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DOMINGO:Was it here in the island or some other place?
<br />WANG OKUDA: No, this is the International Association of Firefighters. They voted in
<br />2004 to voice its opposition to cell phone towers and antennas being placed on and around fire
<br />stations. They want proof that there isn’t a safety issue and have asked for the construction and
<br />placement or any other tower antennaes not be built until a study can be conducted. But I think
<br />there’s limited funding. So even when I checked on it this morning, you know, it is clearly
<br />there. And, but again, you know, I tried to talk to my immediate next door neighbors. I don’t
<br />think they really read between the lines a lot of times when these letters come to their doors. So,
<br />and it’s only after I tried to research that I know there’s so much studies. Did I answer your
<br />question?
<br />DOMINGO: Has it been thoroughly determined for sure that it causes some damage?
<br />WANG OKUDA: I think there is a lot -. I mean if you have, if you read through it -. I mean
<br />even I brought even more studies today. But, you know, there is a link of cancer, right, that I
<br />showed to you. So, of course, long-term care, I mean long-term health effects and studies, they
<br />take time, they take money to fund. I think second-hand smoke it took a very long time for us to
<br />even know the link. And then I think with autism, for example, I mean, it used to be like 1 in
<br />10,000 babies had autism in the late 1970’s. In 2002, it was 1 in 150 babies. And then in, right
<br />now it’s 1 in 50 babies that are born.
<br />So, you know, if you look at it, this is all from, because there’s more of these towers now in the
<br />past 10 years. Then can you imagine in like 18 more years how, you know, when these babies
<br />become adults what kind of society will we have? You know, we can’t adequately protect them
<br />now. How much money are we going to be spending to educate and provide a safe environment
<br />for them? You know we can’t just lock up people with autism and say, well, they’re going to
<br />shoot people on campus. That’s not going to be a very good policy and law to have. You know,
<br />so, anyway, that’s what I have to say about that.
<br />DOMINGO: You’re familiar that there is a Federal regulation that the denial of any
<br />placement of cellar towers, that these reasons that you are bringing out cannot be used as a basis
<br />for denial for putting up a cell tower?
<br />WANG OKUDA: Are you referring to the Telecommunications Act of 1996?
<br />DOMINGO: Yes.
<br />WANG OKUDA: Yes. I think, you know, that particular, that law got passed when the study
<br />that was done like earlier, you know, when they were doing on the thermal, like the thermal
<br />effects of radiation. But, I mean, that’s basically like saying is the radiation going to like heat up
<br />your body, you know, like cause a burn. And we know that that’s not. I mean it’s going to be
<br />very difficult for that. But there are, you know, the danger of it isn’t that it will burn up your
<br />body, you know, like cook up the meat as you microwave, but like what it would do to your
<br />brain. Or on a cellular level how does it affect your RNA and DNA? And that’s the thing that, I
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