andy404ns
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http://firefighterclosecalls.com/fullstory.php?61993
Cliffs: FD responds for suicidal patient. They offer to assist PD with gaining entry and are told to come in, then told to back off. FD again requested by PD and they enter the structure. PD informs FD that patient had a firearm and the suicide was successful. When asked why PD did not inform FD that the subject was armed, PD stated that they did pass that information to dispatch to relay to FD but the dispatcher did not do so:
"An investigation showed that even though procedure calls for all information to be shared by PD and FD, one of the dispatchers made the decision on their own not to notify us about the firearm, citing concerns about people with scanners hearing confidential information over the air."
I don't quite see how stating "subject is armed" is confidential information. Are dispatchers going to stop telling PD units that shots have been fired and instead dispatch it as an unknown call? Granted, FFclosecalls is first hand reports and may be embellished slightly, but that is just ridiculous.
Cliffs: FD responds for suicidal patient. They offer to assist PD with gaining entry and are told to come in, then told to back off. FD again requested by PD and they enter the structure. PD informs FD that patient had a firearm and the suicide was successful. When asked why PD did not inform FD that the subject was armed, PD stated that they did pass that information to dispatch to relay to FD but the dispatcher did not do so:
"An investigation showed that even though procedure calls for all information to be shared by PD and FD, one of the dispatchers made the decision on their own not to notify us about the firearm, citing concerns about people with scanners hearing confidential information over the air."
I don't quite see how stating "subject is armed" is confidential information. Are dispatchers going to stop telling PD units that shots have been fired and instead dispatch it as an unknown call? Granted, FFclosecalls is first hand reports and may be embellished slightly, but that is just ridiculous.