He was correct to say this. When I was a volunteer EMT in Virginia, between six and seven pm when the county was transitioning between the paid crew and the volunteers, the tones dropped for a head-on collision on Rt 1. All the paid units heard it and turned around. All county volunteers heard it and rushed to their stations.
The result was that my station went out of service for nearly three hours, because both of our ambulances responded independently. Because we'd switched to an alternate channel, the second unit didn't hear that I'd already picked up the ambulance and responded.
It was chaos. People and ambulances everywhere, stations left unattended for calls, no command and control. Both out units were trashed; we were lucky we didn't get any other calls for awhile. As Jeff Foxworthy would say, "It was pandelerium!"
The debrief wasn't pretty.
I just don't understand how MSM can continually beat this drum about the Federal Government not sending help soon enough. From what I can tell, every state had to have a disaster plan on record by a certain date or they wouldn't get money from Homeland Security. That's what the Emergency Management Assistance Compact is for, to spell out the responsibilities of the state requesting assistance and the state that is giving assistance. That means a lot of the MSM consumers, both in state and local government and those who volunteer as firemen,etc. know that it is the state that needs to tell another state what they need in terms of help. Having read your posts for some time now I know you know the inside scoop about this. I'm just venting. It's frustrating!