OKC EDACS Fire Alert Tones

[woodyrr]

I heard two individuals discussing the Fire Alert Tones on a local Amateur Repeater. If they were talking about the "musical tones" that play immediately before every dispatch, I heard the long slow tones as well.

In the first days of dispatching over the EDACS, I heard the dispatcher playing the tones during an early radio check and explaining what the different tone sequences mean. Boop de boop ... de boop - "This is your medical call tones"; Be Boop ... Be Boop ... Be Boop, "This is your radio check tones" (I feel incredibly stupid writing this :lol.

The long slow tones preceeded a Signal 82 (motor vehicle accident with injury for those reading this from out of the area). I have been focusing my monitoring efforts elsewhere recently and haven't been listening to the EDACS. Perhaps they have added a Signal 82 song to their playlist.

If they were talking about something else, I apologize for butting in.

 

[car2back]

.........The long slow tones preceeded a Signal 82 (motor vehicle accident with injury for those reading this from out of the area)........

and for those IN the area that just like to stir up trouble :roll:

 

[woodyrr]

There was absolutely no offense intended in any way shape or form. I defined the code simply as a courtesy to those who might come across the post from elsewhere.

The last thing that I want to see are more flame wars - to everyone, I apologize