Luzerne Cty - New Hazardous Material Control Freq

[captclint]

There was some sort of hazardous material spill in the Dallas area tonight. I picked up some very official sounding command center to Operations transmissions about spill containment at a dam. It came in on

159.7575. DPL 031 WPQG415 BREN, JOSEPH W PENOBSCOT KNOB Mtop

Base and mobile traffic, but did not appear to be repeated. This freq is supposed to be a trunked frequency, but it was conventional with a DPL 031. It was not strong enough to be from Mtop, so perhaps they had a mobile command center. I have monitored this freq previously, but had not discovered any obvious identification. There are a bunch of 151.xxx mobile freq's which I did not have programmed at the time.
Mobile
151.6700
151.7300
151.7900
151.8500
151.9100
Fixed Base FB8
159.6225
159.6975
159.7275
159.9225

I have not heard anything on any other channel except 159.7575, but I have only been monitoring for a couple of weeks.

If I had to guess, I would say the traffic on this channel was from some sort of state or private hazardous material company.

Anyone have any ideas.

 

[HM1529]

Luzerne County does not have ther own hazmat team, per se. The county has a contract with both Datom Products and Teem Environmental for hazmat response.

As a side note, only about half (or less) of the counties in PA have their own hazmat teams (either county run or run by a fire department in a county). Datom, Teem, Weavertown, and a few other companies handle responses for various counties around the state.

 

[fuzzymoto]

I did catch some of that activity so I'll keep that freq. in my active scans. I have nothing on the other freqs. you listed so far.

 

[captclint]

Bob Reynolds pointed out that this is a fireground repeater in the Dallas/Back Mtn area. Doesn't seem to be registered as such, but this thread is no longer valid.