FD enroute to a call: Uhh dispatch, can you call PD for (pauses)... animal mitigation? Theres several deer at (location) running back and forth across the road, causing traffic to back up.
Heard these one night last April and was able to record the audio on my PRO-668. One was German Village taxi and the second one is Orange Cab, both in Columbus, OH. The first one is the best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26_QNGc7LqQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26_QNGc7LqQ
Heard a call today, Dispatch very clearly stated all the info, including which radio channel to use. Every truck (3 total) that went to the call had to ask for the ops chan. And they were staggered out. I take it they dont listen much to their own radios.
Fire? Might have been volunteers that weren't at the station yet when the call info was given. I was a volunteer firefighter in the 90's and all we had were pagers (and the firehouse whistle) to tell us a call came in, wouldn't know where or anything else until we got to the station unless we happened to be listening to a scanner when the call came out, rarely did all apparatus go out at the same time.
Na weve all newer voice pagers that states what the call is, where, ops chan, and type of response.
DJ11DLN
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Everybody around here has pagers that record and can play back the info at will and as many times as you need to fix it in your mind (such as for those notorious 0300 calls) but I am constantly amazed at the number of, "Can you repeat those numerics? And do we have a Fireground assigned?" calls back to Dispatch.:roll:
Waaaaay back when I was in fire service we had a beeper type pager, not all the fancy stuff they have now. The beeper and the firehouse whistle is how we knew to respond, once at the station you called fireboard for what's up.
That's why I responded the way I did above.
DJ11DLN
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I wasn't trying to be contentious, just commenting that sometimes all that "fancy stuff" might as well be left in the box. I get it, I really do...it's a people problem, not a technology problem.:wink:
Multiple address requests; Opinion
I though that is what the radios were for. Going to the wrong address will ruin someone's day.
Our county wide system sends tones and directions, and automatically repeats it, plus messages the respondent's phone with all incident info plus mapping. Over the past oh-so-many years in the Volunteer Fire Service, I have discovered that there's a lot going on in a short, adrenalin compressed time. Address numerics heard "hours" ago fade.
My own ISO-4 (high rated) volunteer department averages 1.3 call per week (we do not run EMS). NFPA says we need to be "out the door in four", but that is often a challenge. By the time a volunteer drops what they're doing, dodges slow drivers, dogs, kids and grandma driving a mile to the firehouse, starts the apparatus, puts on their gear, waits a moment for another volunteer to get in, punches the door, turns on the lights, blasts the siren, etc. the address is uncertain.
There's a lot going on, and often the second wave of responders arrives at the house after the first apparatus went en-route. Following the leader is not an option. Senior volunteers often end up driving, sometimes alone or with a newbie in the shotgun seat. Fiddling with a pager or phone while driving a 30,000# fire engine is not recommended practice. Modern construction house fires double in size every twenty seconds; adding twenty seconds to fiddle with your phone/pager is far too much time wasted. Confirming info over the radio doesn't hurt a thing, plus time-stamps the apparatus out-the-door time. Now if I could only get the first-due to always give complete a scene size-up instead of "we're here" ... but I digress.
If volunteers made two or three runs a day and had more than a $30K annual department budget it would be different. And if you think it's easy, you're welcome to become a responder and discover the true meaning of "days of boredom mixed with moments of sheer panic."
I though that is what the radios were for. Going to the wrong address will ruin someone's day.
Our county wide system sends tones and directions, and automatically repeats it, plus messages the respondent's phone with all incident info plus mapping. Over the past oh-so-many years in the Volunteer Fire Service, I have discovered that there's a lot going on in a short, adrenalin compressed time. Address numerics heard "hours" ago fade.
My own ISO-4 (high rated) volunteer department averages 1.3 call per week (we do not run EMS). NFPA says we need to be "out the door in four", but that is often a challenge. By the time a volunteer drops what they're doing, dodges slow drivers, dogs, kids and grandma driving a mile to the firehouse, starts the apparatus, puts on their gear, waits a moment for another volunteer to get in, punches the door, turns on the lights, blasts the siren, etc. the address is uncertain.
There's a lot going on, and often the second wave of responders arrives at the house after the first apparatus went en-route. Following the leader is not an option. Senior volunteers often end up driving, sometimes alone or with a newbie in the shotgun seat. Fiddling with a pager or phone while driving a 30,000# fire engine is not recommended practice. Modern construction house fires double in size every twenty seconds; adding twenty seconds to fiddle with your phone/pager is far too much time wasted. Confirming info over the radio doesn't hurt a thing, plus time-stamps the apparatus out-the-door time. Now if I could only get the first-due to always give complete a scene size-up instead of "we're here" ... but I digress.
