YRP Backup Center

[yorkphotog]

Lots of trouble with York Region Police tonight. The dispatchers are telling units that they are in their backup center and therefore all units must identify who they are when they are calling in. Any info? What's the backup center?

 

[nec208]

May be the MDT is not working or the computers in the dispatch the CAD?

 

[yorkphotog]

Well usually when the MDT/MWS' go down, everything gets voiced. That doesn't seem to be the problem tonight.

 

[conundrum]

Hi-Tech communications was on the radio earlier asking to speak to the comms supervisor in relation to the downtime, all I can assume since Hi-Tech does networking and voice comms, is that they are either upgrading or repairing something that is taking the whole comm center offline

 

[SCPD]

Lots of trouble with York Region Police tonight. The dispatchers are telling units that they are in their backup center and therefore all units must identify who they are when they are calling in. Any info? What's the backup center?

That means they weren't at the main comm centre.

They've got a second location on the opposite side of town originally part of emergency/disaster/terrorist planning. They use it once or twice a year to make sure the basics work but they also use it during equipment changeovers. Last I heard there is minimal MWS service at the backup. RH fire dspatch shares equipment at this location for the same purpose.

 

[KevMuskoka]

My guess is that the backup centre just has regular radios (MCS2000's, I think) as backup, much like the radios that each fire comm centre has sitting at each desk, in case the consoles go down. They wouldn't have any MWS' there either.

The backup centre, last I heard, was down in the Yonge/407 area.

Kevin P.

 

[SCPD]

I am almost certain the backup centre is in the Richmond Hill fire station at Red Maple & High Tech.

 

[yorkphotog]

Ah... Yeah, that makes sense because there is a fairly large Richmond Hill fire station just north of the 407 on Red Maple Rd.

Out of curiosity, where are the main comm centers for some of the York emergency services (PD, Vaughan, R Hill, Markham Fire, etc)?

 

[KevMuskoka]

York Police: YRP Headquarters (Yonge St)
Vaughan Fire: Vaughan Civic Centre (Major MacKenzie Dr)
Richmond Hill Fire: Station 81 (Major MacKenzie Dr)
Markham Fire: Station 95 (Unionville)

 

[yorkphotog]

Cool, but....... How do you know these things? Hehe.

 

[conundrum]

Cool, but....... How do you know these things? Hehe.

As people say, if you have to ask you don't need to know...

 

[KevMuskoka]

I guess having worked for VFRS for 6 years now (2 as a dispatcher and 4 as a firefighter) and listening to York's system since it was built will give you this knowledge.