shajoe44
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I am hearing Command Post on SC Fleettalk 10092. Not sure if any other Fleettalk groups are being used or not. I am in Edgefield County.
Table Rock and Ceaser's Head fires?
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thanks. Do you know how the SCMA talkgroups are being used?
ecps92
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Not local so nope. But it looks like VHF only from the documents available, no mention of TG's
Yes a picture today showed a fleettalk truck at the command center in pumpkin town.
rescuecomm
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I heard SC Emergency Management on Pal 800 getting ready to bring up a portable repeater from downstate that will work with Bendix King radios for tomorrow.
Fire has doubled in size overnight, now 6000 acres. Updates on Table Rock, Persimmon Ridge fires in South Carolina
p1879
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Three Large Air Tankers inbound to TR Complex, from Chattanooga. The A/G 155.455 pretty informative earlier. Due to the other fires across the mountains, USFS Flight Following"National" 168.650 pretty active as well, and did hear a hail on "Guard" 168.625.
Old dc 10's, that is what we need. Souprising how agile they are at scooping water and pulling up quick.
SCMA 6 and 3 were heard on Tuesday, March 25.
Also, many conventional SC Forestry and Interop channels are in use. Attached is a copy of my BCT15X ProScan log:
It would be fun to know the frequency of this portable repeater.
I'm guessing that sometime early this week, after these fires had started over the weekend, that there was likely a Communications coordination meeting among all agencies involved. It seems that SC Forestry is the lead agency, with assistance from US Forest Service and other state agencies like the National Guard. Then the local agencies - County fire departments and law enforcement are also involved. I'm guessing that VHF is default band being used for the incident (given that's what SCFS and USFS uses), with patches being established to Fleettalk (UHF, used by Pickens Co agencies) and maybe to Palmetto 800 (used by Greenville Co agencies)? Maybe Palmetto 800 has now been mostly dropped if they have a portable repeater set up.
I would be very curious to know what the decisions for coordinating communications have been.
ecps92
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SCMA 3 and FleetTalk IO 12 are patched via Newberry Cnty 911
SCMA 6 now a Tactical for the Resources NET (Days) and a Night Shift Division Ops channel
This fire is over 10 k acres now US government is involvedLot's more agencies and more equipment. I have been looking out the window more than listening to radio. So far so good but always loking out the front windows looking at the fire
ecps92
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As it progresses into a more Complex Operation, look for more NIFC channels to be brought into play
Likely 122.2750 which is/was already assigned for TR
For those of you who live in the area, BE Safe for those who are working this fire KEEP Safe
p1879
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Air attack had it right yesterday:
FDC 5/7815 ZTL NC..AIRSPACE 22NM NW GREENVILLE, SC....TEMPORARY FLIGHT RESTRICTIONS WI AN AREA DEFINED AS 7NM RADIUS OF 350430N0823830W (SUG225027.0) SFC-8000FT. TO PROVIDE A SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR FIRE FIGHTING ACFT OPS. PURSUANT TO 14 CFR SECTION 91.137(A)(2) TEMPORARY FLIGHT RESTRICTIONS ARE IN EFFECT. SOUTH CAROLINA FORESTRY COMMISSION TEL 803-561-4087 OR FREQ 125.2750/TABLE ROCK COMPLEX FIRE IS IN CHARGE OF THE OPERATION. ATLANTA /ZTL/ ARTCC TEL 770-210-7622 IS THE FAA CDN
FDC 5/7815 ZTL NC..AIRSPACE 22NM NW GREENVILLE, SC....TEMPORARY FLIGHT RESTRICTIONS WI AN AREA DEFINED AS 7NM RADIUS OF 350430N0823830W (SUG225027.0) SFC-8000FT. TO PROVIDE A SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR FIRE FIGHTING ACFT OPS. PURSUANT TO 14 CFR SECTION 91.137(A)(2) TEMPORARY FLIGHT RESTRICTIONS ARE IN EFFECT. SOUTH CAROLINA FORESTRY COMMISSION TEL 803-561-4087 OR FREQ 125.2750/TABLE ROCK COMPLEX FIRE IS IN CHARGE OF THE OPERATION. ATLANTA /ZTL/ ARTCC TEL 770-210-7622 IS THE FAA CDN
Thank you sir. It has been a couple miles from my front door all week. Lucky for me the wind did a 180 thursday and switched to coming out of the south west.
ecps92
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SCMA 03 AND INTEROP 12 PATCHED AT ANDERSON COUNTY
SCMA 05 AND VIPER JULIET 4 PATCHED AT RALEIGH, NC.
changes to Air Ops
Air Ops Branch VICTOR 125.2750
Air Ops Branch VICTOR 119.1250
SCMA 05 AND VIPER JULIET 4 PATCHED AT RALEIGH, NC.
changes to Air Ops
Air Ops Branch VICTOR 125.2750
Air Ops Branch VICTOR 119.1250
rescuecomm
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We got plenty of rain late yesterday and today. If the wildfires got as much, then it should slow things down big time. I finally got the scanner programmed for the SC mutual aid talkgroups and put the SCFS Tac channels in a legacy WT that scans pretty fast.
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