Connecticut mutual aid channels

https://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?aid=827

Connecticut interops freqs

this looks spiffy - BUT -

note that 45.86 has 3 different PLs - that is base to base ops only

unknown if 453 mhz ems freqs really exist or are used

fire aid channels are also VFIRE channels

STOCS is a transportable system - it is not predeployed - it is UCall
and Vcall channels

155.34 is the nationwide amb to hosp channel

so - of all of those channels - maybe 1 or 2 are useful to anyone

of course this is WAY over the head of 99% of the public safety staff
in Connecticut

it should be easy as sin - "your radio has a bank of disaster
channels" - "when you are responding to a disaster, someone will tell
you to switch to one of the disaster channels" - DONE - FINNITO

Mutual aid communications in Maine

http://www.maine.gov/tools/whatsnew/attach.php?id=22705&an=3

Maine guidance regarding CONOPs channels and Region Nets

[I think that the map is wrong - I think that Ossipee is in Waterboro
in York County - not way up by Spruce in Oxford County - there is a
huge hole in York County without the Waterboro site]

As I read thru that document - it appears that the Region Nets are
always monitored by a Maine State Police dispatcher - it also appears
that the Region Nets that are listed as "Patch" are also always
monitored by a Maine State Police dispatcher and also carry MSP audio
on a 24/7 basis - apparently it is a one way patch - from MSP to
Region Net but NOT from Region Net to MSP - they also use VCALL 10 as
the hailing channel at an incident - maybe Maine State Police
dispatchers also monitor that channel 24/7

They have a plan in place that requires that the local agency call
Maine EMA via telephone to request activation of the CONOPs plan -
this causes a teletype message to be sent out - but not much else

One big glitch with this system is that some of the CONOPs channels
are probably heavily used for day to day ops. 154.31 is used for FD
paging and ops in Washington County. 155.16 might still be a Sheriff
tac channel in York County. 155.16 is probably heavily used by SAR and
Ski Patrol groups. 154.71 and 154.695 and 155.475 might be heavily
used by police departments and sheriff departments.

They could simplify things greatly by ensuring that MSP dispatchers
monitor VCALL 10 24/7 - and make it general knowledge that VCALL 10
will be the hailing channel for any "disasters" - with "disasters"
being defined as any emergency that overwhelms the local day to day
radio channels. (I think this is the general nationwide concept behind
VCALL 10)

Most counties in Maine have countywide channels to supplement the
local channels. The CONOPs channels could be viewed as the "state
mutual aid channels" or the "disaster mutual aid channels". (The
fallback channels after the local and county channels have been
overwhelmed.)

Lets says there was a bus crash. With 1 to 10 victims - the day to day
channels can probably suffice. For 10 or more victims - it would be
nice to be able to use the CONOPs channels as extra onscene channels -
and to use the Region Nets and VCALL 10 as extra "command" (scene to
Dispatch Office) nets

Of course if all of the FDs had all of the VFIRE channels - there
would never be any need for them to use the CONOPs channels.
Especially if they also had all of the VTAC channels. Between the
VFIRE and VTAC channels they would have approximately 12 common tac
channels in every FD radio in Maine.

New fire resistant coating for steel is 50% cheaper

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-fire-resistant-coating-failure-steel.html

developed in Singapore

$16B in video ad fraud this year

https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/remember-tom

No Irish Need Apply

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/08/insider/1854-no-irish-need-apply.html

ethnic / racial / religious bigotry has a long history in the USA

Not Ghosts

https://twitter.com/paulcombsart/status/922125575023669248

EMS cartoon - calls gone bad

USA has high pollution death rate

https://twitter.com/SafetyPinDaily/status/921811845693939712

When local cops drive tanks

https://twitter.com/SafetyPinDaily/status/921786859314864128

militarization of police warriors

Fleeing Felon Rule

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleeing_felon_rule

1985 USA changed the law - shooting fleeing people in the back was no allowed

"Police Activity" channel at YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXMYxKMh3prxnM_4kYZuB3g/featured

many webcam videos of police shootings

Mandalay Bay - FD radio comms

https://archive.org/details/NVLasVegasFireOct12017951PMMandalayBayMassacre - comms start approx 16:00 minutes into this 30 minute tape from Broadcastify.com

https://archive.org/details/NVLasVegasFDOct120171021PMMandalayBayMassacre - Tape 2 - from 1021 PM to 1051 PM approximately

==============================

Update Nov 4 2017

https://www.statter911.com/2017/11/03/fire-department-radio-traffic-released-las-vegas-shooting-rampage/
- also - news media is suing for 911 tapes and PD radio

Silsbee Texas - mom & 5 kids died in Weds fire

http://www.khou.com/news/autopsy-results-show-silsbee-mom-her-five-kids-died-from-smoke-inhalation-in-wednesday-fire/484672912

no smoke detector

45 minute video about Mel Brooks vs Nazis

https://youtu.be/62cPPSyoQkE - the intricacies of sarcasm and ridicule

Killings by USA police are undercounted by 50%

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/11/police-killings-counted-harvard-study

Las Vegas update - timeline

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/918905401583607808

this is a 3 minute video of the Sheriff explaining the timeline of the October 1 2017 shooting incident in Las Vegas Nevada USA - I think the bottom line is - 

2155 hours (955PM) approx maybe - Guard Campos dispatched to check door on floor 32 - maybe mtnce also dispatched at that time - [I am guessing about this time]

2159 - Campos arrives on floor 32 - encounters barricaded door - has to go to other level and return to floor 32

2205 - Campos returns to floor 32 - takes fire - calls for help - perp starts firing on crowd

2219 - cops arrive on floor 32

Sheriff refused to answer shouted question as he left the press conference - when did hotel call 911?

Las Vegas Police took 18 minutes to respond

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-las-vegas-guard-20171010-story.html

959 guard shot

1005 attack begins

1017 police get to floor 32 with armed hotel guards

1120 door breached

there were cops already in the hotel on a previous incident

USA - confidence in public institutions has been falling

https://twitter.com/emily_lecoz/status/917047837132840960

falling since 1970s

Zergs big adventure with Xfinity

Randomly the other day I checked my network connection. I saw some
cellphone that I did not recognize. As soon as I went to the Xfinity
website to check the gateway - the phone went away. But I had already
grabbed a screenshot of it. It was an old smartphone.

Today I was on the phone with Xfinity for an hour. Thy admitted that
it was not normal. I got bumped up to the security group and all he
suggested was to change my password and run a security scan. He
sounded like Garret Morris from the old SNL.

I offered to send the screenshot to them but they couldn't give a
shat. They also said they had no indication of any cellphone on my
network recently.

Does this ring a bell with anyone? Are hackers breaking into Xfinity
WiFi gateways / home routers using old smartphones?