Thursday, January 31, 2019

Code Red can receive multi communitys alerts

https://twitter.com/LowellPD/status/1090983852577878016

Infant ibuprofen being recalled

https://twitter.com/boston25/status/1091116514734952448

response time vs weight of response

lets say that you have 1 fire station with four people on duty and
their average travel time is 4 minutes

therefore - on average - you have 4 people showing up all at once at
the 4 minute mark

if you converted over to 4 public safety officers - you would have -
the first PSO arrives on scene in 1 minute - the 2nd arrive in 2
minutes - the 3rd arrives in 3 minutes - and the 4th arrives in 4
minutes

I would much rather have 1 PSO show up in 1 minute than 4 show up in 4
minutes for just about EVERY kind of emergency - wouldn't you? I cant
think of any type of emergency that would be better handled by 4
showing up in 4 minutes.

Consider the response to a bld fire. Fire truck arrives at scene in 4
minutes with 3 people in PPE and SCBA. The driver just has PPE on.
What would the response of 4 PSO look like? First PSO would arrive in
1 minute and take 1 or 2 minutes to put on PPE and SCBA. 2nd PSO
arrives in 2 minutes and takes 1 to 2 minutes to put on PPE and SCBA.
Etc. So the PSO system has 1rst person in gear at scene in 3 minutes -
2nd person in gear at scene in 4 minutes - 3rd person on gear at scene
in 5 minutes. 4th person at scene in gear in 6 minutes. The PSO system
is slower than the legacy system. But building fires are very rare.

Bottom line - PSO system is worse for very rare events but 100 times
better for common events.

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note to self - I should probably assume that the fire station covers a
16 square mile area - lets say the fire engine responds at 30 MPH over
a 2 mile distance - so the engine will travel 4 minutes - either to
north, south, east, or west. This forms a square that is 4 miles by 4
miles - or 16 square miles

If there are 4 PSO to cover 16 square miles - then they need to cover
4 square miles each - that is 2 miles by 2 miles - so the average
response distance is 1 mile - at 60 MPH that is 1 minute response time
- or at 30 MPH that is a 2 minute response time.

note 2 - assume each PSO is in a minivan

Prosecutor not happy with Saint Louis PD

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/us/russian-roulette-cop-killing.html

first it was accident

then it was reverse russian roulette

now it is maybe a coverup for murder

Does California have any ice rescue equipment?

https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/1091047825696268289

gonna get chilly in Cali

DEA sees no crisis at the border

https://twitter.com/VP/status/1091035797925580801

the border "crisis" is not making life more dangerous for DEA agents

OK - good to know

Are the police really useful?

https://twitter.com/theintercept/status/1091046052864638977

Platelet dysfunction in trauma

https://twitter.com/JTraumAcuteSurg/status/1091006990598459394

why am I hearing Pittsburgh FD?

I don't have any Broadcastify feeds running. I turned off Pittsburgh
about 10 minutes ago and then turned on Grand County CO. I started to
hear Pittsburgh going to an alarm at a school at 950 am est ish so I
turned off the grand county feed. And I kept hearing Pittsburgh.

still hearing Pittsburgh - 38 engine - batt 1 at closed school - go to
response 1

gmail in edge is the only window that I have open

?????????

lets check task manager - just windows audio device graph and task
manager and Microsoft edge (11) is running - is that 11 instances of
edge - ????

FD convoy ops

FD convoy ops

just thinking outloud

when 2 or more fire units are responding together to an incident -
maybe the first unit should use wail - the 2nd unit should use high
low - the 3rd unit should use airhorn - then repeat for 4th 5th 6th
etc

maybe this would reduce the chance of a motorist pulling into the path
of the 2nd or 3rd unit accidentally - by giving drivers different
auditory cues

maybe even the odd Italian fire sirens can be used - ( a tweddly sound )

maybe even a slow up and down (British) can be used in addition to a
fast up and down noise

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Video 2016 - response to head on crash

https://youtu.be/Rx_BX09wmWw

Dixon MT

UPS driver made rescues

can hear radio comms

I think this is from a ham who is (was) a vol FF

Tuesday, January 29, 2019

32 minutes of video 1992 fires

https://youtu.be/pzaMQC7KAT4

Los Angeles County Fire

is that the LA Riots?

radio traffic heard - openness - pre live scanner audio

NIFC is open again

https://youtu.be/21kAEWq_y7g

the pretty girl says everything is fine - so I gotta believe her

Story about the Thailand cave rescue

https://twitter.com/tomgara/status/1090391601413873664

Waterville ME large mill on fire

4th alarm on arrival at 606pm est -
https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/ctid/1178

Cal Fire Press Conference - today - new fire plan

I think I missed the first 8 minutes - but I caught the following

$1B will be spent to improve forest health and reduce threat of fires

1 million acres per year will be treated - 50% state - 50% federal

working draft of plan should be available in May or June

plan should be certified in Dec 2019

after that may take 6 months for first projects to be approved under
the new plan

there are a total of 31 million acres under federal or state wildfire
responsibility in California

many solutions will be difficult - hardening structures is outside
scope of the plan - there is no one major cure

we really can improve the situation

bottom line - seems that they will be putting more money into fire
prevention - primarily thru forest treatments / thinning / chipping /
burning / etc - maybe in some new areas that have not been treated in
the past - no mention of response times nor firefighting effectiveness

Re: Cal Fire gearing up for 2019

someone is talking at the podium but the video feed keeps dying

On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 5:05 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
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> they started to stream then stopped - you might have to click on VIDEO
> at their facebook page
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> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 4:25 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > https://twitter.com/CAL_FIRE/status/1090351468966699008
> >
> > press conference 2PM PST

Re: Cal Fire gearing up for 2019

they started to stream then stopped - you might have to click on VIDEO
at their facebook page

On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 4:25 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
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> https://twitter.com/CAL_FIRE/status/1090351468966699008
>
> press conference 2PM PST

Cal Fire gearing up for 2019

https://twitter.com/CAL_FIRE/status/1090351468966699008

press conference 2PM PST

McArthur OH - 3 dead in medevac crash

https://www.ems1.com/helicopter-crash/articles/393318048-3-dead-in-Ohio-medical-helicopter-crash/

have you ever seen the airdrops using paper cartons? they have flaps
at the top and spin to the ground like a acorn leaf falling out of an
oak tree

which is sturdier? a medevac helo dropping 500 feet or a Mini Cooper
dropping 500 feet?

birdseye mt fire station

Birdseye MT FD got new station in 2015

https%3A%2F%2Fhelenamontanamaps.org%2FHtml5Viewer%2F%3Fviewer%3Dlewisandclark%26layerTheme%3Dnull%26scale%3D4513.988705%26basemap%3D%26center%3D-12485975.875854896%252C5889398.895574962%26layers%3D0mWllf
- this is link to county gis - hopefully it shows the aerial photo of
the new station - I can see the yellow paint of the handicap parking
spots - not sure if it is aerial photography or really good satellite

this is a story about "research via the Internet"

1. I am updating the zerg90 map of fire stations in Lewis and Clark
County Montana

2. the county has map on their website of all the fire districts - I
notice that Birdseye FD is now showing 2 stations

3. I go to Google Maps - I find 2 listings for Birdseye fire stations
- checking the street view from 2012, I can find just the old station
- the 2nd 'station' is just a big white bld with 1 bay door surrounded
on 4 sides by a fence -so its not a fire station - its a farm bld of
some sort

4. Using Google I find pictures of a new station that was built in
2015 - and a newspaper article - but no address or location info -
pictures show 6 bays ish with office attached

5. Going to Google satellite view I can see a new building near the
Sta 2 location - but the office is on the left side instead of the
right side

6. Going to the County GIS webpage - and selecting 2017 aerial photo -
I can now see the new station - it is 200 feet north of the other new
building that has the office on the wrong side - the assessor info
shows this as Birdseye Station 2 at 5316 Birdseye Rd

7. Bottom line - Google Maps has their marker only off by maybe 200
feet - but the 2012 street view and the ?2014 satellite view are of no
help

8. 2nd bottom line - sometimes it takes a while to get thru the muck
and more of the Internet - the info is out there - but it can take a
while to latch onto it

Saturday, January 26, 2019

2018 Moscow fire units - 7 minute video


interesting fire vehicles - engines - ladders - snorkels - minipumpers - etc

2014 - Russia donated 50 fire trucks to North Korea


look like 10 year old rigs maybe

2 minute video - donation ceremony

Buckingham Palace 2018 video


changing of guard

police at gate with machine guns

What will it take to control wildfires in 2019?

