captncarp
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Just heard 911 dispatch giving info to Campbell Hall and the people having a conversation in the background were as loud as the 911 dispatcher.
Nothings Changed in Orange County
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KC2zZe
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That's not necessarily so...
Orange County’s Department of Emergency Services – Division of Emergency Medical Services has rewritten Addendum E (the communications plan) of its Multiple Casualty Incident (MCI) Plan. Highlights of the changes are listed below.
- Since all of the County’s emergency medical services, except for Greenville and Wallkill, now have some form of their own internal use channel(s), the County has gotten out of the business of designating tactical / alternate / talkaround channels.
- With 155.2200 utilized right over the Orange’s northeastern border, (by Ulster County, as their Fire/EMS dispatch channel; with tone 91.5), that frequency has been formally decommissioned for countywide use. Note that some corps are directly licensed on “Two Twenty” and continue to retain that frequency in their channel plans.
- Addendum E now reads as follows:
155.2800 (100.0) MCI Command Channel (WPKT567)
155.7150 (110.9) MCI Operations Channel (WAU718)
155.7525 (156.7) MCI Staging Channel (WQIH225)
159.4725 (156.7) MCI Triage / Treatment Channel (WAU718)
151.1375 (156.7) MCI Transport Channel (WAU718)
154.4525 (156.7) MCI Safety Channel (WAU718)
Yes, you are reading that correctly. Staging is one and the same with VCall10, Triage is VTac14, Transport is VTac11, and Safety is VTac12. I will withhold my commentary as to the, shall I say, virtuosity of selecting nationally designated interoperability frequencies for such specific intra-service uses.
Lastly, 157.4500 (136.5) has been designated as EMS Page and 153.8600 (77.0) has been designated as EMS Response.
All of the above frequencies are FMN, except for EMS Page.
How this will all change once the County turns on CoRNet (published reports, as current has mid-month December, 2018, are sticking to “…Summer of 2019” for it to go-live), and activates the related simplex channels, remains to be seen. Stay tuned.
Orange County’s Department of Emergency Services – Division of Emergency Medical Services has rewritten Addendum E (the communications plan) of its Multiple Casualty Incident (MCI) Plan. Highlights of the changes are listed below.
- Since all of the County’s emergency medical services, except for Greenville and Wallkill, now have some form of their own internal use channel(s), the County has gotten out of the business of designating tactical / alternate / talkaround channels.
- With 155.2200 utilized right over the Orange’s northeastern border, (by Ulster County, as their Fire/EMS dispatch channel; with tone 91.5), that frequency has been formally decommissioned for countywide use. Note that some corps are directly licensed on “Two Twenty” and continue to retain that frequency in their channel plans.
- Addendum E now reads as follows:
155.2800 (100.0) MCI Command Channel (WPKT567)
155.7150 (110.9) MCI Operations Channel (WAU718)
155.7525 (156.7) MCI Staging Channel (WQIH225)
159.4725 (156.7) MCI Triage / Treatment Channel (WAU718)
151.1375 (156.7) MCI Transport Channel (WAU718)
154.4525 (156.7) MCI Safety Channel (WAU718)
Yes, you are reading that correctly. Staging is one and the same with VCall10, Triage is VTac14, Transport is VTac11, and Safety is VTac12. I will withhold my commentary as to the, shall I say, virtuosity of selecting nationally designated interoperability frequencies for such specific intra-service uses.
Lastly, 157.4500 (136.5) has been designated as EMS Page and 153.8600 (77.0) has been designated as EMS Response.
All of the above frequencies are FMN, except for EMS Page.
How this will all change once the County turns on CoRNet (published reports, as current has mid-month December, 2018, are sticking to “…Summer of 2019” for it to go-live), and activates the related simplex channels, remains to be seen. Stay tuned.
onsceno
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KC2zZe, I think you missed the point on this one. Fairly certain captncarp is commenting on the certain level of service and etiquette provided by OC911.
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