Seattle 911 center live logs

[Radiorick]

www.2600wa.com/911.htm

 

[Buckskinner33]

Man thats pretty cool... Who is putting that up?

 

[Radiorick]

The city......

 

[Buckskinner33]

The City is putting the call logs out on the web? .... I woud be shocked if my town did that... Getting info from them is like pulling teeth.

 

[AndreniW]

I know...Palm Beach County, FL used to do that, it was really cool too, it would show Enroute/OnScene/Call Completed. But stupid Theresa Earnhardt made our senators change the rules, and now due to HIPAA, we can't have it anymore

But on a happy note, hopefully soon I will be moving to the Seattle area and I can once again listen to my scanner and then watch it pop up on the Internet.

And I'm already doing that because I found a live Seattle scanner feed! So fun! mms://seattle.realscanner.com:1755 is the address.

Andrew
Computer Specialist

Have a computer problem? Ask me.

 

[Jay911]

City of Toronto does it too..

http://www.city.toronto.on.ca/fire/cadinfo/livecad.htm

 

[Buckskinner33]

Thanks for the info guys... I'll try to pull some teeth around here and see if our county will do the same . So far the only way to find out about calls is by the news paper or to be a scanner owner. I'll start at the press and find out how they do it...

 

[Jay911]

I'll start at the press and find out how they do it...

Most likely, if they are anything like the press in my area, they have a handful of scanners of varying ages in the newscroom, but also a portable radio purchased from the agency that operates the trunk system they want to monitor (although in our case, the fire dept operates the trunk system, while the media's radios are from the police). These radios are programmed to be receive-only and with only a handful of channels/talkgroups compared to "normal" operating radios on the system. Here in Calgary, radios issued to fire crews will have the main dispatch channels C13/C14/C15/C16, EMS dispatch A1, their talkaround channels A2-A5 and B1, and Fire's tactical channels C1 thru C12, etc etc etc. The media gets, out of that bunch, C13/C14/C15/C16 and A1. No talkaround channels (where "sensitive" patient info, etc., is discussed) and no tac channels. The police configuration is similar - instead of all the side channels, Records channels, Traffic/Drug/SWAT team ops, etc., the media only gets to hear the seven main Dispatch channels.

Also, of course, the person in charge of the radio system has the ability to go into the zone controller and 'idle' that radio if it's being misused - basically turning it into a useless paperweight - so the media tend to co-operate for the most part.