Thursday, October 31, 2019

Washington - 2019 - 2 FDs will change

Fire and EMS

Voters in Medical Lake approved a proposal to annex into Spokane
County Fire District No. 3. Medical Lake has relied on its
all-volunteer fire department since 1904, but the department has
struggled with dwindling volunteerism and missed calls.

Voters in Lake Stevens approved the merger of Lake Stevens Fire into
Snohomish County Fire District No. 7 near Monroe. The merger will
create a large district with about 162,000 residents. The two merging
districts are located about 15 minutes apart from each other, with
another fire protection district in between. However, the merger is
permitted under recent legislation that took effect in 2017-2018.
Previously, fire district mergers and annexations, as well as the
formation of a regional fire authority, were only authorized for
"adjacent" fire protection jurisdictions, but now such actions are
allowed as long as the jurisdictions are within "reasonable
proximity."

And voters in East Jefferson Fire Rescue and Snohomish County Fire
District No. 17 approved proposals to increase the number of fire
commissioners from three to five.

Just thinking outloud about Boston Transit

How about if we merge Uber + Lyft + MBTA + taxis + all the private buses run by hospitals and businesses - all riders use apps - you either select 'door to door' service or 'bus stop to bus stop' service or 'door to bus stop' service or 'bus stop to door' service - then the computer system matches the rider with the best available options - I could see minivans running up and down Comm Ave at 3 AM every 5 minutes - usually staying right on Comm Ave - sometimes getting off onto a side street to make pickups or dropoffs at a residence - throughput would be sky high

Free standing ERs are messed up

from twitter

ER Doc to patient at free standing ER who is having a STEMI. Dr: Sir
we are having the ambulance crew transport u lights and sirens because
time is heart muscle in ur condition. Me: So we are transporting 16.8
miles away to the parent hospital instead of a mile away to another
hospital

2nd tweeter asks - Cath Lab?

Yup but a comparable one less than a mile but not in same hospital
system. Have seen this free standing ER make people sign out AMA if
they want to go to another hospital besides there's.

Info about Boston area transit improvements

from reddit/boston

Expanding existing T lines is incredibly expensive. It requires more
rolling stock, more switch points, more staff, more infrastructure,
etc. Its much more than just digging a new tunnel or laying new rail.
Those expansions might be very helpful, but there are many more cost
effective things that can be done to improve transit. Chief among them
would be greatly expanding the number and length of bus lanes into and
within the city. This is what they do in Zurich and it works
wonderfully. Yeah, car traffic will get worse, but overall throughput
greatly improves.

Nancy Pelosi net worth

https://www.gobankingrates.com/net-worth/politicians/nancy-pelosi-net-worth/

she and her husband are worth somewhere between minus $42 million and
positive $236 million

lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

PA - false rape report by wife of cop

https://www.delcotimes.com/news/ex-cop-s-bored-wife-admits-false-sex-assault-report/article_7437f25e-f509-11e9-ad85-c3ed5d6fd963.html

https://www.delcotimes.com/news/ex-cop-s-bored-wife-admits-false-sex-assault-report

she was 18 - bored - no local friends - had consensual sex with another woman

York County VA gets new Sta 1 / HQ

https://www.dailypress.com/government/local/dp-nw-york-county-fire-station-20191030-ldhz7xel4fgc3adgelu353zedy-story.html

FD has average 5 minute response time

Re: what the law says - threats of terror

keywords - terroristic threat - threatening terrorism - terroristic threats

On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 8:59 AM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threatening_terrorism_against_the_United_States
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terroristic_threat

berlin fire engine responds to a call - video

https://youtu.be/ZLiD9W3o0VQ

berlin fire engine responds to a call

lots of riding on wrong side of road

10 minute video - they never arrive at scene

Nassau County NY - comms changes

https://forums.radioreference.com/threads/ncfd.395475/#post-3197400

FD changes

Getty Fire - fire wx still critical today

per twitter

Rich Thompson
@RichIMET
·3m
Day 4 of
@NWS_IMET_OPS
IMET dispatch on #GettyFire.

Weakening N-NE winds expected today with even a shift to southerly at
lower elevations this afternoon. However still single digit RH, so
#FireWx conditions will remain critical.

FEMA Daily Ops Brief - red flags in CA

per weather.gov

Halloween: Extremely Critical Fire Weather In Southern California;
Severe Weather And Heavy Rain In The East

Critical and extremely critical fire weather threats continue across
southern California. The main drivers continue to be strong offshore
Santa Ana winds combined with very low relative humidity levels and
very dry fuels. Meanwhile, a large storm system with a powerful cold
front will impact much of the Eastern U.S. with severe thunderstorms
(damaging winds), heavy rain and possible flooding.

