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Gas Fumes Dump Detroit Dispatch Center
Found to Have Come From an Outside Source THE DETROIT, MICHIGAN, EMERGENCY DISPATCH CENTER was evacuated just before noon today as the building was filling up with "natural gas" fumes. The employees...
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Newtown Radio Traffic
Police / Fire / State Police Channels By now everyone has been exposed to the full tv coverage of today's horrific tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. There is nothing more to be said or added to it, at...
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“Twitter 9-9-9, What is Your Emergency (in 140 Characters or Less)?”
London Fire Brigade Wants to Tweet With You The Deputy Commissioner of the London Fire Brigade, Rita Dexter thinks there is a Tweet in your future if you need help. Quoting that there are a billion...
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Chicago Warehouse Fire Update
Rekindle, Audio, Video and More WE HAVE MORE TO REPORT on yesterday's vacant warehouse fire that the Chicago FD called their "largest fire in several years." See yesterday's Firegeezer report HERE....
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Promotional Opportunities in Illinois
Fire Chief Calls In False Alarm GARY CHAPMAN IS NOW THE FORMER Fire Chief of the Blackhawk Fire Protection District in Milan, Illinois. He stepped down from office after admitting to the police that...
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Train vs. Commuter Bus in Ottawa
At Least 5 Dead – More Expected UPDATE #1 – Videos added. Scroll down. UPDATE #2 – Casualty figures updated. UPDATE #3 – Additional details, photos added. UPDATE #4 – Early dispatch and situation...
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Dispatcher Goes Dipping Too
Who Needs Checkbooks To Do This? A FIRE DISPATCHER IN SUBURBAN ROCHESTER, New York, was arrested and charged with stealing over $65,000 by claiming overtime that he did not work. The Democrat &...
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Another Dispatch Doozey
Bound To Become a 9-1-1 Legend FIREFIGHTERS AND POLICE GET SOME crazy calls, but it's the dispatchers and call takers that get all the crazy calls. The Waukesha, Wisconsin, emergency call center is...
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Dispatchers on LWOP Following Fatal Fire
Units Sent To Location 15 Miles Away TWO LUZERNE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, DISPATCHERS have been placed on leave without pay pending an investigation into fatal fire last week in Mocanaqua. WBRE-TV The...
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That story got me to thinking (a sometimes dubious exercise) about just how prepared our call-takers and dispatchers are when it comes to this sort of communications.
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A bill is working its way through the U. S. Congress that will allow monitored alarm signals to bypass the alarm company's switchboards and go directly to the 9-1-1 dispatch center.
View ArticleAnother Street Box System to be Discontinued.
BLOOMFIELD, NEW JERSEY, FIRE CHIEF Joseph McCarthy told the Town Council yesterday (Monday) that the city's 120-yr.-old Gamewell Telegraph fire alarm system will be discontinued soon after the "proper...
View ArticleDispatcher Creates 90-Minute Delay on Working House Fire
THE DENVER, COLORADO, FIRE DEPARTMENT is in damage-control after a call-taker in the emergency dispatch center decided to disregard a 9-1-1 call for a "smell of smoke" in a neighborhood.
View ArticleLAFD Woes Continue
THE VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN FOR MAYOR of Los Angeles (California) is exposing more failures of the City Council and the Mayor. Among the agencies which are coming up short is the Fire Department.
View ArticleFire Department Says “No” to Sore Fingers
THE CITY OF FULTON, NEW YORK, has sent a letter to the Oswego County E-911 Administrator asking them to remove the city's fire department from responding to non-emergency medical calls.
View ArticleLAFD Response Times Dip After Station Shutdowns …. (No! Really?)
Anybody Besides the Fire Chief and Mayor Surprised at This?
View ArticleDispatcher Falls Asleep While Taking Call – Starts Snoring on the Phone
A MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND, FIRE and Rescue dispatcher had to be relieved on the job last month when he fell asleep during an emergency call.
View ArticleRadioman “Outs” Himself
FAMED DISPATCH SCANNER AND RECORDIST "RADIOMAN" has shed his anonymnity.
View ArticleFour Firefighters Disciplined For Not Responding To A 9-1-1 Call
FOUR MEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS, FIREFIGHTERS have been given disciplinary actions for their parts in a dispatching error on July 13 in which a medical patient died.
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