montana, but Cellular One crews monitor the sites continually and continue to provide portable cell sites to areas not normally covered so that additional phones could be used for emergency communications. The Cellular One technical teams have also added additional radios to existing cell sites so that the huge increase in call volumes will not strain the system. For several weeks now, extreme dry conditions, sparked by lightning and high temperatures, have ignited fires across western states like Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico New Mexico, state in the SW United States. At its northwestern corner are the so-called Four Corners, where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah meet at right angles; New Mexico is also bordered by Oklahoma (NE), Texas (E, S), and Mexico (S). , Oregon, Utah, Wyoming and Colorado. Montana currently has 27 major fires burning nearly 650,000 acres at last count -- Governor Marc Racicot Marc F. Racicot (IPA pronunciation: [ˈɹɑsko] like "Roscoe") (born July 24, 1948) is a United States Republican Party politician and lobbyist. He was the governor of Montana from 1993 until 2001. has closed over 19 million acres of federal and state land to public use due to the fires. Heavy wood smoke lies so densely in some areas that residents are forced to wear masks or stay indoors and drivers must use their car lights during the day just to see ahead within the two blocks of visibility. Western Wireless Corporation is a leading provider of communications in the Western United States Noun 1. western United States - the region of the United States lying to the west of the Mississippi River West Santa Fe Trail - a trail that extends from Missouri to New Mexico; an important route for settlers moving west in the 19th century . The company owns and operates wireless cellular phone systems marketed under the Cellular One(R) national brand name in 19 states west of the Mississippi River Mississippi River River, central U.S. It rises at Lake Itasca in Minnesota and flows south, meeting its major tributaries, the Missouri and the Ohio rivers, about halfway along its journey to the Gulf of Mexico. . Through the 2nd quarter 2000, Western Wireless d/b/a/ Cellular One(R) was providing service to nearly 930,500 customers. For more information on Cellular One, please visit their website at www.cellularonewest.com. |
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