East Palestine Ohio PD frequency? train derailment

[maus92]

Weird.

 

[n3obl]

Unfortunately in a lot of rural areas you have people who think like that. They scoff at even 16 channels in a radio and don’t believe all personnel on a scene need a radio.

 

[Raff]

Check the Colombiana County Sheriff's Dept Talk group. I know in Ohio there are several Cities/Villages/Townships are dispatched through the Sheriff's Dept.

 

[DualReverse]

I’ve done a little bit of radio work for some small municipalities in Columbiana county. They specifically wanted local dispatch and local tac channel ONLY in their radios and refused any standard interoperability channels or nearby agencies’ channels even if they had permission and an official usage agreement. They thought anything else was too complicated, even with complementary training.

Sorry for the thread bump.

I think you and a couple other folks hit it directly. If the local agency (sheriff, fire chief, police chief, EMA chief) won't embrace interoperability, its a lost cause. I helped a small bit with the statewide fire/EMS mutual aid that came into Columbiana Co- interoperability was a big issue once units got to the area.

One of my biggest comebacks to people who refuse interoperability is this: it would not be tolerated if an officer was as inept with their firearm, a paramedic was as inept with their narcotics, or a firefighter was as inept with hoseline deployment, as they are with their radios. If the agency isn't going to demand proficiency of it's users, turn in that $5,000-$6,000 radio, exchange it for a $1,500 radio with smaller capability, and use the money for something else. But, don't get on the news or at council meetings and lie to us all and say you can talk to your neighboring agency with your fancy interoperable radio when we know you couldn't if your life depended on it. (sorry, rant off)

 

[knockoffham]

I think you and a couple other folks hit it directly. If the local agency (sheriff, fire chief, police chief, EMA chief) won't embrace interoperability, its a lost cause. I helped a small bit with the statewide fire/EMS mutual aid that came into Columbiana Co- interoperability was a big issue once units got to the area.

One of my biggest comebacks to people who refuse interoperability is this: it would not be tolerated if an officer was as inept with their firearm, a paramedic was as inept with their narcotics, or a firefighter was as inept with hoseline deployment, as they are with their radios. If the agency isn't going to demand proficiency of it's users, turn in that $5,000-$6,000 radio, exchange it for a $1,500 radio with smaller capability, and use the money for something else. But, don't get on the news or at council meetings and lie to us all and say you can talk to your neighboring agency with your fancy interoperable radio when we know you couldn't if your life depended on it. (sorry, rant off)

The few places I dealt with around here didn’t have money for $1500 radios, but even bottom of the barrel stuff can do 16 channels. But no, 2-4 channels was more than enough apparently.

 

[speedway_navigator]

I think some agencies might be open to having a channel or 2 where different TGs are dynamically assigned to that inerop channel based on the situation instead of a few dozen TGs with fixed patched in users.

Our county is going to switch the C position APX switch for our rural FDs from Indianapolis and Marion county TGs to the county west of us. Those VFDs are more likely to be called for mutual aid out there than going 15 miles to the east to help. The FDs in the east half won't change