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

https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&wwa=Red%20Flag%20Warning
- Calif red flags from San Diego NWS and Los Angeles NWS

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Significant Incidents or Threats:
• CA Wildfires - Kincade, Getty, Easy and Hill Fires
• Heavy rain/flashing flooding - Southeast to the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast
• Extreme fire weather – CA

Tropical Activity:
• Atlantic: Subtropical Storm Rebekah
• Eastern Pacific: No tropical cyclones are expected through the next 5 days
• Central Pacific: No tropical cyclones are expected through the next 5 days
• Western Pacific: No activity affecting U.S. interests

Declaration Activity: None

MSP using facial recognition vs protesters

https://twitter.com/FiveFreedoms/status/1189893641252278272

Sleepy Hollow NY Tower Ladder

https://www.e-one.com/truck_calendar/2019/?month=10

booooo!

logo of headless person on rig

https://twitter.com/EONE_FireTrucks/status/1189886389824954369

Goats saved Reagan Library

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1189879719329705984

cnn story

Re: San Bernardino has a fire

https://twitter.com/564FIREPhoto/status/1189869669043318784

at least 1 home destroyed - live video - its on Periscope also

San Bernardino has a fire

? multi homes burning ?

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from twitter

SB County Fire
@SBCOUNTYFIRE

#HillsideFire (Update): Mandatory Evacuations have been declared all
homes North of 50th, West of Hwy18, & East of Mayfield. Multiple homes
involved w/ fire, Structure Defense resources in place. Additional FFs
enroute. Evacuation Center: 1020 Pacific St San Bernardino 92404 Krn

autoland button for small planes

Aviation Week
@AviationWeek
·
A guarded red button has been added to the flight deck layout. Read
BCA's exclusive on flying Garmin's new G3000 NX avionics package which
includes an emergency autoland function that can take control of the
aircraft and land it safely. https://qoo.ly/zzi6yb

this looks worse than it was - reagan library

https://twitter.com/WorkingFire911/status/1189590120468381696

someone must have caught the real action on camera - there were 2
dozen news crews there

I think the goats won by keeping the brush short - 1 or 2 small
handlines kept the bld very safe

improving 911 accuracy in blds

https://www.fcc.gov/document/improving-wireless-911-location-accuracy-multi-story-buildings

my first thought is - who paid a big bribe to move this forward?

my second thought is - this will solve all the problems of the world

my third thought is - do rice crispies make me cynical?

Evac-U-Pet app

https://abc7.com/pets-animals/evac-u-pet-app-will-help-you-evacuate-your-pets-during-an-emergency/5653976/

how about Evac-U-Grandma ? - nah

EKG invented in 1901

https://twitter.com/tbouthillet/status/1189856879138234368

The first reliable electrocardiograph was Willem Einthoven's string
galvanometer invented in 1901. The subject had to place his/her hands
and feet in buckets of salt water to record a signal. Hence, the "limb
leads" we use today! Einthoven won a Nobel Prize in 1924.

US military cant jam

https://breakingdefense.com/2019/10/us-forces-untrained-not-ready-for-russian-jamming/

take out the word jamming and insert the word "airport disaster
drills" or "structural firefighting live training"

they will simulate the shutdown of some comms systems - kinda like a
firefighter in a blacked out mask

Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Re: Jurupa Valley - in Riverside County - new fire

https://twitter.com/KTLA/status/1189734933792583680

just 15 minutes to evacuate nursing home

Re: boat in distress off Malibu

reported location is 7 miles east of Point Hume - BayWatch Delray
requests that BayWatch Redondo Beach also respond

On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 10:15 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
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> listen at https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/31522/web
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> On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 10:13 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > https://twitter.com/zerg90/status/1189726822449270785

Re: boat in distress off Malibu

listen at https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/31522/web

On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 10:13 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
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> https://twitter.com/zerg90/status/1189726822449270785

boat in distress off Malibu

https://twitter.com/zerg90/status/1189726822449270785

new feed - LA County Major Incident feed

https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/31522

not sure how this will work exactly - maybe the feed will be changed
as major incidents happen

right now we are hearing Blue 3 apparently - just heard dispatcher say
"Rescue 14, Squad 14" which I think means that Squad 14 is going to a
EMS call in the Station 14 area

keywords - live scanner audio

855 people listening to Detroit Fire

https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/18629

Re: [sme2] London - Grenfel Tower Fire - many more lives could have been saved

note the comment about the fireground radios - only 1 person can talk at a time

keywords - doubles - doubling

in the report there is 1 or 2 instances were messages were not relayed
or received - not sure if they were face to face or radio messages -
one was the report from the apt over the original fire apt - that
would have been a critical message

