BEU Local Net - Which helicopter to where?

[scankid2591]

Was anyone listening to BEU Local Net about 15 minutes ago? Which helicopter just got dispatched? To where?

I caught the freqs they told the helo, though...
Air Tactics - 161.150
Ground - 170.000 (USFS A/G?)

*Correction* Not 161.150... but 169.150 (Air Tactics 2?)

 

[EMSJUNKY]

unknown-- but if the incident is working on federal land, they may be using one of the fed air tactics... maybe a fire in pinnicles or yosemite? let me know if u hear anything

 

[ScannerDude244]

the only helo BEU has is in bear valley just west of us scannkid copter406. It just got back form the big fire in SO Cali today. Copter 902 was takin it's spot when it was gone

http://www.advancedh2o.com/about_aws/body_bear_valley.html

 

[scankid2591]

Hmm... Isn't 406 based in Paicines? Where's 902 from?

 

[BirkenVogt]

CDF helicopters are numbered by the first two digits of the ranger unit separated by a zero. So 205 is from unit number 25 and that is Tehama-Glenn. Therefore 406 is from San Benito-Monterey. I have it listed as Bear Valley.

Now 902 would be from unit number 92 but there is no such unit. I think it is a spare helicopter.

Birken

 

[ScannerDude244]

Hmm... Isn't 406 based in Paicines? Where's 902 from?

yup Pinnacles is in the Bear Valley area. As far as copter902 I don't where it was from it was at the fire here in Soledad last saturday.

 

[scankid2591]

Pinnacles?

I said Paicines... LOL

Now 902 would be from unit number 92 but there is no such unit. I think it is a spare helicopter.

I actually just heard BEU Local Net talking to a Unit 9211...

 

[brushfire21]

Copter Numbering

CDF doesn't operate a copter 902. My suspicion is its a CWN Copter (Call When Needed) or a private contractor supplied copter. CDF does have reserve copters, and what ever unit has that reserve copter puts an "R" after the copter # to designate that its a reserve (copter-104R/copter-205R). Alot of the times on private copters only the last 2-3 letters of the tail number are used, and that is probaly what is happening here.

 

[BirkenVogt]

Actually I think 902 is a spare stationed at McClellan Park here in Sacramento. I hear them flight following with Sacramento ECC on CDF command 1 all the time. That numbering scheme definitely does not fit with the USFS though.

Ah here it is, I found this frequency/unit assignment list from 1990 and it lists a Copter 901 as a "roving spare". So it would stand to reason that it might have changed to 902.

Birken

 

[ScannerDude244]

I actually just heard BEU Local Net talking to a Unit 9211...

that's San Juan Bautista fire or Hollister Fire I know they are 91 and 92

 

[scankid2591]

Two questions:

1. What's the Paicines helo's #?

2. What's close (in relation to city or state/national park) to Bear Valley?

 

[ScannerDude244]

Two questions:

1. What's the Paicines helo's #?

2. What's close (in relation to city or state/national park) to Bear Valley?

1.no helo
2. Pinnacles, Hollister is to south of Bear Valley

 

[scankid2591]

1.no helo
2. Pinnacles, Hollister is to south of Bear Valley

I always thought that there was a CDF helo based in Paicines...

That base is only 12 miles from Paicines. I was somewhat close

Were you listening to BEU today? There were like 3 fires this morning! (But then I went dirtbiking in Santa Nella at like 2 in the afternoon... It was extremely cloudy yet it was 112 degrees... Ouch!)