Human life and safety should be the number one priority when considering the cell tower. The proposed cell tower will be located adjacent to a boat storage building at Sailfish Marina. There is no FALL ZONE around the tower as is required by the tower's design standards. See previous post.
There is no fence around the tower to protect it from the fork lift maneuvering gasoline laden boats around it and having an accident.
The tower will be built in a hurricane area. During a storm, wind borne and/or water borne debris could impact the tower and all or part of the tower could fail. Falling debris from the tower could strike the boat storage shed and the electrical equipment housed inside and ignite the stored boats. They are filled with fuel and the resulting fire would be of staggering proportions.
Remember the previous fire at Sailfish Marina? The noxious fumes, the black smoke that invaded our homes? If not check it out here WPTV News story. The dean of the Chapman School of Seamanship who witnessed the fire thought that if the boat storage shed had gone up it would have been a major disaster.
Martin Fire and Rescue Chief William Schobel stated that the thousands of gallons of fuel, fiberglass which burns at a very high temperature, winds, and poor access to the fire site were all issues in fighting the fire which involved just three boats.
The conditions at the marina have not changed. What would happen if scores of boats in the storage shed should ignite? The catastrophe that was so narrowly avoid last time because the boats were at the water edge, may not be avoided because the ignition source would be the adjacent 120 ft. cell tower and its electrical equipment.
Why is Martin County permitting such a proposal as this to go forward? Why are our lives, the environment, and our homes worth less than a Cell Tower?
Read my next posting on how Martin County reacted to the biofuels fire.
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