Info from Stephen Pyne yesterday - on NPR - on On Point

https://twitter.com/zerg90/status/1189708485832953856

he said the railroads were burning up forests in the 1910s 1920s - but
they got cracked down on - and now RRs dont burn up forests anymore

he also said that we have a general legal principal in the USA - if
you break something, you fix it

Re: [sme2] London - Grenfel Tower Fire - many more lives could have been saved

very detailed info about FD ops in the report -
https://www.grenfelltowerinquiry.org.uk/phase-1-report

fireground radio channels were not recorded

45 days for comments - Calif clean trucks regs

https://twitter.com/UCSUSA/status/1189678369203511297

Re: London - Grenfel Tower Fire - many more lives could have been saved

https://www.grenfelltowerinquiry.org.uk/phase-1-report

approx 800 pages

highrise fire in London UK killed approx 90 people

re ventura county calif

https://twitter.com/VENTURASHERIFF/status/1189669926002249729

easy fire not being easy

evacuation area just expanded

video of vlat drop in ventura county

https://twitter.com/zerg90/status/1189664860336017409

plus info about administrative / financial angle

bottom line - when a VLAT makes a drop - someone pays for it - one way
or the other

Re: London - Grenfel Tower Fire - many more lives could have been saved

The report also criticized the London Fire Brigade for sending
"relatively junior rank" commanders to the scene, and for "uncertain"
communication between the control room and the responders at the
scene. Other key aspects of the report included the observations that
the resident of the apartment where the blaze began was not at fault,
and that the structural use of cladding caused the fire's spread.

"uncertain communications" - lol - nobody can say 'roger' or 'over'
anymore - everyone thinks they are on cellphones - but they aint

London - Grenfel Tower Fire - many more lives could have been saved

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1189636096059236352

keywords - bad firefighting

Re: Jurupa Valley - in Riverside County - new fire

https://twitter.com/ABC7/status/1189633192707280896

nursing home evacuated

On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 2:10 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
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> dozer operator is OK - no medical issues - per twitter
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> On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 2:05 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > https://twitter.com/Anvilhead8/status/1189603835079086080
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> > report of a dozer rollover
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> > On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 1:57 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > https://twitter.com/engineco16/status/1189600519490129920
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> > > live video
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> > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 1:28 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > Fire will threaten highway 60, requesting 5 ambulances and CHP. AA12
> > > > over the fire now.
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> > > > 3 minutes ago from twitter
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> > > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 1:12 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > > https://twitter.com/Anvilhead8/status/1189590063924908032
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> > > > > structures threatened

Kash Patel misrepresented himself to Trump

https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1189589529138794496

did he pretend to be a minion?

bee doh bee doh bee doh beee doh bee doh

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nothing to see here - he is just the guy with the nuclear football

Re: Jurupa Valley - in Riverside County - new fire

dozer operator is OK - no medical issues - per twitter

On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 2:05 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
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> https://twitter.com/Anvilhead8/status/1189603835079086080
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> report of a dozer rollover
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> On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 1:57 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > https://twitter.com/engineco16/status/1189600519490129920
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> > live video
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> > On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 1:28 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Fire will threaten highway 60, requesting 5 ambulances and CHP. AA12
> > > over the fire now.
> > >
> > > 3 minutes ago from twitter
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> > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 1:12 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > https://twitter.com/Anvilhead8/status/1189590063924908032
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> > > > structures threatened

Re: Jurupa Valley - in Riverside County - new fire

https://twitter.com/Anvilhead8/status/1189603835079086080

report of a dozer rollover

On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 1:57 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
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> https://twitter.com/engineco16/status/1189600519490129920
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> live video
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> On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 1:28 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Fire will threaten highway 60, requesting 5 ambulances and CHP. AA12
> > over the fire now.
> >
> > 3 minutes ago from twitter
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 1:12 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > https://twitter.com/Anvilhead8/status/1189590063924908032
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> > > structures threatened

re LAFD

whats up with the Getty Fire? not blowing up?

