Montgomery Co tests/condx red

[Bote]

I heard some nastified testing between two locations and then an announcement that Montgomery fire is operating on condition red about 22:30 tonight.

The announcement sounded like crappy DC fire's setup, where the audio that comes out on 154.16 was repeated from a digital receiver rather than coming from the clean-sounding console.

"AECC" was also mentioned. Could this be an Alternate Emergency Control Center? It was the kind of thing where they were establishing communications between two locations.

 

[DPM2]

Not sure about Montgomery Fire/Rescue, but heard similar broadcast on MCPD earlier in the evening that the MDC's were completely down.

 

[mce911fr]

Mont Co Outage

I work for Mont Co Fire/Rescue 9-1-1, we lost all power to the facility including the radio systems, neither of the generators worked and the UPS system only had 1 1/2 life. The AECC is our back up center. So we moved there until power was restored. Still have both generators out, and are using one on a tractor trailer for now.

 

[maus92]

Geez, both backup generators failed? Aren't they tested regularly? This is not very reassuring...

CA
Annapolis

 

[bradam2001]

EAI installed the Generators when new ECC was open,
At the time I was not working for them,
EAI does all the Electrical work for the county.
When the Generators arn't working we are on stand by.
Of course I live 10 min from ECC