OPS 3 - Nerve Wracking

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Around 5:45pm today I heard multiple references to going to "OPS 3", but have been unable to find it. I have two scanners and the SDR searching for traffic, and and there is nothing directly named that in the database. Arrrrrgh!
 

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Around 5:45pm today I heard multiple references to going to "OPS 3", but have been unable to find it. I have two scanners and the SDR searching for traffic, and and there is nothing directly named that in the database. Arrrrrgh!
Which system?
 

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4:56 Tone
4:56 Coldwater visitor center / Hammocks trail head
4:59 aprox 1 Mike down front hammocks trailhead - possible compound fracture
5:40 move to ops 3
6:04 lifeflight lz at trail head
7:20 patient with lifeflight

There were some call in-between on cowlitz fire dispatch & cowlitz fire & rescue

But yeah, same boat , wish I knew what freq ops 3 is on
 

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@PDXh0b0 - Looks that we got the info on OPS3 thanks to @west-pac. You know, I have a twenty year old list hanging around somewhere that is seriously obsolete, but now that I've moved back to Longview, I might just punch in and see if any of those otherwise "unlisted" frequencies get any traffic. This area is STILL pretty much analog, so...
 

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I already have it named Cowlitz Fire & rescue 2(dont remember how I came up with the name)..during that incident I only heard a couple transmissions after the call to switch to op3, granted they were focused on assessment & extraction to the lz. (adding that the trailhead is aprox 30 miles as a crow flies with hills and mountains between, so I just may have been unable to receive)
 

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A previous Radio Reference article has that freq listed as Ops 3. I'll go find that article again a copy and paste the rest of the freqs listed. The FCC callsign for Fire has 10 or 12 "base/repeater" frequencies listed. I would put all of those in. I saw they have a "Tac 8" listed, but not Tac 1 - Tac 7, so I'm guessing a lot of those other FCC frequencies are in use, but not listed in the RRDB.
 

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Here is a screenshot from that other post in 2015. This info never made it to the RRDB. Verify this info and submit it, so it'll be added to the DB.
 

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@mikepdx, Your info was sought after. Hopefully this time this info will get confirmed and submitted to the database.
 
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