Re: Jurupa Valley - in Riverside County - new fire

https://twitter.com/engineco16/status/1189600519490129920

live video

On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 1:28 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Fire will threaten highway 60, requesting 5 ambulances and CHP. AA12
> over the fire now.
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> 3 minutes ago from twitter
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> On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 1:12 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > https://twitter.com/Anvilhead8/status/1189590063924908032
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> > structures threatened

Re: new fire starting north of Malibu

fire got knocked out by fast helo drops

cool

Orange County CA has a fire now

https://twitter.com/VCFD_PIO/status/1189598564575408128

2nd alarm - 2 homes burning -

re ventura county

https://twitter.com/VCFD_PIO/status/1189598564575408128

good quick overview of fire

new fire starting north of Malibu

https://twitter.com/VCscanner/status/1189598763070840838

at Calabassas in Los Angeles County

confirmed fire

Re: Jurupa Valley - in Riverside County - new fire

Fire will threaten highway 60, requesting 5 ambulances and CHP. AA12
over the fire now.

3 minutes ago from twitter

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> https://twitter.com/Anvilhead8/status/1189590063924908032
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> structures threatened

Jurupa Valley - in Riverside County - new fire

https://twitter.com/Anvilhead8/status/1189590063924908032

structures threatened

Re: [sme2] live video at Reagan Library as brush fire attacks

fire has passed the Reagan Library now - seems to be no damage to buildings

animal control is looking for horse trailers - see vcas.us

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skycranes are protecting reporters

https://twitter.com/zerg90/status/1189580468997496834

at Ronald Reagan Library in Ventura County

live video at Reagan Library as brush fire attacks

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1189569238010343425

extreme red flag warning saved at archive.org

https://web.archive.org/web/20191030154515/https://www.weather.gov/lox/

extreme red flag for los angeles area saved at wayback machine

FEMA Daily Ops Brief - red flags CA AZ NV

per weather.gov -

Extremely Dangerous Fire Weather Conditions for California

Critical and extremely critical fire weather conditions continue
across parts of California through Thursday, especially for southern
California. Powerful and strong offshore Santa Ana winds will combine
with very low relative humidity levels and overall dry conditions to
create unfortunately favorable conditions for rapid fire growth and
extreme fire behavior of existing and new fires.

most of CA has red flags - except central - az and nv have tiny areas
of red flags

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per https://www.weather.gov/lox/

graphic shows 'extreme red flag' but map just shows 'red flag'

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Significant Incidents or Threats:
• Kincade Fire - CA; GettyFire - CA
• Heavy rain/flash flooding possible – Tennessee Valley to Mid-Atlantic
• Extreme fire weather – CA

Tropical Activity:
• Atlantic: Disturbance 1: Medium (50%)
• Eastern Pacific: Disturbance 1: Low (20%)
• Central Pacific: No tropical cyclones are expected through the next 5 days
• Western Pacific: No activity affecting U.S. interests

Declaration Activity: None

Thousand Oaks CA - fire might be coming soon

https://twitter.com/ai6yrham/status/1189566307735232517

in Ventura County - think about evacuating now

Propagandizing firefighting

https://twitter.com/KendraWrites/status/1189347903132897281

politicizing firefighting

Tuesday, October 29, 2019

branch vs wire caused Getty Fire in Los Angeles

https://twitter.com/PIOErikScott/status/1189316094839926785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1189316094839926785&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2019%2F10%2F29%2Fus%2Fcalifornia-getty-fire-cause%2Findex.html

https://twitter.com/PIOErikScott/status/1189316094839926785

Seattle FD is in Sonoma County CA

https://twitter.com/SeattleFire/status/1189333517018251264

Re: wind gusts gif for los angeles tonight

https://twitter.com/NWSLosAngeles/status/1189314769683189760

the nws gif

On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 8:10 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
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> https://twitter.com/zerg90/status/1189333261249589248

wind gusts gif for los angeles tonight

https://twitter.com/zerg90/status/1189333261249589248

stephen pyne on npr onpoint today

talking about wildfires in california and usa

on replay on wbur fm boston now at 740 pm edt

Remi Gaillard as Firefighter

https://youtu.be/qeFKO3Fsdzw

if that is dry powder then I am sure its not good for peoples eyes or lungs

so what is it really?

bad motorcycle crash caught on dashcam

https://twitter.com/zerg90/status/1189309800787644416

japan - cameraman is fire buff maybe

Extreme red flag for California

https://twitter.com/stuartpalley/status/1189272025921134592

dont ask me what an extreme red flag is

Calif ex-convicts cant become firefighters

https://twitter.com/BillFOXLA/status/1189266456929865729

FDNY getting Ferrara SuperPumper

http://nycfire.net/forums/index.php/topic,58873.0.html

5K GPM

$1.3M

cool

1 per borough might be nice - for conflagrations - for water system
failures - for dewatering - etc

