South Hadley Mass had a small house fire yesterday apparently the Town of South Hadley is served by 2 fire districts - but they seem to operate pretty much as 1 FD - but have 2 different dispatch systems and 2 different radio channels
Broadcastify has 2 feeds for them - 1 is labeled as "South Hadley Fire" - that is the Fire District 2 feed - the other feed is labeled as "South Hadley Fire District 1" - that is the District 1 feed apparently - District 1 operates simplex on 151.175 and District 2 uses a repeater on 153.275 R District 1 sent Engine 1 and Tower 3 to the fire - District 2 sent Engine 4 to the fire The dispatch system seems to work like this - 911 calls are answered by the South Hadley Police dispatcher - that dispatcher then radios the info to the appropriate Fire District via their district radio channel - then the appropriate fire district dispatcher activates his pagers - somehow the 2nd fire district gets notified and that district dispatcher than activates his pagers on his channel - all responding units use the district channel of the district where the fire is located So for the fire call yesterday - radio traffic heard seemed to be - 151.175 - you have a fire on Berwyn St Ext - pagers activated - respond engine and tower to structure fire on Berwyn St - "going to call forwarding" - 153.275R - pagers activated - respond to fire at Berwyn St Ext not sure why they went to "call forwarding" - unless they left the District 1 base station unmanned for a couple of minutes eDispatches shows a couple of different entries - "SHadleyBox" and "SHFD2-FullTone" are 2 of them the radio IDs used by the various dispatchers include - "Radio" - maybe is the PD dispatcher - "District 2 Headquarters" aka "Headquarters" - maybe "7 oh 3" is the Fire District 1 base station command officers were X1 X5 X9 etc the Broadcastify archive for Fire District 1 was time compressed -- 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 on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/massfire/CAFXWwKbwQWiZK%3D6TN0Qs7dvs%3DcXWVgwwm7pGfJbpizK6wmu4SA%40mail.gmail.com.
