July 2023 - procedures are the same essentially as 1 year ago medical calls and minor calls are done entirely on Channel 1
long tone was heard at beginning of 1 box alarm - maybe 8 seconds - maybe 5 seconds - approx 10 beeps also Cataldo ambulances sign on to CH 1 when responding to medical calls with Chelsea FD units - they give their ETA boxes are not beeped on CH 1 - 3 beeps maybe proceed any announcement of an 'allout' July 5 2023 - 855 am - 5 minutes to radio test - 900 am - test of all inservice units - dispatcher calls rollcall and each unit replys - Eng 1 2 3 Tower 1 Ladder 2 Car 3 - pause - (maybe Cr 3 tested on ch2 and ch3) - test complete all units give arrival and status messages verbally - apparently they do not have MDTs July 5 2023 - 354 pm - 1 honk - Eng 2 and Tower 2 sent to fire alarm (system activation) - (iirc they stayed on CH1 for this call) 1800 hours - station ID by dispatcher and temperature given On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 8:59 AM Peteri Szerlagi <[email protected]> wrote: > > no boxes beeped > > ch 1 is 470.025R ch 2 is 482.2375R > > chirps on ch 1 - then box alarm announced by FAO - "ch2 is fg" > > no radio traffic between initial dispatch and arrival - no honks or > chirps either > > OIC arrives on Ch 2 - all comms at scene on Ch 2 - FAO is on Ch 2 also > > morse code ids on ch 2 - BAD BAD BAD - get rid of them - will mess up > any direct comms - they can do direct comms on Ch2 cant they? - can > they talk to fao on ch 2 direct? - radio ref shows ch4 as ch 1 direct > - maybe ch 2 direct would be ch 5 > > OIC requests allout on ch 2 - OK by FAO > > Ch 1 - 3 beeps - allout announced by FAO > > FAO = fire alarm office / dispatcher > > phantom box 926 was received - dispatcher said address was 305 > commandants - fao followed by saying phantom box 926 was actually box > 9251 at 285 commandants - car 3 found nothing at 305 - Ladder found > alarms at 285 - faulty detector in attic maybe > > afaik a phantom box only exists on paper in the FAO - how did they > "receive" a phantom box? -- 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/CAFXWwKaTmZCBi%3DnKi5KZBWw90jqYCfTOKBN2y9MOPE0XAbXePg%40mail.gmail.com.