What will it take to control wildfires in 2019? There were huge wildland interface fires in 2017 and 2018. I have not seen any recommendations for changes yet. So allow me. Time is quickly running out. Fire doesnt care if it wipes out Democratic or Republican neighborhoods.

1. During Red Flags - everyone has to report to duty - police and fire and ems and dpw. All reserve units have to be staffed and out on patrol. Cops do 12 hour shifts. Everyone else can probably do the same.

2. If a medevac helo is closest to a wildfire during Red Flag conditions, then the medevac helo has to respond to the scene and guide first due units to the fire.

3. During Red Flags - response levels have to be doubled from the existing levels. Its is obvious that the existing response levels are far too low.

4. During Red Flags - every available aircraft in the area needs to be staffed. Police, military, civilian, medevac, Civil Air Patrol. The USA has thousands upon thousands of aircraft. But they are worthless when they are just sitting on the ground collecting dust.

5. This spring, every community needs to clear all vegetation 150 feet away from all state highways and interstates within interface zones. State highways and Interstates have to remain open at all costs. The electric companys need to have top level plans to rapidly kill power to any power lines that fall on state or interstate highways. (Exception - some state highways in extremely rural areas probably cannot be economically defended - perhaps the VLATs will have to be targeted at those areas)

6. In the near future - it shall be required that all essential government employees live within 1 mile of their work station - except if their work station is in a wilderness area - in which case they probably already have housing at the work station during duty hours.

7. Extra emphasis has to be placed on fire suppression after a fire front has passed thru a neighborhood. It is not as sexy as playing around at the fire front for the cameras; but it is vital.

8. The concept of driving fire trucks all around the USA to fight fires probably should be retired. It probably makes far more sense to beef up local resources. Keep in mind - many West Coast fire stations can be expanded by just adding some fencing and a lock. They dont get freezing weather. Ever.

9. If you think this is all overkill - then do a financial analysis of my proposals. If 2 more towns burn up in 2019 - and total losses are 1,000 dead and $20 billion in property losses - and if my suggestions cost $200 million - then ??????

This will be the Mueller Report in a nutshell


16 minute read

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bottom line - 

there has been collusion - and it will be prosecuted

Misc Items - maybe some were posted before







https://drive.google.com/open?id=1hWCTu6Uxz3xJAh_8JCroUdiSdNQ&usp=sharing - st petersburg russia - I bet I have a newer map - 12/15/2018






https://forums.radioreference.com/pennsylvania-radio-discussion-forum/338642-erie-county-p25-system-6.html - county trs vs statewide trs - erie county pa new trs coming online after 4 years

http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?aid=1008 - cal fire at radio ref - some units have 2 dispatch channels - many countys have no command channel







https://twitter.com/FHVigilance/status/1065256319001726978 - 5 foot section of hose next to nozzle






5 dead in Louisiana killing spree

https://twitter.com/CNNnewsroom/status/1089275182424846336

Simple Diagram of a Radio Repeater

https://archive.org/details/5thRepeaterDiagram

maybe I should say ........ " (via the wire) is immediately
REtransmitted on frequency B "

maybe not - since we are highlighting the difference between the
receiver and the transmitter

I hope this useful - Peter Sz

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

http://columbusco-ares.weebly.com/repeaters.html

another good diagram of a radio repeater here - with a good straightforward explanation

Road rage on Mass Turnpike

https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/01/25/two-men-arrested-in-mass-pike-road-rage-incident/

Mitt Zombie commented - I saw it and thought they were remaking TJ Hooker.

the radio tape should be at Broadcastify if anyone is interested -
there are 1 or 2 State Police feeds

1967 proposed CAD for LAFD

https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA054750/page/n27

development plan for computerized command and control system for Los
Angeles City Fire Department

Friday, January 25, 2019

Misc items - multi topics

6 hour response time for fbi command post - florida -
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/sebring-bank-shooting-5-dead-after-gunman-opens-fire-inside-suntrust-branch/ar-BBSEcT4?ocid=spartandhp


http://forums.radioreference.com/threads/scanner-user-saves-a-life.382402/
- scanner user saves a life - Pittsburgh - drive doctor with new
kidney to Erie PA - openness

https://twitter.com/EMSWorldNews/status/1088782322483240960 - cardiac
arrest vs kids

https://twitter.com/antoniowalkerp/status/1088784833487228928 - chile
- wildfire command center maybe - photos

http://forums.radioreference.com/threads/super-bowl-liii.380697/page-2
- super bowl comms info

http://forums.radioreference.com/threads/fdny-questions.381888/ - info
about FDNY portables and such

http://forums.radioreference.com/threads/multi-agency-search-for-missing-3-year-old.382526/
- north Carolina - kid foud after 2 days in woods

https://www.mtcradio.com/tyt-md-9600-dual-band-dmr-mobile-radio/ - ham
radio - this company also sells at least 1 scanner - sds200 iirc - and
there was a receiver that have 2000 channels or something like that -
$100 or $200 - maybe its the md9600

USA - 2018 tax incentives for sprinklers

http://www.elkgrove.org/government/village-departments/fire-department/fire-sprinkler-tax-incentives

new

Cal Fire Engines vs Massachusetts Engines

Cal Fire has approx. 300 fire stations in California - the federals
might have 300 wildfire stations also - Cal Fire stations usually have
2 bays at least - and often 3 bays - Cal Fire uses structural/wildland
pumpers with 500 gpm pumps and 500 gallon tanks of water - the
federals use Type 3 engines also but they don't have the structural
equipment (maybe) - the federals are also 500 gpm / 500 gallon - or
150 gpm / 500 gallon - the federal fire stations are usually 2 bay
minimum also

I just looked thru MassFireTrucks.com at the "A" FDs - acton ayer
Arlington etc - typical pumpers have 750 gallon water tanks - and most
pumps are 1500 gpm - Boston however uses 1250 GPM pumps and 560 gallon
water tanks - many rural pumpers have 1,000 gallon tanks or larger

so - what are we getting at?

Can pumpers be standardized nationwide? Can there be a nationwide rule
requiring every fire station to have at least one 500 gpm 500 gallon
pumper that is less than 10 years old? And a 2nd pumper as local
backup.

This would make life much simpler for any nationwide dispatcher. The
nationwide dispatcher could always get 1 pumper out of any station for
mutual aid calls - and still have 1 unit left to provide backup
coverage.

Of course this is all predicated on adequate staffing - the ability to
staff both units with 4 qualified firefighters. Of course they all
wouldn't be EMTs / extrication / rope / elevator / hazmat specialists.
But you would want people with basic firefighter training and basic
ems training - can wear scba - can raise a ground ladder - can fight a
basic incipient wildfire - can do a sizeup on a hazmat or car crash.
Can talk on a two way radio without getting all excited. You might
also want the ability to operate self contained for 1 week.

I guess the thought in the back of my mind is - it is kinda pointless
to have fire stations in every nook and cranny of the USA - but not
have adequate trained staff - and not have any (Interstate) road
worthy vehicles - is kinda a big drag on service delivery. Its also a
big drag to have millions of dollars of unstaffed fire equipment
during Red Flags.

athol mass - quint snorkel

http://www.massfiretrucks.com/Athol_Ladder_1_20102.jpg

2000 GPM - 300 gallon tank - 100 foot snorkel - wow

from 2006 - Bronto SkyLift

FEMA Daily Ops Brief for Friday Jan 25 2019 - no red flags today

Significant Activity – Jan 24-25



Significant Events: None



Significant Weather:

Heavy lake effect snow – Great Lakes
Wind Chill Warnings – portions of Upper/Middle Mississippi valleys



Tropical Activity: Western Pacific – No activity affecting U.S. interests



Declaration Activity: None

cough - roger stone

Thursday, January 24, 2019

US Military contracts awarded today - edited

Contracts For Jan. 24, 2019

AIR FORCE

Harris Corp., Space and Intelligence Systems, Colorado Springs,
Colorado, has been awarded a $72,261,464 cost-plus-incentive-fee and
cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the Combat Mission Systems Support
(CMSS) program. The CMSS contract will sustain the Space and Missile
Systems Center portfolio of ground-based electronic warfare systems
and develop the Counter Communications System Block 10.3. Work will be
performed in Colorado Springs, Colorado; and Palm Bay, Florida, and is
expected to be completed by Feb. 29, 2024. This award is the result of
a sole-source acquisition. Fiscal 2019 operations and maintenance
funds in the amount of $11,733,417; and fiscal 2018 research,
development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $8,190,818 are
being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Space and Missile
Systems Center, Los Angeles Air force Base, California, is the
contracting activity (FA8819-19-C-0002).



