Online Scanner Feed Coverage Knox Tennessee

[Emsfan19]

Are there any online scanner feeds that cover the dispatch and working channels for Knox county rescue?

 

[jblackst]

Yes. However, you'll find that Knox County Rescue isn't very active these days. The Fire Departments in Knoxville and Knox County have been performing primary rescue operations / responses for at least the last year. The Rescue Squad proper is only performing specialized rescue and standbys, generally.

Knoxville / Knox County Fire & Rescue scanner gets all of the Knoxville and Knox County Fire / Rescue agencies. in the Calls platform.

TACN TGID 10681 is the link to Knox County Rescue Dispatch, but it's only recorded 7 traffic hits in the last 30 days. I've also heard a very minimal amount of Knox County Rescue radio traffic on Rural/Metro Fire Dispatch 1 TACN TGID 10650. YMMV.

 

[RaleighGuy]

There are also three Broadcastify feeds as well as what @jblackst shared, but I don't know what is on each of them.

Knox County Public Safety

Seymour (TN) Volunteer Fire Department SVFD covers portions of Blount, Knox, and Sevier Counties.

Knoxville / Knox County (TN) Fire & Rescue City of Knoxville FD, Karns VFD, Rural/Metro FD, Knox Co Rescue

 

[jblackst]

There are also three Broadcastify feeds as well as what @jblackst shared, but I don't know what is on each of them.

Knox County Public Safety

That Knox Co Pub Safety playlist is the garden fire hose: it seems to get anything remotely tied to Knoxville, including Knox Co Rescue, THP, TDOT HELP units, ambulances, city / county / volunteer fire departments, TEMA, TDH RMCC, Lifestar, and some random SW interop talk groups. It doesn't get any Knox Co/City LE, they're all encrypted.

 

[icom1020]

Yes. However, you'll find that Knox County Rescue isn't very active these days. The Fire Departments in Knoxville and Knox County have been performing primary rescue operations / responses for at least the last year.

A lot has changed in the last 40 years or so. I recall the precursor to the current EMS, Knox County Ambulance Authority (private) being the primary, but Knoxville Rescue Squad did respond, mostly traffic accidents and such. KFD had two ALS Ambulances but only responded to their own calls involving injured FFs or anything 2nd alarm and above.

 

[jblackst]

Those days are long gone for Knox Rescue, I'm afraid.

 

[radiocrazy123]

So Rural Metro no longer staffs the squad at station-14 ?

 

[jblackst]

RM and KCR are no longer operating together, and RM is no longer staffing or housing KCR apparatus. RM in fact began handling primary rescue duties in their jurisdiction a year or two ago, upgrading E241 (E211), E236, and E227 to 'Squads' with extrication and rescue equipment. KCR is no longer the primary agency in Knox Co for rescue on MVCs, as each fire department has accepted that responsibility. Knox Rescue is essentially a shell of it's former self.

KCR remains the defacto go to agency for technical rescue (vertical, heavy, water) and still has an active support team for rehab and standbys, but that's about it.

 

[radiocrazy123]

Gotcha I have not been in that area in a while so I'm behind the politics. But that is the route that each FD in TN will take after while. All the FD has to do is join the TN Rescue squads assocation, pay the dues, have the trained rescue staff and equipment to say "we will handle rescue in our territory" and of course add it to thier bylaws, then the rescue squad is out. FD is in command of a rescue scene anyway so having separate agencies never made sense to me. Fire/rescue has always been the way to go and TN is behind the power curve when comparing it to other states.

 

[surfacemount]

FD is in command of a rescue scene anyway so having separate agencies never made sense to me.

It wasn't always that way.

I've been around since the post-FIRESCOPE days. Without a large tangent, Tennessee suffers from the fact that fire and rescue is more volunteer than paid in the majority of the counties. There wasn't a 'county fire department', just overlapping community systems.
TARS filled that gap, made unified standards, and saved a lot of lives. As a result, they became very entrenched, and as fire decided it needed more work to do, while there wasn't a lot of pushback on first response EMS, rescue outside municipalities has remained Rescue Squad (it's in the name lol).

You want modern, progressive, 100% coverage of counties? Better crack that wallet open.

(Oh, FD is not in charge of an ICS/MACS controlled scene. That's EMA. (shrugs))

 

[radiocrazy123]

TARS is still doing what they always done, that hasn't changed. Only change is the FD has joined, implemented and taking action on the TARS standards. Which every FD in this state has every right to do. I personally am happy to see this as it was long overdue.

 

[surfacemount]

I don't care as long as someone shows up. Competent is a bonus. It all folded when civil defense morphed into emergency management and took over. (shrugs)