listening to broadcastify feed yesterday calls are announced once - not sure what channel they are on - preceded by a warble tone / siren tone
all calls seems to be assigned to Command 1 or Command 2 it seems that Command 1 is the main channel / home channel / prime channel - all minor incident s are handled on Command 1 any 2 or more company calls are handled on Command 2 it seems portable radio test at 805 am had 3 radios per unit usually - alpha bravo charlie - engine and trucks - there was also tac 1 and tac 3 which had 2 people each - tac 1 and tac 3 went to ems calls and mva calls - iirc they are minipumpers - there is also Rescue 1 "Fire Alarm" is the dispatcher iirc they use the words 'cancel' or 'clear' to tell units they are no longer need at an incident - ie "Engine 5 you can clear" 3 car mva with injuries at union station got Engine 1 and Tac 1 false alarms at hotels got 1 engine and 1 truck medical calls got 1 tac or 1 engine - AMR also went to the medical calls but they were not heard on any of the fire radio feed might have heard 1 unit testing on a simplex channel also - maybe was analog command 1 and command 2 are usually P25 by the sound of it truck 1 went out of service for mechanical issue - crew was using Med 98 vehicle - only available for fire and ems and elevator and CO calls Heavy Rescue 1 radio test had Chief 1 Chief 2 Eng 1 Truck 1 Tac 1 Eng 2 Eng 3 Truck 3 Tac 3 Eng 4 Truck 4 Eng 5 (who had a delta radio also) Eng 6 Eng 7 Eng 8 Truck 8 Rescue Squad (thought they had a delta but they really didnt) Arson 5 -- 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/CAFXWwKY3So7KLb05kC46Hzdhi47OaZ%3DHWeaSkhOcpmEuViaH2Q%40mail.gmail.com.
