Hazmat/device exercise under way at NIH/Navy Med Ctr.

[dc2wheel]

Many tg's on Montgomery County, MD & NIH's trunked systems have fire/ems/police/hospital personnel engaging in what sounds like a large scale hazmat or chem/bio contamination exercise. Lots of previously quiet tg's being used.
-dc2wheel

 

[jeffkraussws]

I'm listening on 8K. What other TGs are being used?

 

[ScanManQSL]

dc2wheel, What time of day was this going on? morning, afternoon ???

 

[jeffkraussws]

It was going on around noon local time.

 

[doctordave]

Any use of the 800-Call or 800-Tac frequencies? How about RINS freqs?

Dave

 

[dc2wheel]

8kilo was in heavy use at first, but hazmat and other specialized groups soon branched off to other tg's [can't recall which now]. County hospital net was active, and there was some confusion that sounded like some folk who were involved weren't fully informed [especially on the hospital end of things]. This could also have been part of the scenario though. I'm not sure if the 800 -call/-tac or RINS frequencies were being used, since I didn't have those banks open at the time. The whole thing seemed to start around noon today.
-dc2wheel

edited to add:

link to news story on the exercise:

http://www.nbc4.com/news/3840505/detail.html

 

[Hoseman292]

On most HAZMAT incidents our operations talkgroup is 11I (Ida). Our entry teams (operating inside a incapsulated suit) will probably be using simplex channels in the near future.

I just purchased ear/bone microphones for the team to communicate with that are hands-free (VOX) which works very well on simplex, where entry crews must talk to each other in close proximity while in suits.


Tim Bell N3WIR
Montgomery County DFRS
Hazardous Materials Team - Chevy Chase