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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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“Long-nosing”… a practice lost to technology
AVL: Taking the fun out of being "almost there" The first generation of mobile data computers required the officer or operator to push a button to indicate status of the company: Enroute, On Scene,...
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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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Inside Superdome operations center when the lights went out.
Solving problems as professionals Most folks involved in operations remain focused on their tasks. They plan for problems and consider options. Some civilians speculate that panic occurs when a...
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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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Calling 9-1-1 Lands Drunk in Jail
Only Wanted Help Getting Out of Her Car A BILLINGS, MONTANA, WOMAN was tossed into the slammer last week after she called 9-1-1 to get someone to help her walk from her car into the house. The...
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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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Product Review – Mobile Scanner App
The 5-0 Radio Pro Mobile App Reviewed by Mark Donovan I'm not quite the FireGeezer's age, but we both share the same "I could care less" about all these new electronic gadgets and gizmos. That being...
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“9-1-1 Facebook …. What Is Your Emergency?”
Another Group Making Forrest Gump Look Like a Genius SOME INTELLECTUALLY-CHALLENGED web surfers in Los Angeles, California, became upset Friday when the Facebook server in their region went down for...
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Radioman “Outs” Himself
"Just Call Me Dave" FAMED DISPATCH SCANNER AND RECORDIST "RADIOMAN" has shed his anonymnity. After 3+ years of monitoring and live-streaming fire activity in the greater Chicago area, he has decided...
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London: 999 should not be the first call for an entrapped animal
Chimps, hamsters, kittens and dogs … oh my! A facebook message from our London Fire Brigade colleages: In the last 6 years we've been called out to a chimp in a chimney, an adult hamster in a disabled...
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EMS leaders consider industry conditions at Pinnacle
" … the most innovative and thought-provoking event of the year" The seventh annual Pinnacle EMS Leadership and Management conference continues the tradition of providing data-rich descriptions...
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London Fire Brigade rescues seven from apartment fire
Press release from the London Fire Brigade The London Fire Brigade has said this morning that firefighters in south London have saved the lives of seven people after a fire broke out at a block of...
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First arriving crew at Lewisham apartment fire in London
Lewisham Green Watch Lewisham Green Watch (pictured) were the first at the scene of the serious flat fire in Lewisham early this morning. From left to right; Crew Manager Simon...
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Four Firefighters Disciplined For Not Responding To A 9-1-1 Call
Not Deliberate, But a Mistake in Communications FOUR MEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS, FIREFIGHTERS have been given disciplinary actions for their parts in a dispatching error on July 13 in which a medical...
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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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But They Haven’t Even Learned How to Use the Satellite Radios Yet
Hey, Ma! My promotion to "Balloonist" Came Through! FROM THE "IT LOOKS GOOD ON PAPER" department comes another brilliant idea from a government agency, this time the Federal Communications...
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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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