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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I could tell you, but then it wouldn't be a secret.
Yeah I'm with Ben, if I post it here, it defeats the purpose.
Certainly something that needs to be devised in-house to me. You and your dispatchers...
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.
That's what we've got also.
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.
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.
thats problably a better way of doing it. Less to remember.
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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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
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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