This afternoon ABC news at 4 pm says OSHA sent letter to Chicago mayor about sending rookies into fires alone and using “poor” radios where the young firefighter lost his life cause no one could hear his emergency call,….
CFD radios
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Here's the report in it's entirety. Mayday call went out, but it was missed by the Still Chief.
Chicago news: OSHA tells CFD to improve safety after firefighter deaths
After four firefighter deaths last year, the Chicago Fire Department is being told to improve safety.
abc7chicago.com
Was able to dig around their web site to find the story. 19 pages and this is what they got out of it...LOL!
New Chicago OEMC Public Safety - 800 MHz P25
DSDPlus. SDS100 and broadcastify is displaying RID 0 aswell. I was listening cause I was logging RIDs for my RID Spreadsheet I was told a RID 0 is a console patch.
Took a look back at the thread to see which system CFD was on at the time. This was the era when they were constantly switching between UHF and 800. Looking at the time frame, it appears they were on UHF which should have allowed the still chief the opportunity to "scan" Main and Fireground which has been discussed here for the reason they "should" return to UHF. Prior to this, Battalion Chiefs wee issued a second portable to strictly monitor the fireground channel if both radios were on. Unfortunately, many errors were committed and "radio failures" was the least of their problems.
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The media gets every thing wrong,....
They should go back to his training records, THAT would be the story!