ARMY

Olin Corp. - Winchester Division, East Alton, Illinois, was awarded an
$85,131,683 modification (P00036) to contract W52P1J-16-C-0003 for
5.56mm, 7.62mm and .50 caliber ammunition. Work will be performed in
Oxford, Mississippi, with an estimated completion date of July 31,
2020. Fiscal 2017, 2018 and 2019 other procurement, Army funds in the
amount of $85,131,683 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S.
Army Contracting Command, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, is the
contracting activity.

L3 Technologies Inc., Victor, New York, was awarded a $68,964,170
modification (P00005) to contract W56JSR-17-D-0006 to test, inspect
and repair components of the CSS VSAT AN/TSC-183A system. One bid was
solicited via the internet with one bid received. Work locations and
funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated
completion date of Sept. 27, 2022. U.S. Army Contracting Command,
Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, is the contracting activity.

Ibis Tek Inc.,* Butler, Pennsylvania (W15QKN-19-D-0016); and O'Gara
Hess & Eisenhardt Armoring Company LLC,* Fairfield, Ohio
(W15QKN-19-D-0017), will share in a $49,500,000 firm-fixed-price
contract for armor hardware turret systems, platform integration kits,
spare parts and hardware kits. Bids were solicited via the internet
with 14 received. Work locations and funding will be determined with
each order, with an estimated completion date of Jan. 23, 2024. U.S.
Army Contracting Command, New Jersey, is the contracting activity.

AECOM Management Services Corp., Germantown, Maryland, was awarded a
$9,050,209 firm-fixed-price contract for the purchase of linear
demolition charge systems, spares and data items for the Assault
Breacher vehicle weapon system. One bid was solicited via the internet
with one bid received. Work locations and funding will be determined
with each order, with an estimated completion date of Jan. 17, 2024.
U.S. Army Contracting Command, Warren, Michigan, is the contracting
activity (W56HZV-19-D-0003).


NAVY

Thales Defense and Security Inc., Clarksburg, Maryland, is awarded a
$30,931,029 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the
continued procurement, manufacturing, testing and delivery of High
Frequency Distribution Amplifier Group system components and
engineering services. This contract has a five-year ordering period up
to the contract award amount. Work will be performed in Clarksburg,
Maryland (55 percent); and West Sussex, United Kingdom (45 percent).
Work is expected to be completed by January 2024. Contract actions
will be issued and funds obligated as individual delivery orders.
Fiscal 2018 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds will be placed on
contract with an initial delivery order issued shortly after award of
the base contract. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the
current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured
because it is a sole-source acquisition pursuant to the authority of
10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(1) - only one responsible source (Federal
Acquisition Regulation Subpart 6.302-1). The Space and Naval Warfare
Systems Command, San Diego, California, is the contracting activity
(N00039-19-D-0001).

Harper Construction Co., Inc., San Diego, California, is awarded
$17,281,265 for firm-fixed-price task order N6247319F4183 under a
previously awarded multiple award construction contract
(N62473-18-D-5853) for design and construction of a Marine Corps
Reserve Training Center and a vehicle maintenance facility at Naval
Weapons Station Seal Beach, California. The task order also contains
two planned modifications, which if exercised, would increase
cumulative task order value to $17,429,251. Work will be performed in
Seal Beach, California, and is expected to be completed by February
2021. Fiscal 2019 military construction (Navy Reserve) contract funds
in the amount of $17,281,265 are obligated on this award and will not
expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Three proposals were
received for this task order. Naval Facilities Engineering Command
Southwest, San Diego, California, is the contracting activity.

Austal USA LLC, Mobile, Alabama, is awarded a $16,322,000
cost-plus-fixed-fee order against previously awarded contract
N00024-11-C-2301 to provide engineering, management, and production
services in support of prefabrication efforts, material procurement,
and execution of work items for littoral combat ship USS Cincinnati
(LCS-20) extended industrial post-delivery availability (EIPDA). The
EIPDA is accomplished within a period of approximately 12 weeks
between the time of ship custody transfer to the Navy and the
shipbuilding and conversion, (Navy) obligation work limiting date.
Efforts will include program management, advance planning,
engineering, design, prefabrication, and material kitting. Work will
be performed in Mobile, Alabama, and is expected to be complete by
August 2019. Fiscal 2014 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funding in
the amount of $5,011,000; fiscal 2019 shipbuilding and conversion
(Navy) funding in the amount of $2,550,000; and fiscal 2018 other
procurement (Navy) funding in the amount of $600,000 will be obligated
at time of award, and funds will not expire at the end of the current
fiscal year. The Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion, and Repair
Gulf Coast, Pascagoula, Mississippi, is the contracting activity.



*Small business

2 perps may be near Casa Grande AZ

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Purse-Theft-Fatal-Shooting-Inglewood-Lourdes-Padilla-Suspects-Police-504819451.html

wanted for Xmas Day murder in Inglewood CA

Tubs Fire not caused by PG&E

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/24/us/tubbs-fire-california-cause/index.html

2017 in California - 22 died & 5,000 structures destroyed

Be cautious when donating online - general information

https://www.wtsp.com/video/news/investigations/10-investigates/be-cautious-about-online-donating-in-wake-of-sebring-bank-shooting/67-8388842

1 minute news report

Re: Washington DC has a fire

https://twitter.com/dcfireems/status/1088569338171482118

short video clip from DC FD at scene

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 5:53 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
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> https://twitter.com/PoPville/status/1088569147418648576 - 1 photo

Washington DC has a fire

https://twitter.com/PoPville/status/1088569147418648576 - 1 photo

govt shutdown vs 2019 wildfires

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/24/us/shutdown-wildfire-impacts-climate/index.html

caution - autoplay video

1. no mention of any billionaire that is donating funds to pick up the slack

2. no mention of any federal employees donating their time to pick up the slack

3. no mention of who will get more burnt up in 2019 - Republicans or Democrats

4. no mention of any small towns getting together to do huge cleanups
of brush and strengthening of homes to resist fires

5. no mention of exactly what might be done differently in 2019 that
would require more planning and training - I think that Washington
State Forestry and Cal Fire are getting more money in 2019 but I have
not heard any specifics - is anyone building 500 new brush trucks for
2019? any new aircraft? any new lookout towers? anything? anything at
all? jsut wondering - for an enemy

crazy 311 info from washington dc

https://twitter.com/OUC_DC/status/1088512092511047686

crimes that happened in the past ? 5 seconds ago ?

unoccupied vehicles - like that bus on its roof? I cant see anyone in
it - yup - must be unoccupied - of course I am 500 feet away on the
other side of the highway - but whatever

dont they have the same people answering 911 calls and 311 calls???????

Re: [sme2] Never forget - would vs wouldn't - Trump

its time to repost this again

https://youtu.be/Hf1KkFeDJyI

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

F16 incentive ride video

https://youtu.be/VseTWC_jSE0

from 2012 - 6 minutes long - video from cockpit

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

looks like he puked after he got out of the plane

pretty good view of a wild ride

Genie 30 foot boom

https://youtu.be/u02T_XAiPhg

looks like R2D2 with a snorkel growing out of his head

4 minute video from 2017

How to Reverse a B Double

https://youtu.be/udwquuBwCkk

how to back up a cargo truck with 2 trailers - 10 minute lecture from
an Australian guy

2015 video - 1M views so far

San Diego 2018 video

https://youtu.be/qn_20K2auN4

car catches on fire 20 minutes after crash

multi comments about FD not cutting battery cable and cops not using
fire extinguishers

Germany - minivan with huge hose load

https://youtu.be/PCh6fXH6zLo

how did they get all that hose in there?

