Yep.The manned fire tower depends on radio communications to relay information and coordinates to fire dispatch, who sends the fire crews. Wouldn't a Carrington event interfere with radios?
Military should have hardened gear, so worst case the Guard and our Reserves may be on-air during that scale of emergency. I don't know modern EMS radio gear well, but my guess is it's not as rad-hard as the best MIL gear.
A lot of the grid will be down, many cell towers don't have much backup power anyway, and I'd expect major Internet outages.
Not just for Carrington - Morse via light, semaphore etc comes up in articles here and there - I get the impression that there is still some military training done even today...... Plan D, E, and F......
My comments may look a little weird in a fire tower thread (or maybe just weird in all threads ), but when you think about how much trouble recent wildfires have been.... and that's with most normal comm systems available/functioning.....
Rgds, D.