200-foot AM radio tower disappears, halting Alabama station broadcast | "There's wires everywhere, and it's gone."
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200-foot AM radio tower disappears, halting Alabama station broadcast | "There's wires everywhere, and it's gone."::"There's wires everywhere, and it's gone."
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Haven't looked up the station's license to see how much power they could have been pushing, but if I were the "authorities", I'd definely be checking local hospitals for records of anyone coming in with mild to severe [RF] burns. With [low frequency] AM stations, the tower itself is basically the other half of the antenna electrically... probably lit them up like a Christmas tree.
With am... Either you're cooked dead or not. 20-50kW of power...
They probably turned off the transmitter. Because that's gone too.
HIPAA does have some exceptions to allow giving relevant information for crimes that occurred on their premises, but I'm not sure there's anything that could be applicable here.