reposting On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM Peteri Szerlagi <[email protected]> wrote: > > radio traffic from dc side of river > > heard via openmhz > > at 2049 pm - on Marine Interop 1 TG - somebody told DC Fireboat 2 that > they had received a report via the crash phone that a helo was down at > Regan Airport - that dispatcher might have been the DCPD Marine Patrol > dispatcher or maybe it was USCG > > at 2051 - fireboat was saying something on the Main TG for DCFD - they > reported that FB2 and FB3 were enroute to Regan Airport > > at 2052 - units were told to operate on Airport Channel 3 Lima > > 2053 - mention of a water rescue assignment - request for PG Co > fireboat and Alexandria FB 301 > > 2055 - on DCFD Dispatch channel - multi units dispatched - sounded > like E7 E13 E18 Tr10 Tr7 Sqd3 Sqd1 HM23Foam 1 TCU Med Amb Bus 1 and 2 > etc > > 2055 - DC Mike 1 underway - maybe dc pd police boat > > 2055 - DCFD E7 calls FB1 on DCFD Main Channel > > you can see that it took 6 minutes for DCFD to get their main response > out the door > > it seems that an alert 3 at DCA airport is pretty lame - just the > airport fd and pd units respond - and anyone else they think of asking > for - like random fireboats - maybe 1 fire truck comes from Dulles > Airport also > > an Alert 2 at Logan Airport in Boston seems to get more of a response > than an Alert 3 at Regan - an Alert 3 is an actual crash - an alert 2 > is a possible crash > > Alert 2 at Logan gets all airport fire trucks plus 1 boston eng and 1 > boston lad and 1 boston amb and 1 boston ems supervisor plus maybe 1 > boston fd boat plus maybe uscg or boston pd boat > > Alert 3 at Logan probably also gets 5 engines from boston and 2 > ladders and 1 or 2 rescue trucks - maybe even a task force of heavy > rescue trucks > > one thing that dampened down the Regan airport response was people > saying "a helicopter crash' - it was not just a helicopter crash by > any stretch of the imagination - but minimalization was running full > bore
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