Letters

Lots of discussion of a most needed lifesaving device finally getting installed [“A Fight Over a Cellphone Tower Has Created a Rift Among Sagaponack Village Residents,” 27east.com, August 28].

First of all, we will all now be able to call fire, police, ambulances and any and all help and aid workers, where we were not able to before, for auto accidents, fires and medical emergencies. Lives will be saved, and all sorts of emergencies will be responded to in a quick and timely, lifesaving manner.

When I first heard objections, I thought it was because of previous rather ridiculous objections elsewhere from some who were afraid of the towers falling on their homes in a storm or some such. Considering the experience and engineering, a very weak and, in fact, foolish concern.

But then it became clear that many feared “radiation“ from these towers, which are, in fact, placed safely all over the country, on top of schools and hospitals, in church steeples, and on hundreds of apartment buildings.

So, I looked on Google for some information. Numerous answers were as follows or similar:

“Do cellphone towers cause cancer?” Cell phone towers are relatively new, and many people are concerned about whether the RF waves they give off might possibly have health effects. At this time, there’s no evidence that exposure to RF waves from cellphone towers causes any noticeable health effects.

“Do cellphone towers put off radiation?” The radiofrequency EMF given off by cellphones and cellphone towers is a type of nonionizing radiation. It is similar to the type of energy used in AM/FM radio and TV broadcast signals.

And, finally: The amount of radio frequency EMF you are exposed to while using your own cellphone with the same “radiation” depends on many factors, including the strength of the signal, how close you hold the cellphone to your body, how long you use your cellphone.

So let’s just stop the screaming, yelling, posters, phone calls and interference in this lifesaving tower.

Louis Meisel

Sagaponack