Patient removal from the warm zone

https://twitter.com/FireInfo1/status/1088193851200864258

for the Boston Marathon incident - BPD basically used 1 radio channel

for the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre - PPD basically used 1 radio channel

for the Parkland High School incident - how many radio channels were used?

for the Las Vegas incident - how many radio channels were used? (we
know it was more than 1 because the 1 cop who figured out where the
perp was at had to switch to a 2nd channel to reach a dispatcher)

is this relevant?

would the death tolls have been lowered if more radio channels were used?

just wondering - for an enemy

"Pope Command" in Panama

https://twitter.com/SIMINGOB/status/1088165444425576450

comm center - for Popes visit apparently

Re: Salem NJ active shooter on rooftop

nothing going on on the scanner feed

On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 2:07 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
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> police are negotiating with shooter per news media
>
> https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/14215 - scanner feed
>
> salem nj is in salem county nj
>
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 2:05 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > https://twitter.com/res7cuefox5/status/1088149266017775616

Re: Salem NJ active shooter on rooftop

police are negotiating with shooter per news media

https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/14215 - scanner feed

salem nj is in salem county nj

On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 2:05 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
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> https://twitter.com/res7cuefox5/status/1088149266017775616

Salem NJ active shooter on rooftop

https://twitter.com/res7cuefox5/status/1088149266017775616

Queens has a 3rd alarm

https://twitter.com/WNYFireAlerts/status/1088148565875179525

Re: Huntington Beach CA 3rd alarm

sounds like it is under control - 109 pm est

On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 12:58 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
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> https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/23313/web

Huntington Beach CA 3rd alarm

https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/23313/web

2014 lawsuit in Will County IL

http://www.illinoiscourts.gov/R23_Orders/AppellateCourt/2014/3rdDistrict/3120583_R23.pdf

totally messed up EMS call during a tornado swarm

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same scenario as many before - if you arrive at a call and cant find
anything - you really need someone to speak face to face to the person
that originated the call - if the call came from an alarm company in
East Oshkosh - then I guess you need to call out SWAT and have them go
thru a window with guns blazing - which might be slightly counter
productive - if the caller was just a passerby, then have the cops
shanghai the person and bring them to the scene to point out the
problem

remember the case in Maryland where the cops drove away from a house
full of dead people? I think it was Montgomery County - or was it FD?

Baltimore MD - schools cops still cant carry their guns inside the schools

https://twitter.com/FirePix1075/status/1088055469913096193

students protested against changing policy

students "won"

school cops can carry their guns when outside the school but have to
stow them when inside the school

I assume that many of the schools have gun detectors at the entrances
- probably staffed by cops or guards or teachers or someone

Re: wichita has fire - maybe 1 trapped

seems to be under control - have not heard if they found a victim or
not - it was unknown if the party was actually in the shed or not

On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 7:39 AM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
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> https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/20581/web
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> smoke showing at 738am
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> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 7:37 AM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > https://twitter.com/Wichita_Scanner/status/1088052629492690944

Re: wichita has fire - maybe 1 trapped

https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/20581/web

smoke showing at 738am

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> https://twitter.com/Wichita_Scanner/status/1088052629492690944

wichita has fire - maybe 1 trapped

https://twitter.com/Wichita_Scanner/status/1088052629492690944

Wilmington IL FD - 12 hour shifts

http://www.wilmingtonfire.org/about-us/

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Buien WA - 2 alarm apt bld fire

https://twitter.com/alertpage/status/1087897952880943106

live scanner audio

Update on the Chico CA incident

https://www.ems1.com/overdose/articles/393267048-Calif-mass-overdose-highlights-severe-new-phase-of-opioid-epidemic/

13 ODed at party

8 minute response time for first cop

SC school bus driver saves 34 kids

https://twitter.com/fireengineering/status/1087836213573234690

all London City police patrol cars have defibs

https://twitter.com/Citycyclecop/status/1087645718859390977

Re: Mayday at Indiana fire

https://twitter.com/firenation/status/1087815013769859075

firefighter will be released from hospital today

On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 2:28 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
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> https://twitter.com/firenation/status/1087793565433020418

Mayday at Indiana fire

https://twitter.com/firenation/status/1087793565433020418

French Broad VFD scanner feed

https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/29758/web

live scanner audio - 154.815

hearing Buncombe County North Carolina fire dispatches - no followup comms heard

format is - beep - prealert (station + address + incident) - 2 tone
pager signal - 1 second plus 4 seconds - then call reannounced twice
(station + address + type incident) - then 2 cross streets - then time
out

whooper signal is used before pre alert on medical calls

dispatcher IDs as "Fire Dispatch"

misc radio traffic was - Station 5 make an investigation of live wires
on a vehicle - Station 3 / District 3 to motor vehicle crash with
unknown injuries - "Squad 3-3 on other traffic) - maybe that is a 2nd
incident for Sta 3 - Station 11 radio equipment test - Sta 4 to 'first
response' call for trouble breathing

Coulson has a 737 airtanker

https://twitter.com/NSWRFS/status/1087493911277273088

Info about medevac costs

https://twitter.com/FLTDOC1/status/1087765427588132866

Re: New Bedford MA FD lawsuit

reading further - seems they can reduce to either 1 officer and 2
privates or to 3 privates

taking 1 person off a 3 person company must be extremely rare - maybe
once a year

if $100K was spent on this legal stuff - was it worth it?

On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 11:32 AM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
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> https://twitter.com/CFD_Local30/status/1087738091706687493
>
> insane - 1 incident in 20 years
>
> it seems that regular staffing is 1 officer (captain or lieutenant)
> plus 3 firefighters (privates) - sometimes this can be reduced to 2
> privates and 1 acting officer - or maybe can be reduced sometimes to 1
> officer and 2 privates - I dont know what they are really saying there
> - the wording is "3 firefighters"

New Bedford MA FD lawsuit

https://twitter.com/CFD_Local30/status/1087738091706687493

insane - 1 incident in 20 years

it seems that regular staffing is 1 officer (captain or lieutenant)
plus 3 firefighters (privates) - sometimes this can be reduced to 2
privates and 1 acting officer - or maybe can be reduced sometimes to 1
officer and 2 privates - I dont know what they are really saying there
- the wording is "3 firefighters"

Re: Overview of USA fire departments

services provided by fire departments in USA - by percentage of calls
- totally estimated by zerg90

80% ems

5% false medical alarms (up and coming category)

1% burnt food

1% false smoke detectors

1% outside fires

1% gas leaks

1% downed power lines

1% car crashes - clean up spilled fluids

1% stuck elevators

1% building fires

1% inservice inspections - blds and hydrants

1% technical rescue - car wreck - confined space - hazmat

1% wilderness search and rescue

1% old smoke detectors beeping in the trash

Its called - leaving space for the Ladder

https://twitter.com/CMassFireWBFD31/status/1087734867998187523

picture of Gardner Mass house fire

Monday, January 21, 2019

The new cop radios are awesome

https://twitter.com/BlueIrishAngel/status/1087389864033701890

lol lol lol lol lol

A bunch of misc items

https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/29327 - new feed taunton mass

https://dod.hawaii.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Preparedness-Report-18FEB2018.pdf
- Hawaii EMA preparedness report

http://www.miami-airport.com/library/pdfdoc/Hurricane_Manual/2018_HURRICANE_MANUAL.pdf
- miami airport hurricane manual - top secret

https://www.flysanjose.com/sites/default/files/security/SJC%20AirportEvacuationPlan%202018.pdf
- san jose airport evac plan

file:///C:/Users/zerg9_000/Desktop/NY%20Suffolk%20County%20CEMP%202018.pdf
- suffolk county ny eop 2018

http://www.wichita.gov/WPD/WPDPolicyAndProcedureManual/Policy%20601%20-%20Airport%20Emergencies.pdf
- wichita ks pd airport plan

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/aero_data/ - faa stuff

file:///C:/Users/zerg9_000/Desktop/MD%20Salsbury%20Airport%20crash%20plan%20AEP-Original-scanned-with-FAA-signature-V1.pdf
- salsbury md crash plan

https://nfdc.faa.gov/webContent/nfdd/nfdd-2019-01-04-3.pdf - branson
mo airport - add fire sta - columbia mo also - beverly ma airport map
- add admin bld and 2 blds

https://www.reddit.com/r/Firefighting/comments/ag7sdw/discussion_how_many_volunteer_departments_here/
- pov to scene

https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/29344 - andover mass pd and fd

https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/5225 - webster mass area freqs

https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/712 - north worcester county
FDs includes dcr and mema

https://youtu.be/salnJfiOeWw - at 315 they switch to straight stream
and the fire goes out immediately - wow

http://www.alachuacounty.us/Depts/OMB/Budget%20Presentations/Budget%20Presentation%20June%2021%202018.pdf

Cheyenne Mountain - quite the mountain

https://youtu.be/nAHBekea2Fc - cheyenne mtn - quite the mtn - 5 minute
video 2016

Palm Beach County FD - avg response time 6.5 minutes

http://discover.pbcgov.org/pbcfr/PDF/FactSheet.pdf - palm beach county
6.5 minutes average response time