FDNY considering 300 foot snorkel

http://nycfire.net/forums/index.php/topic,58511.0.html

cool

so many other cities around the world have them

2017 list of aviation vehicles PANYNJ - 20 pages

http://corpinfo.panynj.gov/files/uploads/documents/freedom-of-information/foi-fulfilled-requests/18567-C.pdf

arff = fire vehicles

they got 24 new oshkosh arff in 2017

tip for the day

in the usa - "rescue trucks" do not have pumps - nor do they have water tanks

99% of the time

aka - rescue squads - aka "squads" (sometimes) - aka "heavy rescue"

Brooklyn Union Gas fire truck - NYC - 1983 rig

https://firepics.net/MyBB/showthread.php?tid=2213&pid=215391#pid215391

California could get very bad today

https://twitter.com/zerg90/status/1189216316273631234

Girl dressed as Carrie gets in car wreck

https://twitter.com/SidwWolfe/status/1188852730598744071

lol

for real

FEMA Daily Ops Brief - red flags CA NV AZ

per weather.gov -

Very Dangerous Fire Weather Conditions Continue in California

Critical to Extreme fire weather conditions continue across parts of
northern and southern California into Thursday. Strong offshore winds
will combine with very low relative humidity to create favorable
conditions for rapid spread of both existing fires, and new fire
starts. Elsewhere, heavy snow continues across portions of the Central
Rockies, creating hazardous travel.

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nearly all of California is red flagged except central - huge area of
NE AZ is red flagged - Las Vegas area is still red flagged

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Significant Incidents or Threats:
• Kincade Fire - CA; GettyFire - CA
• Winter Storm Warning – Northern Central Rockies
• Extreme fire weather – CA

Tropical Activity:
• Atlantic: Disturbance 1: Low (30%)
• Eastern Pacific: Disturbance 1: Low (20%)
• Central Pacific: No tropical cyclones are expected through the next 5 days
• Western Pacific: No activity affecting U.S. interests

Declaration Activity:
○ Major Disaster Declaration request - South Dakota
○ Amendment No. 1 to FEMA-4455-DR-WV

Angeles NF Morning Lineup

"Morning Lineup" on Angeles National Forest (ANF) - Monday October 28
2019 - 1240 EDT - (heard via Broadcastify feed listed previously in
this thread) - seems that not all stations were heard via this feed

Little Tujunga Station - Engine 10 - Captain plus 4 (firefighters/FF)
- Water Tender (WT) 10 with 1 operator - Dozer 10 on duty - Engine
(Eng) 310 - Engineer + 4 FF

Angeles Crest Station - Engine ??? - Engineer + 3 FF

Big Tujunga Station - Eng 13 - Capt + 3 FF - Patrol 13 on

?? Canyon Station - Eng 317 - Engineer + 4 FF

Dalton Camp Station - Eng 21 - Capt + 3 FF - Crew 2 committed (20
person handcrew of hotshots) - [ 2nd strike team ?? ] - Patrol 22 off
duty

Rincon Station - Engine 322 - Capt + 3 FF - Eng 521 (maybe a spare
rig) - Capt + 4 FF - WT 22 or WT 222 - 1 operator

San Dimas Tech Station - Eng 324 - Capt + 3 FF - Eng 326 - Capt + 3

Lower San Antonio Station - Eng 25 - Capt + 4 - WT 25 on - Patrol 25 on

Arcadia Station - ? Eng 22 + ? Eng 52 - (maybe AKA as HQ station or
Forest Supervisor Office Station)

Mill Creek Station - Eng 231 - Capt + 4 - Patrol 32 is on

?? Station - Engine 33 - Engineer + 3 - Engine 339 - Captain + 4

Chilao Station - Eng 531 (maybe spare rig) - Capt + 4 FF - Engine 36 -
Capt + 3 FF - Patrol 35 on R and R (off duty)

conclude Morning Lineup at 952 am edt

5 minutes later - Eng 33 move up to ? Green Valley ? Station

note - officers are either 'Captains' or 'Engineers' - maximum
staffing is apparently 5 people on one engine - minimum staffing might
be 4 people per engine - this might have been "heavy" staffing - dont
think they usually have 2 engines in more than 2 stations

note - Valyermo and Wrightwood apparently not heard - they are on
north side of the Forest

Question - anyone know exactly where San Dimas Tech station is located?

