ABBEVILLE:   04:15 AM    Henry County Central 911 dispatched Abbeville Fire – EMS, Abbeville Police to a structure fire located at 170 Rockhill CIrcle in Abbeville.

At the time of dispatch Henry County 911 received reports of smoke only visible and no flames. On arrival of fire engines it was quickly identified there was no structure fire. The exhaust fans were established and home ventilated and no working fire.

NOTE:    The radio industry has the emergency communications so messed up. And a large contributor to that is Ryan Buie and Ben with SCI2WAY Communications on South Foster in Dothan. They have the radio system locked in Headland Police, Headland Fire, Abbeville Police, Abbeville Fire and Henry County Sheriff Department. They can not communicate with agencies outside Henry County. SCI2WAY is moving into Barbour County and doing the same. They even have the computer locked where Henry County 911 can not even re-boot the computer without someone from SCI2WAY having to travel to Headland. Most of the time is Ben who lives in Marianna and sub,its a bill for almost $ 400.00.

Houston County Sheriff Department and Geneva County refuses to use SCI2WAY COMMUNICATIONS and drive all the way to Opp Alabama to S & P Communications. Located at 118 Ellis Road in Opp, Al. Contact Number is 334-493-6729.

Houston County Sheriff Department, as I understand, does not even use SCI2WAY Communications for their uniform needs.

They have screwed the interagency communications up. And the interagency communications is vitally important to officer safety and working in conjunction with each other.

This is not the way the founder of SCI2WAY COMMUNICATIONS founded this business. The late James Buie and his wife, works there but Ryan and Ben run the show. But they built the business on providing a quality and responsive service with officer safety in the top of the mind. It hurt Mrs. Buie that Houston County went to Opp, and she and her late husband did a lot for emergency services, but Ben and Ryan are the issues.