Years ago we had the odd occasion when our ambulance service VHF repeater got struck by lightning, this was a time before mobile phones, we had to work off public phones, patients/neighbours phones and hospital phones. most of the time we just got on with it, but we had the odd time when we were sent to an unconcious patient and arrived at an obvious incorrect address, then a mad scramble to find a phone to get the correct address or control to send another vehicle if quicker...
Mike