emt3212
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OC EMS Zone 4 is now in use. Effective yesterday at 0900 Squad 30 is no longer using EMS-1 (VHF). They are being dispatched on OC Alert Channel (UHF) & Communicating on EMS Zone 4.
From what we are told, most of the dispatchers were pushing for us to be on fire zone 4 not EMS zone 4.
The Best part. We are the only EMS unit able to talk on the fire bands too (except Surf City) that we know of.
I would have thought that squads would wait for the new 700 system. While the system is still a ways out, it's not like the equipment they purchase now can be used on the new system.
In your radios, do you actually have Fire Zone 1-5? And, if you don't mind me asking, what was the reason your department switched to the TRS?