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depuuty fire chiefs will have tone activated monitors at home police car horns will be sounded by dispatcher (no portable radios back then) iirc it was all on 158.76 - Unit 3 was ID for police dispatcher - car 39 was the patrol wagon / ambulance - Unit 5 was the fire dispatcher - Car 55 was the deputy chief / platoon chief / OIC iirc - Unit 7 was the DPW dispatcher was 59 the FD rescue truck aka rescue 1? there was and still is a 100 foot steel antenna tower on top of the police station on central street - never knew that they had a base on park circle also - but it makes sense - not sure how they switched back and forth -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/massfire/CAFXWwKbfdfn7oq9-RDc-%2BkCtRf5ctdNq__gYdS-W0DSM4se%2BGw%40mail.gmail.com.