Austin TX Airport will get 2nd fire station in 2025

http://www.abiamasterplan.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Phasing-11x17.pdf
- austin tx - 2025 2nd airport fire sta

video from church fire in Mississippi

https://www.statter911.com/2019/01/20/video-mississippi-church-fire/

steeple falls in at 3:00

Scarsdale NY - $3M mansion destroyed by fire

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Fire-Rips-Through-Multi-Million-Dollar-New-York-Mansion-Scarsdale-504648361.html

1. hydrants are not supposed to freeze no matter how cold it gets

2. fire trucks are not supposed to freeze no matter how cold it gets -
especially a truck with a 400 HP motor

3. relay pumping from distant hydrants takes some skill - maybe the
radio traffic went like this - we have a dead hydrant, send another
pumper - 5 minutes later - we are out of water - retreat, retreat - 10
minutes later - this hydrant is dead also, send another pumper - 20
minutes later - we are all hooked up now - never mind

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

3 dead after "home invasion" in Houston Texas

https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-homeowner-shoots-kills-3-men-and-injures-2-during-home-invasion-officials-say

the comments are pretty bizarre - you would think that every day on
the news there are 10 storys about home invasions with 10 innocent
people killed - but I cant think of any home invasions with deaths - I
can think of some mentally ill people killing their family members -
but no home invasions by 'immigants' - are these all Russian trolls
that are posting on FOXnews.com?

San Diego had a house fire

https://youtu.be/JZoON3o44fU

video of aftermath

dry chemical extinguisher versus gasoline floating on water fire

Bar Harbor Maine has a quint

https://youtu.be/cG7V9pZYCcY

5 minute interview with the Fire/EMS Chief

they have 11 FT + 11 call - callmen meet the FT men at the scene

Re: 2 ships on fire near Crimea

https://youtu.be/xixUwPgnsVg - lookner live now

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> https://twitter.com/AgendaFreeTV/status/1087433250010734593
>
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 12:50 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1087401388966064128
> >
> > 1 is a gas tanker

Re: Pointing and shouting in Japan

https://youtu.be/xpkrIu2p_iM

last call is

"make train go now"

On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 3:31 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
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> https://twitter.com/TerryFairbanks/status/1087149697809240064
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> safety procedure

Pointing and shouting in Japan

https://twitter.com/TerryFairbanks/status/1087149697809240064

safety procedure

Panama Command Center - photos

https://twitter.com/JC_Varela/status/1087434714296791049

Red Cross installed smoke detectors this weekend

https://twitter.com/RedCross/status/1087438269338603522

video of police shooting - 2018

https://youtu.be/6kIcRsh138Q

Bradford County Pennsylvania

one handed shooting by cops

mentally ill man had AR-15

Re: 2 ships on fire near Crimea

https://twitter.com/AgendaFreeTV/status/1087433250010734593

On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 12:50 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
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> https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1087401388966064128
>
> 1 is a gas tanker

Soto Cano Air Base FD - in Honduras

https://twitter.com/Southcom/status/1087433370315960322

USAF - 2 photos - tanker and pumper

2 ships on fire near Crimea

https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1087401388966064128

1 is a gas tanker

20 undisclosed missile sites in North Korea

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1087399501873188865

10% of TSA called in sick

https://twitter.com/gabegutierrez/status/1087377756739043328

3X higher than last year

33,000 murdered in Mexico in 2018

https://twitter.com/DetroitScanner/status/1087396525305749510

FDNY EMS merger is a failure

https://twitter.com/NYCEMSwatch/status/1086481375816019969

I wonder what Tokyo FD thinks of this bulldust

Brazil is arming up

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1087393674592468992

everybody and their mother is buying guns apparently

My Obamaphone is soooo weird

1. forward videos from cellphone - after phone sends video, it returns
back to original - except when it decides not to

2. call my gphone number - takes message except when it decides not too

3. dial hospital phone number - no answer - phone down hall starts
ringing - at exact same time that my call is ringing - apartment down
hall is "unoccupied" - I saw a cardboard big box in the apt - approx
the size of a small refrigerator - how big is a stingray?

Time for me to step up my game - big time

26 uber rich have as much $$$ as the world's 3.8 billion poorest

https://twitter.com/AtomicAnalyst/status/1087378931051827201

there are 7.7 billion people in the world today per
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population

Niagara County NY - Barker Library burnt to ground

https://youtu.be/0Wu27nVbKfQ

looks like 1 story bld - firescene video

was the wind chill minus 40? sure looks like it

Pueblo Colorado had a fire last night

https://youtu.be/5SNMm1Rmi1w

news report

while you slept!

access problems - multiple levels in building

740 am - Bronx had 3 alarm fire

https://youtu.be/H0W6FfZk9IU

maybe heating system problem in basement caused explosions at medical
supply company

news report

1 person critically hurt

Santa Cruz CA had a house fire

https://youtu.be/u5s2BQ7mCcE

8 minute video

first minute is pumper and tiller ladder and chief responding thru intersection

remainder of video is fire aftermath

at night

West Conshocken PA - FD wants more money

https://youtu.be/OU5GQtZHivc

5 minute video - public meeting supporting the FD

Paradigm Challenge - home fire safety

https://youtu.be/W9BdV0O4R4o

3 minute video - seems to be aimed at USA teens

Springfield Mass had a house fire

https://youtu.be/0u7vB6RNKEo

1.5 minute video - aerial tower put to good use

front of house is all black - ???? - must have been a 3rd floor fire
in a 2.5 wood frame

Jumpers at China highrise fire

caution - maybe graphic - https://youtu.be/OBbLC5brqNA

Venezuela - mutiny suppressed

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1087359846511464448

Baltimore MD 2nd alarm

https://twitter.com/alertpage/status/1087360412654452736

South Africa fire - video clip

https://youtu.be/ozDxn0eYry4

20 second video clip - huey with bambi drops on fire in residential area

at end - woman collapses to ground - she is breathing hard - not
really sure what is wrong with her - maybe smoke inhalation - maybe
emotional distress

today

FEMA Daily Ops Briefing - no red flags today - but close

Daily Operations Brief for Monday, January 21, 2019 (Attached)



Significant Events: Winter Storms



Significant Weather:

Much below normal temperatures and wind chill warnings/advisories–
Great Lakes into Northeast and Mid-Atlantic
Heavy snow possible – Central Great Basin to Central Rockies and
Northern/Central Plains
Freezing rain possible – Central Plains
Critical and elevated fire weather – Southwest to Southern Plains

Tropical Activity: Western Pacific – No activity affecting U.S. interests

Sunday, January 20, 2019

Georgia man wanted to attack White House with antitank rocket

https://www.abc4.com/news/fbi-man-wanted-to-attack-white-house-with-antitank-rocket/1706833066

self radicalized - male 21 - captured by FBI sting

4 people murdered in Oregon home

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/four-people-murdered-oregon-home-suspect-killed-police-n960781

I think I read somewhere that the guy was on drugs and used a hatchet
to kill the people - who were possibly all family members

CA 12 miles NE of Stockton

https://twitter.com/tuolumnecofire/status/1087116238008930304

tornado warning

kinda hard to believe

Kim Kadashian's Private Firefighters

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/11/kim-kardashian-kanye-west-history-private-firefighting/575887/

an overview of the public nature of firefighting in the USA

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none of us wants to pay taxes - none of us want to die in a fire - the
best system lies somewhere between those 2 extremes I suppose

Hydrogen cells may power drones in the future

https://twitter.com/TommyDrone/status/1086710951091621889

Abington MA FD asking people to stay home

https://twitter.com/mikesacconetv/status/1087092998125600770

icy roads and trees

Cecil County MD - major crash on I95

https://twitter.com/BaltMetroNews/status/1087087094844088320

conflagration in Berlin Germany

https://twitter.com/Berliner_Fw/status/1087080769313521666

35 units working a 30 square meter fire

5 meter by 5 meters ? - 15 feet by 15 feet? - 35 units? - 35 people? -
in Berlin - in the winter?

dirty joke - a white 737 fell in the mud

https://twitter.com/ORDInsider/status/1087036779973226497

3 photos - two huge wreckers haul the 737 out of the grass at O'Hare in Chicago

Panama had a brush fire in the city

https://twitter.com/UnidasPanama/status/1086989318344925184

nice drone video clip - at night - FD at scene

Ueda City Japan - 3 photos

https://twitter.com/TV1sambarSTi/status/1087004588199182336

FD mobile command post

mid size

$500K in donations for daughter of Worcester LODD

https://twitter.com/WorcesterFD1009/status/1086995621301678080

also $400K federal LODD payment plus maybe life insurance plus ?

