In listening to the different dispatch centers around St Louis, I notice that the St Louis Fire Dept, doesn't have tones prior to dispatch. How are the stations notified and are there paging tones?
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I would imagine they're are on some form of station alerting over internet like most departments are migrating to. They used to send a series of single tones of various lengths I think for individual stations and some form of 900mhz fire station alerting. Both the old 154.130 KAG632 and the 900mhz license are expired and I can't find anything licensed to the city that may have replaced it. I also don't know of many public safety entities in the area that don't get some form of alerting or call forwarding to their cell phone. In my opinion, other than relying on cell service or internet, it's far more reliable than anything I've ever had. As soon as the dispatcher makes the CAD entry and assigns it, it get's sent to devices. 99% of the time you get the call before tones or any other alert.
The city uses a kind of in house intercom for dispatching as well as having radios on at all times in each station. Sometimes you may hear an apparatus respond on a call from their respective station and the captain may respond "*** responding, no audible." That means the voice dispatch was not received on the house intercom. Also, each firehouse has a (I think) a Walker Stand???? Don't quote me. Basically it is a closet sized room or maybe just a desk in the apparatus bay that at least one firefighter is assigned to monitor the radio, phone, log book and intercom etc. I believe most of this info to be true.
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