The purpose of HR 2289, currently being considered in the U.S. Congress, is to remove all local control over the rollout of 5G cell towers. There are many reasons that unregulated 5G (which stands for 5thgeneration), will bring devastation. It will greatly increase the risk of out of control fires, and cause very adverse health impacts, for which there is extensive documentation.

Unless you have been paying very close attention to the rollout of these small cells (short for cell towers), you may not be aware that they can allow for small-refrigerator-size cabinets of heavy equipment, filled with highly flammable material (diesel or propane fuel, or lithium batteries), to be hung perilously from utility poles—or placed on the ground—closely spaced throughout our neighborhoods. In news reports of a wildfire sweeping through Santa Rosa, it was noted that propane generators were exploding everywhere.

Senator Dianne Feinsteinhas warned about the risks of wildfires caused by overloading utility poles with these small cell installations, asshe wrote in this OpEd:

“Wireless companies won’t bear the responsibility when things go wrong. Attaching 5G cells that are the size of mini-refrigerators to city poles will make poles less stable. When poles come down, they pose significant risk for physical harm, property damage, blackout and even wildfires in dry regions. And under FCC rules, cities and residents would be on the hook for that damage.”

We already know that overloading utility poles can be the cause of a wildfire that can destroy a community, as happened inMalibu in 2007. Those poles in Malibu didn’t even contain the possibility of the ticking-time-bomb fuels that the 4G/5G installations may contain. What if there’s an earthquake, car accident, or period of high winds?

Even before the rollout of these hundreds of thousands of new “mini cell towers” throughout the U.S., cell towers have often been the source of fires.

You can see numerous articles about dangers of cell towershere.

Also extremely concerning regarding fire dangers, is the testimony by fire safety expert Susan Dana Foster, at an April 19, 2021 hearing of the California Assembly Committee on Energy, Utilities and Communications (concerning SB 556). This fire safety expert testified that the telecom companies have often managed to evade electrical codes at the state, county and local level.

Even more alarming, firefighters cannot even directly fight the fires using water at small cell installations, because they are electrical fires and they would risk electrocution. They have to wait for the power to be shut off, which can take from ten minutes to two hours. Would you want a small cell installation burning out of control outside a child’s bedroom for up to two hours?

Add to that the very high fire risk caused by the smart meters that the telecoms quite often place on the 4G/5G installations.

Source: Global Research