that should secure her financial future and get her into a good college

fire at TV studios in Washington DC

https://twitter.com/NancyChenNews/status/1086998770896850946

so it begins

Connecticut getting an ice storm

https://twitter.com/MattNBCBoston/status/1086993922289795073

power will be down for a while

re video from Mexico

heads up - the video from Mexico is pretty bad - multi people in
flames running away from explosion - some tackled close up and thrown
to ground - I stopped watching

I cant imagine how the local police and fire would let that continue
for hours - ???

arrest made in death of 11 year old Haverhill Mass girl

https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/01/19/arrest-made-in-death-of-11-year-old-haverhill-girl/

girl went to visit uncle - ate some candy - started to bleed from
mouth - died in hospital

it is suspected that the girl ODed on fentanyl - uncle has been
arrested - he is a 57 year old male

opioids - keyword

Saturday, January 19, 2019

Fire near Kyoto Japan

https://twitter.com/inazawa_cha/status/1086636243218124800

video clip - something fully involved

pretty sure it is Kyoto Japan

Encryption is a tool of the devil

https://web.archive.org/web/20190119235415/https:/twitter.com/ai6yrham/status/1086619633224830981

openness is a tool of the bless-ed

Re: Wetumpka AL hit by tornado

https://twitter.com/WSFA_Amanda/status/1086731059100872704 - tower cam
saw the tornado

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> https://twitter.com/JoshWeather/status/1086741827426889728 - live news video
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> On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 4:47 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > https://twitter.com/lhilyer_lance/status/1086732090232786944 - video
> > clip of some damage
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 4:46 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > https://twitter.com/NewsBreaking/status/1086738299832520704

Re: Wetumpka AL hit by tornado

https://twitter.com/JoshWeather/status/1086741827426889728 - live news video

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> https://twitter.com/lhilyer_lance/status/1086732090232786944 - video
> clip of some damage
>
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 4:46 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > https://twitter.com/NewsBreaking/status/1086738299832520704

Re: Wetumpka AL hit by tornado

https://twitter.com/lhilyer_lance/status/1086732090232786944 - video
clip of some damage

On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 4:46 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
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> https://twitter.com/NewsBreaking/status/1086738299832520704

Wetumpka AL hit by tornado

https://twitter.com/NewsBreaking/status/1086738299832520704

Montclair NJ 2nd alarm today - 6 minute video

https://youtu.be/3GG1lF04Xrs

video from scene (smoke showing) plus radio traffic

several doubles - for example - 'charge line' got walked on - probably
radio tape was heavily edited

3 story apt bld

mutual aid channel has paging tones - "Essex County Fire Mutual Aid to
all surrounding towns attention Clifton Engine, West Orange Engine,
East Orange Truck 2 ...." - she sounded very tentative - first alert
was just for 1 mutual aid unit then 3 mutual aid units

address given like 5 times - then - what was the address? - lol

bottom line - they probably saved the building - probably no
sprinklers in there - fire could have easily taken down the whole
building

Tokyo FD - mobile command post responding

https://youtu.be/g1GEYhpU1F8

30 second video

another french video - subway station evacuation

https://youtu.be/fgsyJV51vMA

people fleeing a subway station with moderate smoke or fumes

France video - yellow vests vs police

https://youtu.be/YQcdzCEZA6s

fire starts in street - police open fire with something

Mexico - 66 dead - gasoline pipeline incident

https://youtu.be/nstlIRrenZ0

Heads Up GPS display for dashboard

http://prime8.com/vizr/?s1=p8fndsr

no idea if this is any good or not

being offered with other multi level marketing type items

BaoFeng type accepted

https://forums.radioreference.com/threads/baofeng-uv5-r-type-accepted.382263/

maybe there have been recent changes to make the $30 Chinese radios
"legal" in the FCC's eyes?

seems reasonable if the option to program police and fire freqs via
the keyboard has been removed

Greenfield MA getting $11M in free money

https://www.recorder.com/New-rough-numbers-from-mayor-set-the-agenda-for-a-fire-station-in-Greenfield-22802870

for fire HQ and library

state grants for $2M + $9M

Greenfield Mass has 2 killer drones

https://www.recorder.com/Greenfield-emergency-services-drone-program-to-launch-this-week-20486020

did I say killer drones? I meant 'non killer drones' - lol

shared by police and fire

wont be used for surveillance except in bikini weather - did I say
'bikini weather'? - sorry

Its a house - its a plane - its a fire station!

http://www.northwestgeorgianews.com/catoosa_walker_news/catoosa-county-to-purchase-large-home-as-new-fire-station/article_fecf2654-1a89-11e9-8ecc-df27f8372762.html

Catoosa County Georgia will buy a house to be used as a fire station

Jacuzzi equipped?

Info about Lakewood Fire Tower in NJ

Lakewood Station
US 555, New Jersey 14
Lakewood, New Jersey
Elevation: 136 feet
Five employees of Jersey Central Power and Light Company built the
Lakewood Station fire tower in 1944 for $360! The construction of the
80' Aermotor tower with 7'x7' metal cab was to be done "after normal
working hours" in two weeks. In 1974 this NJFFS tower was moved 300'
because of a property dispute and remains active. During World War II
the tower was used to listen to German U-boat communications in the
Atlantic Ocean 12 miles to the east.

per https://www.nj.gov/dep/parksandforests/fire/ws_firetowers_div_b.htm

Sterling NY - last forest fire tower in NY

https://www.nj.gov/dep/parksandforests/fire/ws_firetowers_div_a.htm

per info here at Milton Station listing

2017 video - Kettering OH cop kills guy

https://youtu.be/4v8Vw3yEBz4

all the comments support the cop

white cop vs white methhead with a gun - apparently

NYPD 24/7 - documentary from 2002

https://youtu.be/LgT6PJxS_rw

ride alongs by ABC News

$100 automatic hand held voice translator

https://www.inspireuplift.com/collections/new-arrivals/products/multi-language-portable-smart-voice-translator

multi language portable smart voice translator

worlds cutest dog dies of broken heart

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/19/americas/boo-cutest-dog-dies-scli-intl/index.html

wah wah wah wah wah wah sniffle sniffle sniffle

only had 16 MILLION followers at Facebook

FEMA Daily Ops Brieifing - no red flags today

EMA Daily Operations Briefing

Significant Events: Winter Storms

Significant Weather:

Major winter storm expected to move rapidly across the Midwest into
the Northeast
Severe weather and flash flooding possible in Southeast
Heavy rain for Pacific Northwest into CA this weekend; heavy snow in
higher elevations

Tropical Activity: Western Pacific – No activity affecting U.S. interests

NJ bought fire truck via Galveston TX

http://www.tomsriverfiredistrict2.com/notices/

see award at bottom

dont ask me who District 2 is - Toms River Twp has 6 VFC with 9 fire
stations staffed by 350 volunteers - protecting 100,000 people (200K
in summer) - ems is separate - possibly there are 2 "fire districts"
who are 'fire politicians' who oversee the 9 stations in some sort of
split

NJ DOT has a statewide EAS TG

https://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?sid=7021

statewide 700T

TG 3613 e1d D EAS #2 Emergency Alert System Emergency Ops

interesting

I wonder if that is connected to the FCC EAS - with national alerts
from the White House and such - would make sense - but they might be
the only agency in the USA to have this

Shenzhen China will have 2nd tallest bld in the world

https://www.bdcnetwork.com/asgg-designed-tower-will-be-tallest-china

scroll down at the article for multiple other recent stories about highrises

such as

18 supertall skyscrapers completed in 2018 -
https://www.bdcnetwork.com/record-number-supertall-towers-were-completed-2018

New 45 minute fire glass is spectacular

https://www.bdcnetwork.com/blog/new-year-new-fire-rated-glass-game-changer-introducing-superclear-45-hs-li

sure sounds like a winner

but is it?

