Middlesex Fire Changes

[rr60]

Out with the old, in with the new @mdsxfire

Noted during daily test, Dispatching no longer by local PD but now Somerset County.

Somerset County using a Middlesex RID 1210xxx. No longer is there a multicast to 154.445.
So long redundancy. Middlesex remains on the Middlesex County TRS.

I suspect the number of cover assignments by other departments (all by dispatched by Somerset) may have the been the motivation.

 

[mdsxfire]

Out with the old, in with the new @mdsxfire

Noted during daily test, Dispatching no longer by local PD but now Somerset County.

Somerset County using a Middlesex RID 1210xxx. No longer is there a multicast to 154.445.
So long redundancy. Middlesex remains on the Middlesex County TRS.

I suspect the number of cover assignments by other departments (all by dispatched by Somerset) may have the been the motivation.

Our EMS and OEM are still getting their daily test from local PD now sometime around PD night shift change, 1850-1910, they were not to happy that county doesn’t do test so PD obliged them.

Some changes and things to listen for are FD now only dispatched on Msex county TRS dispatch TG when dispatched by county, and tones only go out once, if for some reason tones are sent out from PD console VHF will multicast and tones will go out twice
EMS when dispatched from county will only go over VHF (squad does not have enough indication pagers yet) and tones only go out once, if dispatched from PD console tones go out twice and are multicast on VHF and TRS
As for OEM last I heard county was not going to be dispatching them over radio at all, only IAR, not sure about that as of this post.
Lastly town has been looking to goto actual dispatch for a few years to get the shift SGT off the desk and on the road, so the change was pushed pretty much all by PD