Helicopter Down - S Rampart Range Rd - Sedalia Area

Hearing comms on Doug Co FGRND3, Unicom (123.025), and Airlife/Lifeguard dispatch. Sounds like the crash site is 3/4 mi NE of NF-327 and S Rampart Range Rd in Pike Natl Forest. Lifeguard helicopter has found the crash site, have landed about 1 MI to the E and crew is hiking in.

Edit: just looked at map, more like Palmer Lake area than Sedalia. Not sure whose helo it is yet. .

Blackhawk with hoist ability enroute from Ft Carson. Sounds like two serious injuries, and two ambulatory on-scene. Hearing reference to a freq, called AirGuard. . anyone know what that is? 168.625?

Edit: also lots of activity on VFIRE 21 (154.280)

Military Blackhawk helicopter crashes in Douglas County
http://kdvr.com/2015/09/02/reports-military-helicopter-down-in-douglas-county/
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/new...ard-landing-in-elbert-county-fort-carson-says

Two photos of the crash
https://twitter.com/johnferrugia7/status/639215807030034434
https://twitter.com/9NEWS/status/639216874497159168

Sounds like things under control, the two injured were hoisted by another Ft Carson Blackhawk that is transporting them directly to the hospital.

121.50 was used, so they may be calling it Air Guard.

county said:

Blackhawk with hoist ability enroute from Ft Carson. Sounds like two serious injuries, and two ambulatory on-scene. Hearing reference to a freq, called AirGuard. . anyone know what that is? 168.625?

Edit: also lots of activity on VFIRE 21 (154.280)

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I could hear at least one of the Blackhawk's intermittently on 123.025 while driving home through Lakewood, Wheatridge & Arvada, those things must have powerful VHF radios/antenna's. I'm kinda surprised I could hear it at all (although my 49" Larsen certainly helped). Pretty crazy scene, they were having trouble with SAT phone reception.

Update: they just put out a small fire at the crash scene.

county said:

Blackhawk with hoist ability enroute from Ft Carson. Sounds like two serious injuries, and two ambulatory on-scene. Hearing reference to a freq, called AirGuard. . anyone know what that is? 168.625?

Edit: also lots of activity on VFIRE 21 (154.280)

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I agree with Mick. "Guard" is a name for 121.5 MHz in aviation, so I would imagine that the Castle Rock Chief wanted that frequency. He was pretty knowledgeable of what was available. The coordination for a common channel was a little bit all over the place, especially when Ft Carson got involved.

Pretty interesting though, it's rare to have a medical helicopter crew be first due to an incident. Also interesting that the military was able to scramble medevac and get their crew out before any other significant resources arrived.

What wasn't so impressive was the inability to determine the location initially, especially since another helicopter was circling the crash site shortly after it happened. Either whoever that was in other chopper really needs to learn how to read a map or the people working the tower need to work on their aircraft locating skills. Elbert County is not heavily wooded and is certainly not west of I-25.

County, What is Douglas Co FGRND D3? I know of and have heard Douglas OPS-3.

Thanks

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County, What is Douglas Co FGRND D3? I know of and have heard Douglas OPS-3.

Thanks

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Well it looks like I am working with an old program in my scanner as I had TGID 1057 (DEC) marked as 'Douglas Co Fgrnd-3' which I believe was an old tag on RadioReference. I see 1057 is now tagged Ops-3. In the future I will try to include the TGID also, to avoid any confusion. Thanks for the clarification question.

I had found in the Douglas Co Wiki several conventional frequencies for fire dispatch and fire ground. The first FG was tagged DougCoFD4. 856.26250 293 NAC. Thus I was curious as to what you had referenced since I heard traffic on OPS 3, 5 and 7 the other day during the tanker/wild land incident in Larksburg area

Thank you for the clarification.