London Ambulance Control Room - 1 photo

https://twitter.com/LFBtomgeorge/status/1189162393013772288

Monday, October 28, 2019

Re: Los Angeles - tuesday evening - 80+ gusts

how about getting an air attack plane or a civil air patrol plane to
go up and orbit at 5K or 10K feet? would that get them above the high
winds?

Los Angeles - tuesday evening - 80+ gusts

https://twitter.com/xeni/status/1189001467169890304

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1. lets assume that aircraft cannot fly

2. lets assume that some repeater sites and cell towers will go down

3. maybe it would be a real good idea to set up a simplex countywide
command net on 154.28 - put vehicles with mobile radios on 154.28 on
the 12 highest driveable mountains

4. the only other option I see is using sat phones or maybe some
countywide TRS - or using ham channels - I dont think that any low
band channels are in service

5. maybe they need simplex radios at all of the PSAPs in the county also

Lots of people will be calling 911. No one knows where these calls
will end up. But they have to be relayed to the nearest chief officer
or fire company some how. Otherwise you are basically into "total
communications failure" mode. And all field units would then have to
operate independently without support from any other units.

anf and smp info - tonight

per anf wildcad which was updated at 9 pm edt

Santa Monica Mtns NPS has - YNP E61 + SMP E73 + SMP E74 + E652 + Div
3606 + Div 72 + Crane Valley Hand Crew + Chief 71 + Chief 4 + BLM Eng
3637 - (just Div 3606 is in service at this time - & listed as Acting
Chief) - last year they did nothing apparently when the fire burnt
thru


Angeles National Forest (ANF) has approx 19 engines available -
http://wildcad.net/WCCA-ANF.htm - at the getty incident they have ST
of TY3 engines + WT212 + 2 heli tankers + Helo 532 + 3 engs + 1 crew +
large airtanker AT107 + BC11

ANF special announcement at 538 pm edt

all fire prev and suppression personel

continue level 2 24 hr staffing

contact your district duty officer for overnight assignments

angeles national forest

Portland Maine - 108 Washington Ave - 3rd alarm

453pm edt - per their twitter feed

Getty Fire - the very beginning

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1188824103186251782

20 second video clip - 130am ish - hillside on fire next to freeway

Somerville Mass pre arrival video

https://youtu.be/V2ZOBc0-_oo

going good

cops are there - FD is not

cops might have been able to kill that fire with a couple of fire
grenades and a 50 gallon CAFS

Kincade Fire radio channels

https://forums.radioreference.com/threads/kincade-fire.396346/

sonoma county california

info about ANF

listening to Angeles National Forest feed - this is "Forest Net" -
https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/25757/web

dispatcher keeps asking aircraft to switch over to "National" for
flight following - "National" should be 168.625

one aircraft said they were calling on "Forest Net" - which confirms
this feed is relaying Forest Net traffic

Colorado wildfire - mass confusion

https://forums.radioreference.com/threads/southern-conejos-county-wildland-fire-alamosa-and-state-resources-as-mutual-aid.396361/

industrial fire quint near albany ny

http://10-75.net/apparatus/ny/albanycnty/sabic/t50.html

2 deck guns on this puppy

http://10-75.net/apparatus/hi/mauifd/ta10.html

front bumper and midship

Maui County Tanker 10

NOFD MCP

http://10-75.net/apparatus/lo/nofd/cmd.html

1 photo - mobile command post - New Orleans FD

Woolsey fire report - draft - 200 pages - released Oct 2019

https://www.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/Citygate-Working-Draft-Woolsey-Fire-Incident-AAR-10-23-19.pdf

comments on draft report can be left at
https://www.lacounty.gov/recovery/report/

Woolsey Fire report - public meeting

https://twitter.com/emily_sawicki/status/1188138685226553344

Malibu had only 7 engines when fire hit - hundreds of rigs on other
side of the mtns

ooops

feels kinda like class warfare

looney cops going out of control

https://twitter.com/zerg90/status/1188824024677322754

how many blacks work at FOX? is she 1 in a million?

