Ocean Co Fireground

[jeff]

At the fire yesterday in New Egypt, they were using "OPS 4". Does anybody know what this is? It's not listed in any databases.

 

[pogbobo]

did you happen to throw the scanner into "open" mode and see a tgid for that?

 

[fineshot1]

I'm guessing you are refering to TG 20608 Fire Zone 4 (West) ??

If so thats the TG for all the stations assigned to that for there ops.

Thats why they refer to it as ops 4.

EDIT: Its not a fireground channel per say but sometimes gets used as such when its not supposed to be.
They realy should use a simplex(talk around) channel for fireground.

 

[DJ88]

I monitored that fire for most of the time they were there, and New Egypt FD was using Fire Zone 4 TG. I don't know if and how they were communicating with the mutual aid units that were there (Burlington County, Jackson Twp., Millstone Twp. and Allentown). I would have thought possibly the New Egypt Conventional Repeater but I didn't hear any activity on it. Maybe they were using some kind of a patch into the Zone 4 TG, if that's possible. The thing is, I don't recall if I heard New Egypt talking to the M/A units or not.

 

[elias1988]

I heard Burlington and Monmouth county units talking to New Egypt units on Fire Zone 4,most of the radio traffic was on Zone 4 even water supply from the tankers were on the same channel.

 

[jeff]

Thanks for the replies, I did hear the traffic on Fire Zone 4. One of my guys at the scene was told they were using OPS 4, which I thought might have been an unknown fireground channel. You're right, they should have gone to FG 1 or 2, OC tends to stay on the trunked system for fireground usage. The chief of Cookstown was coordinating the Burlington units on Burlington TRS NE R-1.

 

[hulka]

what was burning?

 

[DJ88]

A big house.

 

[njscanmaster]

Hi Im a Vol firepolice from New Egypt and we had alot of Fire Alarms that day
We was using Fire Tactical 1 and Fire Zone 4 for the house fire it was a very big house
Everything was lose