Black Forest Wildfire

[jimmnn]

Has anyone received the new comm plan since the Type 1 federal team took over this morning at 6am?

Jim<

 

[nd5y]

Does Colorado post IAPs or 205s online anyplace?

 

[Moosemedic]

Retask the Scanner?

There's hardly any radio traffic, can the feed provider re-task the scanner please?

 

[zerg901]

report of 360 homes burnt up - 2 pm edt

if anyone can confirm any more freqs, it might be useful when the next big one hits

sorry about giving the wrong freq yesterday, but that is what they said on the radio, it came over the scanner feed loud and clear - at other times they were having some radio problems - the message would get all funky, and someone would say "you went digital" - most messages seemed to be ok, but maybe 5% were unreadable

 

[robynabc]

Can you tell me what feed you are listening to?

 

[jimmnn]

Can you tell me what feed you are listening to?

El Paso County Fire / EMS

Jim<

 

[jimmnn]

There's hardly any radio traffic, can the feed provider re-task the scanner please?

Would be happy too if anyone can obtain the federal comm plan.

Jim<

 

[nd5y]

Try some of these frequencies
National Incident Radio Support Cache - The RadioReference Wiki
http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?aid=3521

 

[captaincraig44]

Bad timing on the ongoing ten minute reprogramming. They had been talking about the south end of my parent's neighborhood and some encroaching fire before this. Very frustrating.

 

[foxtrot3217]

black forest fire command and control frequency

heard regularly on 168.075 receiving from fort carson with minimal static.

 

[jimmnn]

heard regularly on 168.075 receiving from fort carson with minimal static.

168.075 RX / 170.425 TX is Command 1

Jim<

 

[Moosemedic]

NIRSC

There has been quite a bit of traffic on NIRSC
Command 3
Tac 5
Tac 6

VHF Flight Following had limited use yesterday and the originally posted (122.9250) AM Air to Air hadn't been active Thursday

I have been scanning 2 banks of NIRSC in my HT1550XLS (with Red Battery)

There are 2 different online feeds locally and they seem to have random comms for the area.

More than a few units seem to be carrying both 800 (Colorado DTRS?) and VHF. I have heard Division Supervisors calling their units on both, and having luck on neither. One Engine reported that they only have 800 in the vehicle, and with very few exceptions I have not seen many AA clamshells for the trunked radios, and I'd guess those batteries would drain much faster than the well known King portables.

 

[zerg901]

Report of 2 deaths - civilians found in the garage of their home

Why are federal channels being used on this fire? It is not near federal land. Maybe the mutual aid / incident command scheme worked like this - Black Forest FD >> El Paso County Sheriff >> State Forestry >> Federal Team & Federal Aircraft - everything would be "mutual aid" except for Black Forest FD and El Paso County Sheriff (who would have legal responsibility for protecting the area)

I reckon the NIRSC (National Incident Radio Support Cache?) was requested via an Emergency Management agreement between El Paso County or the State of Colorado and FEMA / DOHS / NIFC

 

[greenthumb]

The NIFC/NIRSC cache has long been an "all hazards/all incident, any public sector entity who needs it can request it" resource. I'm not surprised that it's here at all.

 

[KB1UAM]

Has anyone in the area logged Red Cross/ Ham frequencies?

 

[Mojaveflyer]

Air To Air Freq

I live in Boulder so I cannot monitor active fire aviation frquencies on scene. Tanker base at Metro is usning 123.975 A-G with the tankers. One tanker asked Ops at Metro if 123.075 was active and was told no. The active frequency is 122.925. I cannot confirm this.

I can confirm 122.925 is active and 168.65 active.

 

[kc0kp]

Has anyone in the area logged Red Cross/ Ham frequencies?

146.97 was in use for shelters.100 hz PL. aprs.fi for a lot of the placement of ARES resources. Look up n0drc for location.

 

[kc0kp]

The NIFC/NIRSC cache has long been an "all hazards/all incident, any public sector entity who needs it can request it" resource. I'm not surprised that it's here at all.

And has been for a long time. It was part of the fire departments planning for DNC for a smoking hole contingency.

 

[jimmnn]

Report of 2 deaths - civilians found in the garage of their home

Why are federal channels being used on this fire? It is not near federal land. Maybe the mutual aid / incident command scheme worked like this - Black Forest FD >> El Paso County Sheriff >> State Forestry >> Federal Team & Federal Aircraft - everything would be "mutual aid" except for Black Forest FD and El Paso County Sheriff (who would have legal responsibility for protecting the area)

I reckon the NIRSC (National Incident Radio Support Cache?) was requested via an Emergency Management agreement between El Paso County or the State of Colorado and FEMA / DOHS / NIFC

Federal Channels because a Federal Type 1 IMT took over yesterday morning at 0600hrs.

Also reporting 30% containment and over 400 homes lost.

Jim<

 

[jimmnn]

Black Forest Fire Update: structure loss now at 473 homes destroyed and 17 homes with partial loss.

Jim<