Cell Tower Safety Risks Fires and Collapse

Cell Tower Fires, Collapse and Criminal Activity

Cell towers present safety risks when proposed at schools and in neighborhoods. Cell towers are industrial machinery and have series risks.

In addition, worker safety has been an ongoing safety issue. If a cell tower is proposed near a school or home, please ensure an engineer has evaluated the site and mitigated all hazards., Get the evaluation in a sealed report.

“Police say at least ten people, including seven children, were killed in Bekasi on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, this morning after a truck crashed into a telecommunications tower near a bus stop and toppled the structure in a busy area where school children were on the street during a morning recess.

The children’s ages ranged from 7 to 11 years old.”

The truck toppled the tower that fell across the street. Photo: Wireless Estimator Google Maps screenshot.

Read Cell tower collapse kills seven children outside of a school in Jakarta | Wireless Estimator

Fires

Cell companies’ (Verizon, At&T, and Next G): Overloaded utility poles with cell equipment resulted in poles snapping and igniting fire in Malibu and California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) approved a $12 million settlement involving Verizon (for total settlement of $60 million),
Verizon evaded its duty to rebuild Malibu Canyon utility poles as required in its Settlement Agreement, ‘dumping the Malibu Canyon utility pole remediation on Frontier Communications,’
Verizon not computing wind or weight loads on aging poles when adding cell towers per CPUC investigation. “The Public Utilities Commission discovered neither the power company nor the wireless firms are computing wind or weight loads on aging wooden poles that in recent years have been increasingly burdened by new, heavy fiber optic cables and wind-catching phone antennas.”