(this is a statement from Sac Metro Fire):
Just before 10am (Tuesday 3/18), Sacramento County radio systems experienced a critical failure during a scheduled test. Primary radio communications were lost in the county and cities. The Public Safety Radio System, the primary communication system for fire, law and a host of other public safety agencies, became inoperable.
The events that followed made it clear that the communication systems in place throughout Sacramento County and beyond are redundant enough to allow operations to continue without incident.
The moment Fire Dispatchers and field users determined there was a failure, we exercised our Radio Failure Plan, utilizing a back-up radio system. Notification of the failure and the implementation of the back-up system was immediately sent to all field units, pagers, fire station printers, and station alerting systems. Volunteer and reserve firefighters were sent alpha-numeric pages. The transition occurred quickly and seamlessly.
The system failure lasted roughly 10 minutes. Tyler Wagaman, Metro Fire Communications Captain, stated “We learned today that the system we have in place is completely effective. Even with a primary system failure, none of the services we provide were interrupted, and there was no compromise to our operations.”
Just before 10am (Tuesday 3/18), Sacramento County radio systems experienced a critical failure during a scheduled test. Primary radio communications were lost in the county and cities. The Public Safety Radio System, the primary communication system for fire, law and a host of other public safety agencies, became inoperable.
The events that followed made it clear that the communication systems in place throughout Sacramento County and beyond are redundant enough to allow operations to continue without incident.
The moment Fire Dispatchers and field users determined there was a failure, we exercised our Radio Failure Plan, utilizing a back-up radio system. Notification of the failure and the implementation of the back-up system was immediately sent to all field units, pagers, fire station printers, and station alerting systems. Volunteer and reserve firefighters were sent alpha-numeric pages. The transition occurred quickly and seamlessly.
The system failure lasted roughly 10 minutes. Tyler Wagaman, Metro Fire Communications Captain, stated “We learned today that the system we have in place is completely effective. Even with a primary system failure, none of the services we provide were interrupted, and there was no compromise to our operations.”