New Chicago OEMC Public Safety - 800 MHz P25

[That_Radio_Geek]

Listening to CFD EMS North today, I heard main call what sounds like an ambulance with the callsign "5 Zebra 19" Do we have new ambulance/fire calls on the air?

 

[KEVINWSFF819]

Not that I heard. But now I gotta start listening closer see if I catch it.

 

[werinshades]

Two new Community CARE Teams went up in service today: 5-Z-04 (5-Zebra 04) which covers the 4th CPD District, and 5-Z-12 (5-Zebra 12) which covers the CPD 12th District. By adding these two teams, that corresponds with the 6 CPD Districts serviced on the map. I'm not sure if 5-Z-78 (5-Zebra 78) which covers the CPD 7th & 8th Districts, will be broken up into two teams or will remain as one?

All heard on CFD EMS talk groups 1023, 1024.

CARE Coverage Area

CARE is currently made up of 4 Alternate Response Teams made up of a CDPH Mental Health Crisis Clinician and a CDPH Emergency Medical Technician (EMT). Teams respond to low-risk 911 calls with a mental health component in select police districts across the city. The CARE teams currently...

www.chicago.gov

An update through Region 11 EMS with a detailed map included:

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Listening to CFD EMS North today, I heard main call what sounds like an ambulance with the callsign "5 Zebra 19" Do we have new ambulance/fire calls on the air?

Not that I heard. But now I gotta start listening closer see if I catch it.

Started on Post #672,

 

[werinshades]

A couple of additional posts:

Information on 5-Z (Zebra) Teams that started back up on CFD EMS talk groups today:

Crisis Assistance Response and Engagement (CARE) Dashboard

www.chicago.gov

Removed CFD paramedics, replaced with EMT-B's hired by the Chicago Department of Public Health and trained is the change and reason why they haven't been heard for awhile.

If anyone is wondering how the radio signatures correspond with the area of service is they follow along CPD District boundaries. For example 5-Z-78 is assigned to the 7th and 8th District CPD districts, 5-Z-01 is assigned to the 1st District CPD District etc. The map link I posted shows the current service areas...your all welcome...LOL!

 

[werinshades]

I heard some testing on talk groups 1025-1038 this morning by radio ID 1190031/1190032. This would fall under the "CFD block" and the radio ID's would be assigned to Fire District 1 spare pool.

In addition to those talk groups, testing by the same radio ID's heard on "previously identified" O'Hare talk groups 2501-2514. Also talk group 7013 was keyed up, but didn't hear any voice (possibly encrypted CPD Incident3?)

All talk groups were in Phase 2 on Site-1. I'm not sure what these talk groups will be used for yet and will wait for further self-identified testing.