DP 04 Drill

[Dispatcher308]

****THIS IS A DRILL****
There is a Drill Today in the Inner Harbor that is being run by the Coast Guard . It is supposed to be a Crusie Ship @ Seigart that has had an Explosion on Board & it will go from there. Listen Folks keep an Eye on your Frequencies and look for unused ones

****THIS IS A DRILL****

Thanx

 

[doctordave]

Also......Coast Guard's routine marine warning broadcast on VHF 16 a few minutes ago indicated that the drill will be run from 08:00 - 16:00 today........had figured something was going on - there was a lot of chatter on heli-com (123.025) regarding some major activity in the Balt Harbor.

 

[mlevin]

Soa far the Talkgroups in use are....

2416-B5 FG OPS
5136-12A Citywide
5136-11A Spec Events
5376-2B Foxtrot/laterel
2256-B11 FD-PD Common

Anyone have anything else to add.

 

[doctordave]

Thanks for the TG's, Mo....does 5376 appear to purely be a Foxtrot TG....or does it seem to be shared w/ motor units as the database suggests? I've seen some postings indicating that perhaps the motor units operate off district TGs and not exclusively off separate TGs. Any ideas?

Dave

 

[doctordave]

By the way....anyone copying Coast Guard activity? From Northern Balt Co, I'm not getting any activity on the usual VHF freqs nor on a handful of CG UHF freqs (and normally I can copy traffic)....maybe they are staying low-power for the drill? Nothing on 151.205 or 39.22 for DNR either. ??

 

[Dispatcher308]

Doc,

DNR is Participating they are here at work may be using direct Frequencies

 

[Dispatcher308]

Run Down

Of Who is Participating (Who is here at MEMA staffing EOC)

State or Federal Agencies only

DNR-NRP
MDE
MSP
MEMA
DHMH
MIEMMS
SHA-MDOT
Transportation Authority
Coast Guard
Maryland Homeland Security
DMIL for Maryland

EDIT 1: Mass Transit Administration and Dept. of General Services

 

[TinEar]

Nathan, you've reminded me that after this exercise is done, it might be a good thing to put our heads together and design a bank of frequencies that would probably be used during an emergency. Of course we don't know which county/city activity would be included until it happens but all the state and/or federal agencies could be grouped into a bank. It might just be a worthwhile bit of preparation for these uncertain times we live in. I'm prepared in other ways for a disaster and think I should be prepared with communications needs also. Because of your position, I think you have some valuable information you could share with us. Any thoughts on this?

 

[mlevin]

Thanks for the TG's, Mo....does 5376 appear to purely be a Foxtrot TG....or does it seem to be shared w/ motor units as the database suggests? I've seen some postings indicating that perhaps the motor units operate off district TGs and not exclusively off separate TGs. Any ideas?

Dave

I don't know this is the first time I ever heard activity on this TG. I often hear the motorcycle units on Citywide. I can't remeber ever hearing them on a district channel. Although I'm sure if they needed to they would switch over.

 

[bear105]

Nathan, you've reminded me that after this exercise is done, it might be a good thing to put our heads together and design a bank of frequencies that would probably be used during an emergency. Of course we don't know which county/city activity would be included until it happens but all the state and/or federal agencies could be grouped into a bank. It might just be a worthwhile bit of preparation for these uncertain times we live in. I'm prepared in other ways for a disaster and think I should be prepared with communications needs also. Because of your position, I think you have some valuable information you could share with us. Any thoughts on this?

I'm all for that...An emergency bank with Nationwide, Federal, and State common and emergency freqs. But for the county specific stuff, we might just want to list em, as many on the trunk systems.
Also, I think we should include utilities. Especially, for those events that the power goes out...

 

[NINN27]

to all:
im working on a local/state/federal emergency P96 file (sorry to anyone who doesnt own the 96). if you would like to list all the frequencies you have identified... or email them to MD042@aol.com , i will be more than happy to incorporate them into the file.