OCFA has grown at a nice clip recent times.
Wonder if this will further encourage cities like Brea, Fountain Valley and Costa Mesa which have pending surveys from OCFA on the table.
Back to scanning now - how will this change things?
I note OCFA will have Santa Ana as new Division 6. Guess they will need a few new talk groups, or shift around existing ones??
Santa Ana FD which can get rather busy has 8 dedicated TGs on the CCCS system currently.
OCFA has grown? Am I missing something here? Unless I'm brain farting, OCFA hasn't picked up any new territory since Westminster / Buena Park / San Clemente back in the late 80's or early 90's.
As far as other departments go, rumor has it that Fountain Valley is no longer interested in OCFA, mostly due to loss of local control. Don't know about the rest. I could see Brea waiting to see what happens with the Anaheim, Fullerton and Orange merger before they make a decision.
I would Imagine that once the transition occurs, Division 6 will stay on 3-D and/or 3-E for their tacticals and will be dispatched on 5-B like the rest of the county, but that's purely speculation on my part. Can't see them all using 5-D as the extra traffic would be too much.
Long term, I could see them on a new Tac in zone 4. Zone 5 looks to be running low on extra talkgroups.