Clark Country Fire Alerting/Misc Questions

[PKnight56]

Hello everyone!

I am the typical vacationer in Vegas this week and am scanning on my G5 and using pulsepoint. Since Im new to the area, I have gathered that Community/AMR/MedicWest are the private transport companies handling 911 calls in the area. Does MedicWest or Clark use the AMB callsigns Im seeing on pulsepoint? I've heard plenty of Community on SNACC but it sounds like they're using three digit identifiers. Based on a previous post, AMR looks like they're on their own system, but I haven't heard anything from MedicWest. I assume the R## callsigns are the Clark County ALS ambulances.

I was also wondering how CCFD alerts? Do they use minitors or just their phones? I was hoping to be able to listen to an alert channel to track their calls but even with all of the SNACC CCFD talkgroups and their conventional channels from the DB I never hear alerts for dispatches. They also rarely mark enroute/onscene verbally, but that's probably handled through their MDT.

If anyone can correct or elaborate I'd appreciate the help, thank you in advance!

 

[E5911]

2 different groups, carreer and volunteer. There are 13 volunteer stations and all are paged over vhf and simulcast to the SNACC.
I've herd they will eventually move full time to the snacc and off vhf, but they have been talking about this for a long time. 76 and 87 are paid and not paged, the MT Charleston FPD is on ip and SNACC. as for Moapa valley im not sure.


Career stations (Vegas, county fire and NLV) are alerted via ip with a vhf back up on 154.370
You can hear morning testing and occasional traffic but not much alerting.
I don't know if the fallback to vhf is automatic if the IP doesn't get a response to the CAD.

I am no expert but I grew up there and come back quite frequently.

As for Pulsepoint, someone else if going to have to chirp in....

 

[911lvnv]

Normal station alerting is done via Locution for the full-time stations. Verbal dispatches are typically only broadcasted on fires or other significant calls. Units use their MCT’s to mark themselves en route, on scene, etc.

As for the AMB units on Pulse Point, those are random phantom units automatically assigned by CAD to private ambulance only calls. Those calls are shipped via a cad-to-cad interface to the appropriate ambulance company and dispatched by their dispatchers.