twinoaks207
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Anyone listening to this? Sounds like they're having a bunch of problems...
Calvert scanner - firefighters?
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Bay_Kat
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I just turned it on, I might be wrong but it sounds like training. I'll listen for a bit more but for some reason it keeps cutting off.
twinoaks207
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What is "THIS"? can't hear nothing and my speakers are on......
In addition to police calls, I'm hearing a bunch of firefighters doing "mayday" calls & giving their locations with feet into the building, etc. I'm really hoping it's some kind of a training exercise & not a real fire somewhere.
If you haven't heard anything for a while, try disconnecting & reconnecting. It's been pretty active the last 15 minutes or so.
cattitude
My Sweetest Boy
Location?
cattitude
My Sweetest Boy
On a Friday night? :shrug:
Bay_Kat
Tropical
It's training, I'm hearing it now, more than likely it's Huntingtown.
cattitude
My Sweetest Boy
I sure hope so, I have son at Huntingtown.
twinoaks207
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Haven't heard that from them. If they do training like this live with command (I have no clue about this obviously) then it is probably that. I hear different people calling to command & reporting finding a helmet. command keeps telling them to check & make sure it's not theirs. The command people seem to sound very very calm so I'm hoping it's training.
Bay_Kat
Tropical
That's just it, they are very calm. I've heard so many fires and what they sound like during a real fire, they are never that calm.
twinoaks207
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Please share with me how you tell if it's training or not -- I've been sitting here getting really worried about these poor firefighters all getting trapped & putting out maydays (okay -- it's a blonde moment -- I have them every now & then..). Is it because the guys responding are responding rote & sounding kind of bored now?
Listening to this I think I should increase the annual contribution to the local fire department (volunteers, all!). They really do a dangerous job!
cattitude
My Sweetest Boy
Son is paid out of county and a volunteer with Huntingtown.
twinoaks207
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Thanks! I"m now reconsidering whether I really want the youngest in the junior firefighters thing..
Guess I should stop spending my Friday evenings listening to the scanner!
twinoaks207
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Please pass along my thanks to him for volunteering to risk his life here in Calvert! Thank God for him and others like him!
Bay_Kat
Tropical
They are very calm and they are calling out their names, they never call out their names on a real fire, and least not that I've ever heard.
Turned "WHAT" on? :confused"
twinoaks207
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thanks! Question -- so, if it was a real fire and they were doing a mayday, how would command know who it was? Do they use numbers or some other identifying feature? I'm very curious now -- I need to go find some of our vounteers & bug them with questions (when they're not busy of course!).
twinoaks207
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the scanner, I think...
Bay_Kat
Tropical
I've never actually heard a real mayday during a fire, but you'd hear a lot more departments responding and also there would be evacuation tones, also, you'll notice the dispatcher seems to be completely ignoring it, if it were real dispatch would definitely be involved.