Plenty of Dead Fish - Bend Oregon

https://nbc16.com/news/local/woman-killed-in-bend-was-on-date-with-man-suspected-of-manslaughter

woman killed by man on first date - they had hooked up via the Plenty
of Fish app

Fire Season vs federal government shutdown

https://nbc16.com/news/local/how-fire-season-could-be-affected-by-the-government-shutdown

news article from Lane County Oregon

not too much effect so far

If I had to guess, I would guess that the federal wildfire agencies
spend most of January, February, March, and April working with
skeleton crews of administrators who hire new staff, review plans,
restock equipment, etc for the upcoming wildfire season

Friday, January 18, 2019

video of remote control fire trucks

https://youtu.be/5m88MmOCRb8

posted yesterday - 10 minute video - Part 4

wow

Hales Corner WI - FD staffing problems

https://youtu.be/j6QlH99k9_k

3 FF on duty but no one can drive the fire truck

fire burns 53 homes in South Africa

https://youtu.be/hEmyhf2JnUc - video shows aftermath - partially in English

maybe a town with no fire department

Kaboomy kablammy in Florida

https://youtu.be/LDPDXn_-L6Q

20 seconds of helicopter video

something blowing up good at an industrial fire

Westfield Mass get new interim fire chief

https://youtu.be/hx64PBwv0ig

something going on ?

fire commissioner also resigned

Re: amazing video - TX trooper shot

the old guy was apparently upset over taxes and a speeding ticket - so
it was all an ambush - happened in 2000

https://youtu.be/hY5N0PdHTyI - the cop's son graduated from high
school in 2018 with PD support

amazing video - TX trooper shot

https://youtu.be/SHOChJeL5-k

murder of Trooper Randall Vetter

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I had seen 10 seconds of this before and always wondered what had happened

this 8 minute dashcam video shows how insane the whole situation was

perp shoots cop - calls on radio for help - cops and ems pull up - and
then realize that the rp (old white guy) is the shooter

radio traffic is heard - both ems and police

this might be 10 or 15 years old

video - shooting bullets into cinder blocks

https://youtu.be/qFwntHIWjaw

lots of comments about grains and foot pounds and such

7 minute video - well done - multi camera angles

sweet and simple - 2018

Rockland Maine post office is the gateway to hell

https://www.statter911.com/2019/01/16/maine-fire-chief-battles-with-postmaster-over-evacuation-code-enforcement/

gateway to hell - or something like that

local authorities cannot enforce local fire regulations in federal
buildings in the USA - but the local authorities are responsible for
providing fire protection to the buildings

seems like a intergovernmental catch 22

Statter says - go to media or Congress Critters

nyc fbi field office guiliani

https://web.archive.org/web/20190118193358/https:/twitter.com/DirkSchwenk/status/1086342836587560962

versus comey

storm emergency info - Arlington Mass

https://twitter.com/ArlingtonMAPD/status/1086299219684671488

getting prepared for the big blow

some background info

1. usually - if you dial 911 or 643-1212 - you get the same people -
its the 2 or 3 dispatchers on duty at the Arlington Police Station -
sometimes if you dial 911 from a cellphone you might get the Middleton
regional answering center - and they will connect you back to the
Arlington dispatchers - sometimes if you dial 911 and all of the
Arlington dispatchers are busy, you might get rolled over to a
dispatcher in Lexington (not positive about that - but I think they
have an automatic mechanism for when 20 people try to call Arlington
911 all at once)

2. I suppose there is a chance you might get a busy signal if you call
643-1212 at the same time that 5 other people all that number - also -
if you call 643-1212, your telo number and address might not show up
automatically on the dispatchers console - they might be able to do a
star 69 on you (if that service is still available)

3. most calls are for wires down - and wires often go down because
branches go down - so the typical response is 1 fire truck - if it is
a communications wire (telephone or cable or fiber optic or internet
or whatever), they will probably cut the wire and move the branches
out of the road or driveway - if its a power line, they have to call
the Edison (power company) and wait for someone to come and kill the
power - this can take 1 to 3 hours - sometimes for big branches, they
have to send a DPW tree crew (if it is a town tree that is involved) -
but DPW cant do anything till the power is killed

this is pretty much the typical scenario for the USA - any call to 911
for wires down gets a response from a fire department first - except
that not all jurisdictions want people to call 911 for wires that are
down - sometimes they give a 10 digit telephone number or 311 or maybe
? 511 - maybe in some communities the public is told to call the power
company direct for any wires down - maybe some police departments also
respond to wire down calls - especially if a major roadway is involved
and traffic has to be rerouted

I am pretty sure that in NYC you are supposed to call the gas company
for any gas leaks - but most cities want people to call 911 for any
gas leaks - in any case, 911 and utility companys always pass calls
back and forth to each other - they know that the public does not
always report an emergency to exactly the right telephone number - its
no big deal on their end - both agencies usually end up responding to
the scene anyhow

to recap

RULE NUMBER 1 - stay away from downed wires - far away - electricity
can travel thru fences and guardrails and puddles etc

PPV vs manual ventilation

https://twitter.com/FFBehavior/status/1086248654439100416

some comments

IDL Review 2017 - 200 pages

https://web.archive.org/web/20190118124242/https://www.idl.idaho.gov/fire/2017-fire-program-review.pdf

idaho state forest fire service

program review

they run 65 engines iirc - in the summer

Thursday, January 17, 2019

Re: "Ambulance Diversion" is a big problem in the USA

January 2009 - Massachusetts banned diversion - seems to have worked
OK - everything seems to be OK at local ERs nowdays and ambulances are
not being diverted afaik -
https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/ending-ambulance-diversion-massachusetts/2010-06

"Ambulance Diversion" is a big problem in the USA

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/01/17/ambulance-diversion-deadly-consequences/2601373002/

iirc Massachusetts did a study on this 10 or 15 years ago and fixed
the problem - nurses were given more authority to ship patients from
the ER to the hospital beds iirc - and the problem was fixed

Fall River Mass FD having problems

https://news.google.com/search?q=fall%20river%20fire&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen

firefighter made 16 false calls in 2018

drunk chief ran over foot of state trooper

2 women died when car hit building - perfect storm of firefighting problems

Info about 1996 murder in Boston

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/7x5pkj/karina_holmer_was_swedish_au_pair_who_disappeared/

swedish au pair - murdered and sawed in half - in Boston

San Diego FD - FY2019 budget

https://www.sandiego.gov/sites/default/files/fy19ab_v2firerescue.pdf

approx 15 pages

87% approx of budget is for personnel costs

I dont see EMTs or Medics listed as employees - maybe they are all
Rural Metro or AMR - I know they have some sort of city / private
agreement

they are not meeting response time nor dispatch time goals

USCG Air Station is moving from LAX to Point Mugu NAS

https://www.cnic.navy.mil/content/dam/cnic/cnrsw/Environmental_Projects/NEPA_Projects/NBVC/USCG%20Air%20Station%20Pt%20Mugu%20Draft_EA.pdf

environmental impact statement 2018 ish approx 200 pages ish

San Clemente Island sparrow nests are very important

https://www.cnic.navy.mil/content/dam/cnic/cnrsw/Environmental_Projects/NEPA_Projects/NBC/Relocation%20of%20Aerial%20Target%20Site_Final%20EA%20and%20FONSI.pdf

this military launches test missiles from San Clemente Islands - they
do tons of planning to insure that no sparrow nests are destroyed by
rocket luanches nor fire fighting - ish

this is a 200 page 2018 environmental report

no kites pemitted within 5 miles of any airport

http://www.scisland.org/

no kites - none!

Federal FD in San Diego has at least 1 quint

http://localf33.com/index.cfm?zone=/unionactive/view_pics.cfm&galleryID=1&gallery=Main&showarchive=101

photo

USA - drowsy driving might cause 6,000 deaths per year

https://www.cdc.gov/features/dsdrowsydriving/index.html

San Diego getting new fire station

https://fox5sandiego.com/2019/01/08/city-council-votes-to-build-new-fire-station-on-ucsd-campus/

ucsd now has 36,000 students living on campus - will add 20,000 beds by 2022

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nobody wants to go to college in the blizzard belt anymore?

Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Re: 2018 brush fire in Netherlands maybe

https://youtu.be/dJmKvZk3IhY

another huge slipon unit

2018 brush fire in Netherlands maybe

https://youtu.be/_XqOrl1bNyA

most of them are huge slipon units on cargo haulers - note the big
"dumpsters" with hose connections

8 minute video

Saparro Japan fire video

https://youtu.be/fVwH3TRel74

2018 minor fire downtown

2 helos + 2 ladder buckets + 1 snorkel + 1 rescue + bunch of pumpers

metallic coats - aluminized coats - shiny coats - heat reflecting coats - maybe

Comments in the Bosto Herald

https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/01/16/massachusetts-state-worker-buyouts-gargantuan-goodbye-kisses/

in the comments we find this -

ThinkingRealist Jon Carry • 8 hours ago

The quality of police and firefighters went down when they reduced the
physical requirements and dumbed down the exam so people who would not
normally qualify could get the jobs. The liberals who wanted this are
now the first to cry when one of the affirmative action hires screws
up and gets into a jam. The lowering of standards brings down the
whole organization. You didn't see these problems 30 or 40 years ago
when only the very best and brightest got the jobs..

