Tones going out for a structure fire
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Published 2009-02-27
All Comments (21)
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Its been 15 years and I can still remember the exact tone for our station
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Your department's tones sound just like ours. I almost got up and ran out the door.
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When I had to get up EARLY in the morning I used this. I quit my job & got rid of this as my alarm. Adding it back to the alarm as I'm going back to work for the spring-summer & Fall. I've listened to the other pagers going off & this one is my definite favorite. Stay safe out there bud #FirefightersMatter
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I've never been an emergency service person of any type but one of my former buddies was a firefighter. We heard 3 or 4 explosions within 30 seconds almost 10 miles away. The way our county "announcement" system used to be set-up, they had all of the codes needed to announce every vehicle necessary for any type of situation to any degree of multiple alarms. They simply type in the details of the condition and the "pre-set" dispatch mode showed how to dispatch who and when.
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the minitor V has 8 musical alerts that can be set for when the tones go off, the first one is used for the townwide tones, 2nd is for ems, 3rd is for riverton fire, 4th is pleasant valley, i also have another one in for new hartfords tone
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lol I tricked my dad into thinking tones where droping😂😂
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That's a LOT of companies! Where I'm from, only 2 or 3 companies go for a structure fire.
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We just started a ride along program, literally a month before I could go for level 1, I could have been a ride along for half a year if we had introduced that earlier. It's a good thing for the newer kids, though!
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exactly...out here there are very small departments, we need the help. usually nepaug sends 1 or 2 engines and the tanker, barkhamsted east sends a tanker, riverton a tanker, pine meadow an engine, new hartford 2 engines and a tanker sometimes the rescue, and pleasant valley sends the rit team
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Such a sweet sound...
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@nhfdcadet any way to play music thru this? I know it may sound terrible but is it possible, like a short range transmitter on 155.1075Mhz?
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I can't remember how long ago it was (more than 10 years ago)...but we had a fire with explosions at some type of heavy industrial building in one of the towns near the Delaware River over here in Burlington County NJ. It took 4 minutes of constant tones and "announcements" to call all of the equipment that was needed.
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what frequency does this pager use? I'd maybe use one of these as an audio link or even tap the volume control and make a mini amp.
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I have an old Minitor 1 that still works great! I dropped it in a bucket of water a few times and it was completely submerged but after it dried out, it still worked! I don't run calls anymore but I still get excited when it goes off. A lot of companies have now switched over to only alpha pagers but some use minitors or both.
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I love being a junior we get to roll out on the rigs whenever depending on the call
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San Francisco CA has the one of the best Fire Department teams in the entire US and no excuses
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By the time he had entered the details for a 5 alarm fire at this specific location his screen was so lit up with companies to call that it took him 4 minutes of constant "tapping and announcing"..."tapping and announcing" to call every truck that was needed. I'm sure that the total number of "2 tone" pages (which is what our county still uses today) that were tapped out that day was somewhere around 12 or 13 tones between all the ladders and tankers and ambulances and fire police etc...
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Must be one hell of a fire to send out that many tones.
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Sounds like Litchfield County Dispatch in northwestern CT. I randomly clicked on this video and immediately recognized the dispatcher's voice and dispatched departments.
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@Timmeh98837 yeah they do things kinda differently here, they tone out each call twice, they activate the pagers, dispatch it, then they tone it out again with the siren tones too...this is the 2nd activation
