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Promotional Opportunities in Illinois

By in Firegeezer at May 23, 2013 at 9:23 am
Fire Chief Calls In False Alarm Read More »

Chicago Warehouse Fire Update

By in Firegeezer at January 24, 2013 at 12:37 pm
Rekindle, Audio, Video and More Read More »
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“Twitter 9-9-9, What is Your Emergency (in 140 Characters or Less)?”

By in Firegeezer at December 19, 2012 at 12:47 pm
London Fire Brigade Wants to Tweet With You Read More »

Newtown Radio Traffic

By in Firegeezer at December 14, 2012 at 9:45 pm
Police / Fire / State Police Channels Read More »
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Looking Back

By in Firegeezer at November 22, 2012 at 4:17 pm
Automatically Records All Incoming Emergency Calls Read More »
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Gas Fumes Dump Detroit Dispatch Center

By in Firegeezer at October 9, 2012 at 12:58 pm
THE DETROIT, MICHIGAN, EMERGENCY DISPATCH CENTER was evacuated just before noon today as the building was filling up with "natural gas" fumes. Read More »
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Four Firefighters Disciplined For Not Responding To A 9-1-1 Call

By in Firegeezer at August 18, 2012 at 10:45 am
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. Read More »

Radioman “Outs” Himself

By in Firegeezer at May 26, 2012 at 2:33 pm
FAMED DISPATCH SCANNER AND RECORDIST "RADIOMAN" has shed his anonymnity. Read More »

Dispatcher Falls Asleep While Taking Call – Starts Snoring on the Phone

By in Firegeezer at May 22, 2012 at 9:38 am
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. Read More »
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LAFD Response Times Dip After Station Shutdowns …. (No! Really?)

By in Firegeezer at May 19, 2012 at 8:23 am
Anybody Besides the Fire Chief and Mayor Surprised at This? Read More »

Fire Department Says “No” to Sore Fingers

By in Firegeezer at March 22, 2012 at 1:17 pm
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. Read More »

LAFD Woes Continue

By in Firegeezer at March 18, 2012 at 1:39 pm
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. Read More »

Dispatcher Creates 90-Minute Delay on Working House Fire

By in Firegeezer at February 11, 2012 at 1:27 pm
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. Read More »

Another Street Box System to be Discontinued.

By in Firegeezer at January 24, 2012 at 1:48 pm
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 notifications" can be made. Read More »

Morning Lineup – December 16

By in Firegeezer at December 16, 2011 at 8:00 am
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. Read More »
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Booze in the Nose.

By in Medic Three at November 13, 2011 at 12:49 am
of "alcohol on her breath". I've started a lot of charts like this. Seen PD run reports that said the same. I've seen it testified to in court....  And it is pretty interesting, in part because you can't smell alcohol. Sure, you can smell booze--the oth… Read More »

Morning Lineup – October 17

By in Firegeezer at October 17, 2011 at 8:10 am
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. Read More »

Daft Dispatch Priorities Deny Apprehension of Drunk Driver

By in Firegeezer at September 24, 2011 at 12:58 pm
"Sir, You're Not Allowed to Use Your Phone While Driving" Read More »
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London Ambulance Service goes back to manual call taking

By in Firegeezer at June 8, 2011 at 5:52 pm
New call-taking computer crashes, thank goodness for paper and pencils. Read More »
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Dispatcher Tells Caller That He’s In a Place That Doesn’t Exist, Refuses to Dispatch an Ambualnce

By in Firegeezer at May 31, 2011 at 12:28 pm
THE VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA, AMBULANCE SERVICE has had to publicly apologize for failing to dispatch an ambulance promptly when the caller was told that he was in a non-existent location Read More »

Don’t They Have Street Drills Anymore?

By in Firegeezer at May 24, 2011 at 11:37 am
It’s hard on the head. You’re standing there, you’re waiting and they go the other way. Three times, can’t they get it right? Read More »
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A New Record For Prank 9-1-1 Calls

By in Firegeezer at May 4, 2011 at 1:54 pm
A FAYETTE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, MAN is in jail after being arrested Tuesday night and charged with 2,760 counts relating to six charges involving 9-1-1 abuse. Read More »

Cleveland Call-Taker Mis-Codes Ambulance Emergency, Fails to Dispatch

By in Firegeezer at April 27, 2011 at 12:04 pm
A CLEVELAND WOMAN saw her son choking and was afraid that he was going to die right before her eyes ... Read More »
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Press “1″ for English

By in Firegeezer at April 12, 2011 at 9:31 am
What's different is that instead of the dispatcher following up with a vocal over the radio, an automated voice takes over and announces the dispatch. Read More »

Bureaucrats Bungle Another One

By in Firegeezer at March 5, 2011 at 7:57 am
THIS TIME IT'S FROM THE WORLD'S CAPITAL of bungling bureaucrats, Washington, D. C. Read More »

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