In a community - not to far far away - A house fire was handled by 2 pumpers and a ladder truck - the officer on the ladder truck somehow managed to end up on the police radio freq. The first messages from the ladder officer were not acknowledged by anyone. Later, when the fire was under control, maybe 20 minutes later, the ladder officer tried to call Fire Command 3 times - still on the police freq. At this point, the police OIC told the ladder officer that he was on the police freq. The ladder officer then switched to the fire channel, and advised (Fire) Command that the fire in the rear bedroom was knocked down.
In 30 years, I dont think that I have ever heard a fire radio pop up on a police freq accidentally. This FD has approximately 1 serious fire per year. This was the serious fire for 2009. "How is this possible?" you might ask. How can the radios work fine 99% of the time, except when you need them the most? I think the answer is - the radio procedure is faulty. Every time this FD goes to a box alarm, the dispatcher says - "all units switch to Ch 2". No one ever switches to Ch2, probably because the dispatcher cant hear anyone on Ch2. And Ch1 (a repeater channel) usually works fine. (Ch2 is "direct" on the output freq of the repeater). Whenever this FD conducts live fire training, they calmly switch over to Ch2, so they dont annoy the 911 Center dispatchers. How much do you want to bet that Ch3 is the Police freq? The officer on the ladder clicked 1 stop too far on his portable radio. Now - we are 33% short on line officers at the scene. (1 out of 3) Luckily it was a small house - and the fire was apparently not terribly bad - and a female was rescued - whether she wanted to be rescued is open for discussion possibly. I dont know all the details. Such is life in the big city. PS - the FD could easily stay on Ch1 - they only run 3 E & 1L - and they have the channel all to themselves. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/massfire?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
