FFX condition 2?

[R426onthescene]

I cought the end of a message that I hear frequently when we have bad weather, and im just wondering what it means. It was on fairfax county fire ch. adam, and it was "attention all stations... somthing... we are in condition 2" What does that mean? and what are the other conditions?
-Wes

 

[ScanManQSL]

We have the exact situation for montgomery county but they call it "Condition Red".

I always wonder about this, Good question!


-Ben-

 

[WesFFXFire]

Condition 2 is used during sudden busy periods like weather related problems or a major fire or just a lot of calls at once. It reduces some of the responses. However, it really doesn't change much with our new responses. It also eliminates the volunteer tones while in cond 2.

 

[WesFFXFire]

Oh yeah, there is also a condition 3, which on most calls doesn't make a recomendation, so the on duty fire capt would tell the dispatcher what to send. This would be a major incident, I think on 9/11 we might have went to it, but cond 3 is rarely used.

 

[R426onthescene]

Awsome, thanks!
-Wes