Posts Categorized: Dispatch
Double-LODD in Connecticut
They were able to send out a mayday call and the RIT got to them quickly, but despite having CPR perfomed on the scene, but they were pronounced dead at the hospital.
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Overheard on the Squawk Box…
An exchange between another unit and dispatch...
Unit 303c: Metro, 303c.
metro: go ahead 303c
303c: Metro, we're going to be 10-8.... This one was just pretend. No ambulance needed.
After an unusually long delay...
metro: 10-4, 303c. Sorry about that. We're just trying to keep it real. Real Good. (with faint laughter in the background)
Had to chuckle a little.
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Never a Dull Day at Dispatch
THE FAYETTE COUNTY, OHIO, 9-1-1 CENTER got one of those memorable moments early Friday morning when a man called in to say he was trapped on the rear of a semi-trailer truck and couldn't get off.
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Keystroke Error Gets Dispatcher Suspended.
AN ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, DISPATCHER was put on unpaid leave Monday following an incident where she mistakenly sent rescue crews to the wrong address.
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Why it Hurts
The staff at these facilities leave something to be desired and the patients usually are fine. This has to be an overreaction, doesn't it?
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Desperate Spinster Dials 9-1-1 on Hubby Search
Police say, Audrey Scott, of Alliance, called 911 five times in an hour asking dispatchers to find her a husband.
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Smartphone Scanner App
JUICY DEVELOPMENT LLC, an Orem, Utah, software developer has just made available an Android version of its popular Police Scanner app
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Man Dies Waiting For Help at Empty Firehouse
WHEN 49-YR.-OLD Vincent T. Chodkowski of Carmel, Maine, began having a heart attack, he pulled onto the front ramp of Bangor FD's station 6 hoping to find help.
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Alaskan Automatic Alarm Dog
This image from Trooper Shanigan's dash cam shows Buddy leading him through the maze of forest roads to the house on fire.
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Louisville EMS Begins Patient Shifting
It involves screening low-priority 9-1-1 calls and diverting some patients from hospitals to more appropriate care providers.
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Attention: Dispatch Buffs and Historians
"I've got total devastation down here"
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Who Ya’ Gonna Call?
WHEN YOU ARE TRAPPED AND CAN'T FREE YOURSELF, you want someone to come and help set you free, preferably group of firefighters who arrive in a big red truck.
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Death by Computer Program
UNTOLD NUMBERS OF ACCIDENTAL DEATHS in the UK may have been prevented if not for the dispatching protocols.
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NYC Tries Once Again to Remove Street Alarm Boxes
NEW YORK CITY FIRE COMMISSIONER Salvatore Cassano told the City Council at a budget hearing on Wednesday that he plans to seek approval to remove the approximately 15,000 street alarm boxes from service.
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Morning Lineup – March 12
The Florida state legislature is considering a bill that would restrict the release of 911 recordings except under a court order showing "good cause.''
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Ambulance Dispatch Delay Being Investigated
A DISPATCHER IN PUNTA GORDA, FLORIDA, is on administrative reassignment today after an incident where an ambulance was not dispatched until 14 minutes after the call came in.
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Time to Move the Button
A NEW YORK CITY POLICE DISPATCHER WAS TAKING AN AMBULANCE CALL from Manhattan Thursday and mistakenly sent the ambulance to Brooklyn instead.
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4 Fire Officers Placed on Admin. Leave
FOUR DeKALB COUNTY, GEORGIA, FIRE OFFICERS WERE PLACED on administrative leave Monday following a fatal house fire early Sunday morning.
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Puzzling Policy Change in NYC Ambulance Dispatch Protocol
A high-ranking EMS chief said that the volunteers "are no longer required" to help cover the calls sent out for emergency medical services.
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Updates, etc.
UPDATES for some recent Firegeezer articles.
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Morning Lineup – November 20
...it breaks an important confidentiality with the citizen who has called you for help, not embarrassment.
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And He Thought This Would Work?
A RACINE COUNTY, WISCONSIN, DRIVER GOT WORRIED ..... REALLY WORRIED .... when he was pulled over for speeding this past Tuesday. Christopher Jones, 31, thought that he'd get the sheriff's deputy that stopped him to suddenly lose interest if something …
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This is Why We Have Street Drills
MOST OF THE REGIONAL AMBULANCE SERVICES in the UK have fully-implemented GPS systems in their rigs to assist in navigating to the incident scene. In fact, some of the ambulance trusts have gone so far as to require the crews to follow the system's dire…
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Getting An Early Jump on Haz-Mat Incidents
THE SULLIVAN COUNTY, INDIANA, 9-1-1 DISPATCH CENTER has just installed a free upgrade that was offered for their dispatch software. With this new feature that ties in with their mapping program, whenever an address is entered into dispatch that is list…
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"Who Was That Masked Man?"
WHILE THERE HASN'T YET BEEN AN OUTBREAK of the swine flu in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the fire and rescue department is making preparations to see that they reduce their chance of exposure.
AFD rescue crews are now wearing protective masks and gloves w…
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