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Emergency Activations
What does your department do for an emergency radio activation. I'm not talking about a mayday. A situation where you have a gun pointed at you or something similar where you can't tell dispatch what is going on. Is there a code you use, or a certain phrase or word? We are trying to develop a sop about it. Right now our dispatchers ask us why we have an emergency activation,its very counterproductive..
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Permalink Reply by Ben Waller on
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I could tell you, but then it wouldn't be a secret.
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Permalink Reply by Brian Dumser on
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Yeah I'm with Ben, if I post it here, it defeats the purpose.
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Permalink Reply by Tony P on
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Certainly something that needs to be devised in-house to me. You and your dispatchers...
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Permalink Reply by John Crabbe on
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Similar to Ralph, we also have an emergency button on the radio. Actually we have one by the mic key and one by the volume/channel select knob. So if activated the radio goes to the EMERGENCY channel and dispatch gets an alarm signal where they can notify the battalion chief or even police.
Not a fail safe system, but dispatch knows you are on the call. Inadvertant activation does happen on fire scenes and dispatch notifies the battalion chief "we have emergency activation from Engine 4 FF"......the person who activated the radio won't hear that transmission because they are now on a seperate channel.
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That's what we've got also.
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Permalink Reply by Andrew Salinger on
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thats what the ambo's down here have but they also do most of their radio traffic in coded numbers. So they have a code for everything from the patient's status to a duress code. They jump on the radio and say a numerical code and dispatch knows what the situation is.
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Permalink Reply by Mark Oomkes on
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Used to have a code that was to be used by cops, FF, EMS but last time I asked about it, no one knew what it was. I still remember.
So, I'm going with no.
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thats problably a better way of doing it. Less to remember.
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Hatfield on
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We have a button on the top of the radio that activates an open frequency, holds the air open for 2 minutes and during that time we basically try and communicate what is happening, for example talking to the person with the Gun or Knife asking them to put it down.
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Code 99
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Permalink Reply by Kelly Walls on
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Like others I dont want to give out this information on FFN, but if you will email me I will be to share some insight as to how we address this problem
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Permalink Reply by scott gardiner on
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Thanks, for those who don't want to put it up on here then send me a message with what you do. My problem is that we have the red button for emergencies on our radios. If I have an emergency activation IE: held up at gunpoint our dispatchers usually ask if you have an emergency,well! If I do I can't say it.. We do however have a lot of accidental activations,so they are kind of complacent about them. I have a feeling they way I would like to see this develop is for dispatch to say nothing at all and just listen to see what is going on.
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