FEMA Daily Ops Brief - red flags in CA

per weather.gov -

Dangerous Fire Weather Conditions Expected To Continue For California

The combination of strong offshore winds with very dry conditions and
fuels will lead to dangerous fire weather conditions across parts of
California. A number of wildfires are currently burning across the
state, including the Kincade fire,the largest in the state. Critical
to extreme threats are likely to persist in north-central and southern
California through later this week

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

NEARLY ALL OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA IS RED FLAGGED

smaller areas near Los Angeles also red flagged

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

Significant Incidents or Threats:
Kincade Fire, CA
Extreme and critical fire weather - CA
Red Flag Warnings – CA
High Wind Warnings – southern CA
Tropical Activity:
Atlantic: Disturbance 1: Low (20%); Tropical Storm Pablo
Eastern Pacific: No new tropical cyclones expected during the next five days
Central Pacific: No new tropical cyclones expected during the next five days
Western Pacific: No activity affecting U.S. interests
Declaration Activity: None

FCC report on comms vs CA outages

https://twitter.com/TinaPelkeyFCC/status/1188545396542492672

Sunday, October 27, 2019

New Freqs USA for week ending Oct 27 2019

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BSro7e0mD9ETzIrY1icyrFXKS7ORz8ulURTw0vVayCI/edit?usp=sharing
- sortable spreadsheet

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vS64ZVvhjkOu2Bbz1QoCisjCfMbY1woAXwlovM10ofl4SoDe6WMHVwTsR_CjYozG3WfMaLEAERrfCv8/pubhtml
- nonsortable spreadsheet

lots of new repeaters licensed for Dukes County Massachusetts - looks
like they are upgrading to a synchronized simulcast system

Manhattan has a fire - live vdeo

https://twitter.com/NHFirebuff18/status/1188536042795745281

great video clip

https://twitter.com/KatieKPIX/status/1188456390689296385

10 deck guns aint gonna stop that

code 3 dozer barrelling!

https://twitter.com/LucyKafanov/status/1188528642571137024

watch the video

pedal to the metal

that bld on fire has a solar panel and is on a high spot - maybe a
radio repeater?

homebuilders blocking changes to building codes

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1188525785574981634

Re: Trump let Turks kill Kurds

https://twitter.com/20committee/status/1188521133299191809

On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 11:24 AM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> https://twitter.com/LouiseMensch/status/1188475811055230976
>
> Trump let Turkey kill Kurds as the Kurds helped Trump

Is it just me?

anyone find it weird that Trump referred to Osama Bin Ladin and his
son as "handsome"?

Trump let Turks kill Kurds

https://twitter.com/LouiseMensch/status/1188475811055230976

Trump let Turkey kill Kurds as the Kurds helped Trump

Latvian firefighter catches falling woman

https://twitter.com/PJNorwood/status/1188465418995978240

Kaiser Hospital in Santa Rosa CA is evacuated

https://twitter.com/SonomaScanner/status/1188446932894531585

15 second video from Sonoma County

https://twitter.com/CphilpottCraig/status/1188452609851396099

high winds whipping flames

FEMA Daily Ops Brief - red flags CA AZ NM UT

Significant Incidents or Threats:
• California wildfires
• Extreme to critical fire weather – CA and AZ
• Red Flag Warnings – CA, AZ, NM, and UT
• High Wind Warnings – northern and southern CA
• Severe thunderstorms possible – Mid-Atlantic
• Heavy snow possible – Central Rockies and Central Plains
Tropical Activity:
• Atlantic: Tropical Storm Pablo
• Eastern Pacific: No new tropical cyclones expected during the next five days
• Central Pacific: No new tropical cyclones expected during the next five days
• Western Pacific: No activity affecting U.S. interests
Declaration Activity: None

trump rambling now

talking about his book

its not all about me but its always all about me

2nd time he called obl handsome

I wrote 12 books - all did very good

now claiming that he was the only one warning about OBL

photo of bad skin cancer

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1188032784541126657

Marc Zuckerburg looks for mom - lol

https://twitter.com/Nicoxw1/status/1188088648878702594

drilled by ACO

Twump tweet was very unsettling

https://twitter.com/joshscampbell/status/1188344460633083904

75 Oregon engines in California

https://twitter.com/CAFireScanner/status/1188322037296549889

Engineering for High Risk Buildings - from NYPD

https://twitter.com/_cryptome_/status/1188175163738734593

craig fugate recommends everyone have a portable radio

https://twitter.com/WCraigFugate/status/1188439764170657792

internet and cellphones can fail

there IS a tweet for everything - lol

https://twitter.com/traciemac_Bmore/status/1188291369124683776

trump tweeted in 2017 - seals killed obl not prez obama

social isolation in firehouses

https://twitter.com/jcag2334/status/1187883184983347200

interesting rigs - Japan

https://twitter.com/F1190180999595/status/1188289594971676672

Japan rigs dont usually have deck guns

Sonoma County has a 2nd fire - now

https://twitter.com/CAFireScanner/status/1188432817484681218

830 am edt

-----------------------

Contra Costa County also has a wildfire

Saturday, October 26, 2019

Ireland - ambulance response times are pretty bad

https://extra.ie/2019/10/26/news/irish-news/ambulances-take-over-an-hour-emergency-cases

