Interesting Comm's

[RandyKuff]

There was just a rollover wreck with entrapment in my neck of the woods...
They actually landed the Metro Life Flight helicopter on route 58 by the Lorain/Amherst boarder...
But what was interesting was the comm's between Metro and Lorain's Fire Dept on the LFD's frequency...
I wonder if that was patched thru the 911 call center or something... First time I heard anything like that...

 

[Ace9133uwu]

Nah, the crew on the fireground, county dispatch & medical chopper dispatch figure out and assign an operating channel for the incident scene. Basically the chopper switches to whichever channel they’re told to operate on.

 

[RandyKuff]

Just hearing the chopper back on ProMedica-Air Ops enroute to Cleveland...

 

[W8HDU]

Just hearing the chopper back on ProMedica-Air Ops enroute to Cleveland...

Makes sense. That's the way they do it around here.

The chopper will operate on the assigned EMTS channel inbound to the scene. But once loaded, and en-route to the Med Center they switch off the Fire/EMTS channel to the hospital channel to provide info on the patient.

 

[RandyKuff]

I usually don't hear comm's like that in my area...
Especially with the helo landing at the scene... That scene is under 2 miles from the hospitals landing pad...
Must of been a pretty nasty wreck...

Usually the patient is transported to the hospital and Life Flight picks them up there for transport to Cleveland...

 

[W8HDU]

The transmissions I've heard would be for bad accidents where inbound to the accident they are on the FD Ops channel. Leaving the scene and inbound to the hospital they are on their own channel. We've had a few rather bad ones, lately.