If volunteers made two or three runs a day and had more than a $30K annual department budget it would be different. And if you think it's easy, you're welcome to become a responder and discover the true meaning of "days of boredom mixed with moments of sheer panic."
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DJ11DLN
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OK if I'm the one who started this argument, sorry. This isn't the place for it, and it wasn't my intention to get anyone fired up. Everybody has their method of fixing an address in their mind. In the middle of the night I would use the replay function 2 or 3 times on the way to the firehouse. If it wasn't fixed in my mind by then (if I drove, I'd mark enroute to the address so Dispatch could correct me if I didn't have it), the pager got clipped to my collar so I could still access the info. But then I started driving farm trucks when I was 8 so herding an apparatus with one hand is no big deal for me.
My comments were in the form of irony. I don't care how many radio calls go back and forth so long as the VFD gets on scene in time to do some good. That's what those expensive radios are for I just find it odd that so many people can't remember that they have all the info necessary right there at their fingertips, just a button push away.
But then I've only been on the VFD for 35 years, so what do I know?
My comments were in the form of irony. I don't care how many radio calls go back and forth so long as the VFD gets on scene in time to do some good. That's what those expensive radios are for I just find it odd that so many people can't remember that they have all the info necessary right there at their fingertips, just a button push away.
But then I've only been on the VFD for 35 years, so what do I know?
No offense taken. For me it is a constant battle with new volunteers who get a nearly fatal case of Blue Light Fever when the tones drop and they forget the object of the exercise.
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Heard this morning:
Caller wants to go to [local hospital], to get his brain transmitter removed. PD is enroute, as well.
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Caller wants to go to [local hospital], to get his brain transmitter removed. PD is enroute, as well.
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I'll let this one speak for itself:
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I wish I had this dispatch recorded. Years ago I had a relative who grasp on the here and now was bit loose. He called 911 from a residential care facility and reported he was locked in a basement and could not get out. Needless to said I was sent to retrieve the cellfone and he could only use his room's telephone under supervision.
What was really funny was a couple of years later. I was in the hospital for serious health problems. One of the medical doses caused me to hallucinate and I though I was in the basement. Those talking teddy bears were a real problems they kept getting me in trouble. At least it wasn't a tiger.
What was really funny was a couple of years later. I was in the hospital for serious health problems. One of the medical doses caused me to hallucinate and I though I was in the basement. Those talking teddy bears were a real problems they kept getting me in trouble. At least it wasn't a tiger.
A profound pearl of wisdom about Sharpsburg and butts:
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Some time ago a rather rural county in Illinois the Sheriff Office got a high band repeater. One night when conditions was rather good. I heard a deputy discussing the residents of the some towns in the county. "Can you imagine the girls in xxx meet up with guys from yyy", Not like telling most of the mid-west about your county.
Funny how callers tend to exaggerate those things!
At around sometime between 10-11 PM earlier tonight dispatch came on the scanner saying they received a call about a man reporting people swinging/hanging from his trees in hazmat suits, a green robot in his back yard, a dog in the front yard wrapped up in tarp or blanket, and something else I can't remember now.
He also said his wife was beside him witnessing all this and he would used his weapons if they got close to his front door, also said he noticed something odd earlier today but now its worse. They sent all units but didn't say anything further after dispatch said they couldn't make contact back with the person.
Also about 3-4 years ago a woman reported an upside down helicopter hovering behind her house in a field, plus another lady reported to dispatch a UFO over her house every night at the same spot, dispatch laughed on that one.
This is in Southern Indiana, wish I had all these called recorded, it was hilarious!
He also said his wife was beside him witnessing all this and he would used his weapons if they got close to his front door, also said he noticed something odd earlier today but now its worse. They sent all units but didn't say anything further after dispatch said they couldn't make contact back with the person.
Also about 3-4 years ago a woman reported an upside down helicopter hovering behind her house in a field, plus another lady reported to dispatch a UFO over her house every night at the same spot, dispatch laughed on that one.
This is in Southern Indiana, wish I had all these called recorded, it was hilarious!
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dmg1969
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The best I've heard in a while. A call to the parking lot of a local adult shop for "an unknown age, unknown gender person" involved in an MVA and complaining of neck pain.
