bluesman905
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TPS North: St.Clair & Mt.Pleasant, Two story home has exploded and been reduced to rubble. Enbridge Gas employee on the way to Sunnybrook with serious burns. Fighting working fire to exposed home .
How is that possible ? Which news ? I heard fire say something like "we will contact the news station". I thought maybe they were getting to close to the scene.bluesman905 said:News crew are broadcasting and being heard over the fire communications.
Not sure how it's possible but it was interupting fire communications. I could hear a newscaster giving a report and thought it was just a fluke but then i heard firefighters asking dispatch if they could hear it also. Dispatch said they recognised they reporter and would call the station. The newscast I heard went out to "Christeen", sounds like (Bentley) CFTO?pathalogical said:How is that possible ? Which news ? I heard fire say something like "we will contact the news station". I thought maybe they were getting to close to the scene.
What frequency ? Someone posted CFTO was on one of those iDENT systems, which is not monitorable. I remember because I asked if their chopper was on the same system and was told they are.bluesman905 said:Not sure how it's possible but it was interupting fire communications. I could hear a newscaster giving a report and thought it was just a fluke but then i heard firefighters asking dispatch if they could hear it also. Dispatch said they recognised they reporter and would call the station. The newscast I heard went out to "Christeen", sounds like (Bentley) CFTO?
pathalogical said:What frequency ? Someone posted CFTO was on one of those iDENT systems, which is not monitorable. I remember because I asked if their chopper was on the same system and was told they are.
Toronto Fire Active Incidents page still shows 38 vehicles on the call at 15:24. Earlier, they requested the Fire Marshall to attend, but is coming from Sarnia or Sudbury, should be here at about 1700 hrs...weather permitting.
Yeah, you won't hear the news reporting on themselves on how they may have interfered with fire communications !exkalibur said:It wasn't North Command TAC3, it was South Command, TAC3. You likely were picking up South Tactical 3 on the North tower (which it was on).
I had thought at first that a UHF radio was messing with the TFS Fireground repeater (possibly CityTV), but they weren't using any of the FG channels at this scene.
My best guess would be that one of the on-scene reporters were using an IFB to do a live hit which somehow ended up mixing with a FF's radio. I would hazard a guess in saying that the IFB was in very close proximity of a FF who was transmitting at the time.
Either way, I imagine someone got a really nasty phone call...
exkalibur said:My best guess would be that one of the on-scene reporters were using an IFB to do a live hit which somehow ended up mixing with a FF's radio. I would hazard a guess in saying that the IFB was in very close proximity of a FF who was transmitting at the time.
pathalogical said:Also, last night around 20:00 I heard some comms on Joint Emerg Service 1, sounded like it was related to the explosion, some news crew were approaching the scene and were eventually directed away by poilce. The crew "said" they were allowed to get close, but the command centre said they did not give permission.