Daytona beach shores

[BlueMoon2]

Happy holidays to all!

I saw a Daytona beach shores ladder truck and evac ambulance responding down s Atlantic in Daytona beach shores. How are they dispatched/communicate? I am not seeing any talkgroups specifically for fire side on radios reference. I understand that all public safety personnel for Daytona beach shores are cross trained as firefighters and police officers. I see talkgroups for the police side.
Any insight?

 

[902]

It's the first category of talkgroups just below the frequency plan. Follow the link below. It's there.

Volusia County (EDACS) Trunking System, Volusia County, Florida

Volusia County (EDACS) Trunking System Profile

www.radioreference.com

 

[BlueMoon2]

902, thank you. Just so I understand correctly, you’re saying they fall under volusia county fire services?

 

[chief21]

See note on Volusia County page...

NOTE: All Fire and EVAC ambulance service in Volusia County is now handled by Volusia County 'Central' dispatch, Eastside on FIRE 1 / 02-041 or Westside on FIRE 2 / 02-042.

Eastside & Westside Fire Dispatch repeats on 154.34 MHz

 

[joekodak]

Volusia Co has several municipalities that touch and fire/ems is dispatched from East and West as noted above. Dispatch goes to local units if available and to adjacent muni's if they are closer or the local unit(s) is on a different call already. Dispatchers use the dispatch TGID and will assign a TAC channel that the units use during the call. As big as the Volusia county is, their methods actually work pretty well.

 

[Bote]

Eastside & Westside Fire Dispatch repeats on 154.34 MHz

When I'm driving through Volusia County I find that the VHF high band frequencies (I think there are more than one) can be handy to hear dispatches. The only thing for a scanner is that sometimes they hang on the air for a long time after the dispatch finishes, IIRC.

Might be good for a fixed receiver like an alert monitor or older analog-only scanner. Or maybe hang a cheap SDR dongle on a computer using SDR-Console so you never miss anything.

 

[902]

902, thank you. Just so I understand correctly, you’re saying they fall under volusia county fire services?

Yes, that's right. It's a centralized dispatch system with automatic mutual aid.

 

[902]

When I'm driving through Volusia County I find that the VHF high band frequencies (I think there are more than one) can be handy to hear dispatches. The only thing for a scanner is that sometimes they hang on the air for a long time after the dispatch finishes, IIRC.

Might be good for a fixed receiver like an alert monitor or older analog-only scanner. Or maybe hang a cheap SDR dongle on a computer using SDR-Console so you never miss anything.

They hang until they time-out. If you listen to the Fire 1 and Fire 2 talkgroups, not every set of tones goes out over VHF. Some stations have outboard decoders installed on their radio control stations that decode the analog talkgroup.

 

[BlueMoon2]

So I’m wondering what happens to psap’s like port orange, new Smyrna beach and others that used to dispatch police and fire. Now only police for those areas?

 

[902]

So I’m wondering what happens to psap’s like port orange, new Smyrna beach and others that used to dispatch police and fire. Now only police for those areas?

RCC was dissolved on September 29th, 2011. ALL of the communications operations were placed under the SO. As I stated above, this is a unified system. There is only one PSAP.

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