Fire Dispatching and Alerting / MAYDAY Alerts

[ThePolishDude]

Subject: FIre Dispatch and Station Alerting/Mayday Tones
Does anybody know why the Fire Dispatch talkgroups and the Strongsville Fire Station Alert talkgroups are still listed for the Southwest/Southcentral region of Cuyahoga County in Radio Reference. I have not heard anything on these talkgroups for a super long time. Are these backup talkgroups since Fire Dispatching seems to have been consolidated into one talkgroups for all the Southwestern/Southcentral cities except Parma and Parma Heights which is done on the Parma system. Also on Sunday mornings they conduct a MAYDAY alert test on the SWEDC Fire Alert talkgroup. It is a tone that sounds different than the regular alert tone.
The same could be said about the Cuyahoga Valley cities.
Each Cuyahoga Valley city has a Fire Alert talkgroup listed.
Are these listed for backup purposes?
Yet they are all Alerted/Dispatched on the main talkgroup first an AI and than a Human.

 

[KB8VJU]

Subject: FIre Dispatch and Station Alerting/Mayday Tones
Does anybody know why the Fire Dispatch talkgroups and the Strongsville Fire Station Alert talkgroups are still listed for the Southwest/Southcentral region of Cuyahoga County in Radio Reference. I have not heard anything on these talkgroups for a super long time. Are these backup talkgroups since Fire Dispatching seems to have been consolidated into one talkgroups for all the Southwestern/Southcentral cities except Parma and Parma Heights which is done on the Parma system. Also on Sunday mornings they conduct a MAYDAY alert test on the SWEDC Fire Alert talkgroup. It is a tone that sounds different than the regular alert tone.
The same could be said about the Cuyahoga Valley cities.
Each Cuyahoga Valley city has a Fire Alert talkgroup listed.
Are these listed for backup purposes?
Yet they are all Alerted/Dispatched on the main talkgroup first an AI and than a Human.

Sure…

All the individual talk groups are still in the radios and available for use, though they don’t.

The SWEDC departments use SW FIRE ALERT through their station speakers and the speakers are opened by pinging/addressing the station’s radio or they can listen to all the traffic on that talkgroup. You’ll notice no tones over SW FIRE 1.

The SW MAYDAY tone test is both Sunday morning and evening to familiarize the crews with the tones should they ever be needed to evacuate a scene. They are deliberately different than the regular tones.

As far as the Cuyahoga Valley, I believe the initial dispatch is multi-selected between the individual city’s alert talkgroup and their main dispatch.

Hope that helps.

 

[ThePolishDude]

Thank you. Just curious what is that automated dispatching system called, that Cuyahoga Valley uses?

 

[wmlovell]

Locution Automated Fire Dispatch System​

 

[KWs]

Why doesn’t the main Cuyahoga Valley Dispatch use Locution ?

 

[Colin9690]

Why doesn’t the main Cuyahoga Valley Dispatch use Locution ?

There are so many possible reasons, that question is best deferred to the local government.

 

[KWs]

And oops, I meant Chagrin Valley Dispatch ..

 

[kf8yk]

Why doesn’t the main Chagrin Valley Dispatch use Locution ?

It's been in the installation phase for a while. It's not actually from Locution Systems, it's a custom system built by a local software development firm.