A couple more thoughts. . .
If your programming is 4 years old, you might try creating a new Favorites List from the master database. Youtube has some videos showing how to do this. This would be in addition to what you now have. That way you can see if you are getting stuff you haven't been.
Secondly and I apologize if I'm not being as diplomatic as I should be - you appear to be a newer user so there could be some misconceptions.
Fire Tone Out standby is where your scanner acts like a fire pager. It listens to a certain frequency for a two tone sequence. When that sequence happens, the scanner unmutes for a certain period of time and you are listening to the audio for that certain frequency. Your scanner is not scanning while in Fire Tone Out standby.
Fire Tone Out search is where you select a certain frequency and the scanner monitors that frequency. When it receives alert tones (the two tone sequence) it will display the frequency of the alert tones. This is a tool to help you program the Fire Tone Out settings.
Tone out is a way of putting your scanner in standby and will only provide audio when the correct tone sequence is received. Very specific operation in other words.
Also, just for purist sake, while Fire Tone Out is typically a two tone sequence, there are some instances where it is just a single tone, or what is called a long tone. Around our area, a single or long tone, is generally associated with a large group alerting. For example, we have about a dozen fire departments in our community each having a set of tones for each station, which is a lot. If there is a tornado warning, it takes too long to alert pagers on a station by station basis. So there is one long tone that opens up everyone's pager.