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lets see what was happening 30 and 40 years ago

violent crime peaked in 1991 per
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States#Crime_over_time
- 1991 was 30 years ago approx

7700 died in fires in 1978 - 3300 died in 2016 - per
https://www.statista.com/statistics/376703/us-civilian-fire-deaths/ -
1978 was 40 years ago approx

seems that getting rid of the "best and brightest" was a brilliant choice

Text to 911 now works in Massachusetts

https://twitter.com/COL1853/status/1085606498124918784

put "911" in TO field - type a short text with your location and
problem - send message - or something along those lines - pretty
simple

Ukraine fire was NOT religious based arson

https://www.polygraph.info/a/rt-misleads-about-church-fire-in-kyiv-fact-check/29711855.html

Hurricane Michael got supercharged

https://whdh.com/news/turbocharged-how-michael-got-55-percent-stronger-in-1-day/

Hurricane Michael got supercharged and it smashed Bay County Florida
because the coastal waters were much warmer than usual - and this
projected to happen much more in the future because of global warming

2010 video from NYT - Afghanistan War

https://youtu.be/frTNEoCHreE - The Inches That Matter

just watch the video - completely - its 5 minutes long

my comments are below - you should read them after watching the video
- if you read them at all



























only 477K views since 2010

US Marines

crazy crazy crazy

someone gave the wrong lats longs apparently

seems to me that the Marines should have laid down right next to the
wall at the openings - they could have fired from there and been very
hard to hit - of course they were in front of the wall also - and they
didn't lay down cover fire when they retreated - and air cover took
forever to arrive - but we don't see that

read the comments - 1 guy with a rifle from 1942 pins down 2 platoons of Marines

San Francisco had a house fire at midnight

https://youtu.be/Ray1-t_q8m8

2 critically hurt - 3 seriously hurt

hoarder - collyers mansion X 2

first public comment is - F@cking hoarder!

outer mission neighborhood

doing overhaul - drag out contents - per reporter

10 people in first house - 11 people in second home - due to sky high rent

Northbrook IL had a fire this morning - the new news

https://youtu.be/1iV3BBUWX_4

this seems to be a computer driven voice reading / voicing some
information about the fire - and accompanied by several photos

this is a 3 minute video that was possibly produced by 1 person using
a smartphone

the new news business

openness - live scanner audio

if they added some radio traffic from Broadcastify it would be complete

in fact - sooner or later - people will be streaming videos from fires
- and the video will be merged with live radio traffic - (just a hunch
- sometimes now happens in an adhoc way)

London UK today - 1 pump fire

4 minute video - https://youtu.be/i4K5jj6gawY

starts with not 1 but 3 cop cars blocking the street

video magically stops as FD arrives - and yells at cops no doubt

https://youtu.be/i4K5jj6gawY?t=132 - right here - flames above the
roof - as first booster line run

no scba on firefighters

apparently there was no extension to the building

low level fighter flybys - 2018 video - 7 minutes

https://youtu.be/INcWJYFvSkQ

some radio comms heard

openness

Liberty County GA FD info

https://www.libertycountyga.com/department/index.php?structureid=18

map at left shows the sub stations

this appears to be a mixture of local, county, and non profit fire stations

Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Govt shutdown could affect fire season

https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1084224001096978433

Bezos / Zuckerburg / Trump / Gates etc could fund 10,000 burn crews this winter

have not heard about that happening yet - not holding my breath

Daytona Beach FL - 2018 fire - 1.5 hour video

https://youtu.be/31De3zIpa5c

5 story hotel

good look at aerial tower operations

14:00 - smoke turns from brown to black

25:00 - heavy fire in rear - no FD there at all

1 occupant said everyone got out OK - possibly fire started in boiler
on first floor and went up thru walls

Antarctica FD videos

https://youtu.be/IW8KPjt-8ro - 2018 - 8 minutes - tour of fire station
- dispatch console seen at end

https://youtu.be/GmnZv3hwdK0 - 2009 - 5 minute video

15 minute video - riding in a Huey

https://youtu.be/4n9NyTmNz2o

Japan or Korea - 2013

8 minute fire truck parade Fukuyama Japan

https://youtu.be/8ux8-9rRPtQ

that where they had the big quake

nothing too exciting - bunch of small pumpers - 1 snorkel - 1 aerial -
couple of rescues

between the hand wavers and the band - all I could think of was McHales Navy

Springdale Arkansas getting 3 new stations

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1eugYBt_Ap4EE481MleEwYwp1ee8&usp=sharing

3 new new stations - not 3 replacement stations

in Washington County

Mobile AL - FD cutting coverage area

https://mynbc15.com/news/local/fire-district-change-to-leave-a-black-hole-in-west-mobile

area North of Seven Hills Fire District might lose coverage if Mobile
FD pulls out - leaving 9,000 people without FD coverage

I am not sure why Mobile FD is covering unincoporated land in the first place

NORAD tweets about communications

https://twitter.com/Norad_Northcom/status/1085301957848375303

2009 article from NYT

garland texas near fort worth

chase

Fall River MA - District Fire Chief arrested after wild chase

https://twitter.com/scooperon7/status/1085270047600398338

Virgin Islands - no more adhoc armed police responses

http://bvinews.com/new/steer-clear-of-live-firearm-incidents-unarmed-cops-told/

only the gun squads can respond with guns now

1999 ish study of response times

https://www.annemergmed.com/article/S0196-0644(99)80141-3/fulltext

study in Syracuse NY by Rural Metro Ambulance

lights and sirens saved an average of 2 minutes on response times

unknown what the average response time was - maybe it was 8 to 10 minutes

simple study - do a ridealong on ambulance - measure times with a stop
watch - then go back and retrace the runs a few weeks later without
lights and sirens

I bet this had a lot to do with traffic lights - the odds are 50/50
that a light will be green or red - there are no other options (except
for that weak kneeded yellow crap)

Lights and sirens vs ambulance crashes

https://twitter.com/AnnalsofEM/status/1085224512185081861

1 tiny number vs a 2nd tiny number

5 crashes per 100,000 runs vs 17 crashes per 100,000 runs

just a 1 page article here - but I just summed it up for you in 2 sentences

9/11 Litigation Documents

https://twitter.com/_cryptome_/status/1085223143051067393

world trade center - September 11 2001 - fdny - wtc - al queda

these might be leaked documents - I have not clicked on the link yet

Berlin Germany - fire in shoe store in subway station

https://twitter.com/Berliner_Fw/status/1085204682019164160

several aftermath photos here

Chicago politician likes lights and sirens

https://twitter.com/CWBChicago/status/1085214182537117696

iron soldier story is ? bogus ?

https://twitter.com/MedicTrommasher/status/1085205005425131521

$$$ raised for Wellfleet MA fire victims

https://www.capecodtimes.com/news/20190113/fundraising-effort-launched-for-wellfleet-fire-victims

interesting story

don't want to be unpc - must keep mouth . closed …...

fire prevention - Japan style

https://twitter.com/tiktok_japan/status/1085033538699747328

video clip

little kids probably love this - maybe adults too

Killeen Airport TX - master plan documents

http://killeenfthood.airportstudy.com/master-plan-documents/

"Inventory" has lots of good info about airport ops in general and FAA
ATC - has some radio freqs also

Killeen Airport is protected by US Army crash crews

keywords - official government document with radio frequencies -
public official document - official government document publicly
available - etc - openness

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Bangor Maine and Portsmouth NH and Burlington VT and Barnes MA have
military FDs at the shared civilian / military airports also - maybe
Albuquerque also - maybe Portland OR also - maybe El Paso TX? -
Schenectady NY also - maybe Albany NY also - maybe mostly in cases
where civilian terminals have been added to military air bases in the
last 30 or 40 years

Fort Hood Airport - Killeen TX

https://www.airnav.com/airport/KGRK

bunch of military freqs listed here

index E arff - maybe military - maybe airport authority

241.00 FREQ UNMTO - un monitored?

Re: 3 Children Die in Herkimer NY Fire

https://www.syracuse.com/crime/2019/01/cause-of-herkimer-fire-that-killed-3-brothers-identified.html

electrical fire started in basement

Monday, January 14, 2019