2 hour wait for man who fell outside of a nursing home

goal is 80% 19 minutes for life threatening emergencies - which is
approx a 10 minute average by my figuring

no mention if any first responders go to the ambulance calls

San Francisco area going to get slammed tonight

https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1188174136364810240

70 mph gusts just after midnight

2.8M losing power in California

https://twitter.com/lookner/status/1188172430428327938

lots of hot air in this news report

https://abc7news.com/insurance-companies-refusing-policies-in-wildfire-areas/5647865/

insurance companies refusing policies in wildfire areas

no real info in this news report - there is a last chance pool that
can cover homeowners

would be nice if there were some hard facts in this report - like -
how much exposure is there really? how many were not covered in the
Paradise fire? 25%?

there are probably 500 unused fire trucks sitting in WA OR ID MT right
now - just go to wildcad and pull the resource lists for those states
- see how many rigs are unstaffed today

Mariposa County fire tone outs feed

https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/31459

fire tone outs / pages only

fire toneouts only

FTO only

using FTO feature of the scanner

thats kinda cool

I think they use the FTO feature because this 1 channel is used to
page fire units in Mariposa County, Merced County, and Madera Countys

keywords - openness - live scanner audio

emergency radios for civilians - thread on twitter

https://twitter.com/bbdd333/status/1188125068234125313

$25 baofeng might work for them

orange county has at least 1 vhf fire channel

and usfs and calfire and la county has lots of vhf and uhf channels

but orco is all 800 pretty much

could put 154.60 or 154.54 or 154.57 into baofengs - even 146.50

Sonoma County CA - 50K just got evac orders

https://twitter.com/NorthBayNews/status/1188141581049556994

London FD says - call before you film

https://twitter.com/LondonFire/status/1188109780193140738

FEMA Daily Ops Brief - red flags in CA + NV

per weather.gov

Critical Fire Weather in California; Heavy Rain And Flash Flooding
from Mid-Mississippi/Ohio Valleys to the Deep South

Gusty winds and very dry conditions will allow critical fire weather
threats to continue in California this weekend, especially in parts of
northern California where dangerous conditions will develop.
Meanwhile, tropical moisture will produce heavy rain and flash
flooding from parts of the Deep South to the Mid-Miss. Valley and Ohio
Valley on Saturday.

(central Nevada and northern coastal California have the Red Flags)

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


Significant Incidents or Threats:
• Kincade Fire - CA; Tick Fire - CA
• Heavy rain and flooding possible – Middle Mississippi and Ohio
valleys and the Carolinas
• Elevated/Critical fire weather – CA

Tropical Activity:
• Atlantic:
o Tropical Storm Pablo (FINAL)
• Eastern Pacific: No tropical cyclones are expected through the next 5 days
• Central Pacific: No tropical cyclones are expected through the next 5 days
• Western Pacific: No activity affecting U.S. interests

Declaration Activity: None

Private firefighters for wealthy Californians

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1188100483128401922

what the law says - threats of terror

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

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

Friday, October 25, 2019

Sonoma County now - long range spotting

https://twitter.com/CAFireScanner/status/1187888906504523776

Dual band HTs - just 2 or 3 choices

https://forums.radioreference.com/threads/firefighter-looking-for-dual-band-vhf-uhf-radio.396110/page-2

Atlanta GA medevac helos - comms systems info

https://forums.radioreference.com/threads/medical-helicopters-in-the-atlanta-area.395312/

Re: Sonoma County CA has wildfire

49 structures have burnt per ktla

might be 49 outhouses

FEMA Daily Ops Brief - red flags in CA

per weather.gov

Extreme Fire Weather Threats in California; Heavy Rain and Flash Flood
Potential in the Deep South

Strong winds and very dry conditions continue to produce extreme fire
weather threats in southern California. Threats across northern
California increase again this weekend. Meanwhile, a strong cold front
will combine with tropical moisture from the Gulf of Mexico to produce
heavy rain with potential for flash flooding across the Lower
Mississippi Valley through tonight.

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


Significant Incidents or Threats:
• Kincade Fire - CA; Tick Fire - CA
• Heavy rain and flooding possible – Lower Mississippi Valley
• Elevated/Critical/Extreme fire weather – CA

Tropical Activity:
• Atlantic:
o Disturbance 1: High (70%); Disturbance 2: Low (20%)
• Eastern Pacific: No tropical cyclones are expected through the next 5 days
• Central Pacific: No tropical cyclones are expected through the next 5 days
• Western Pacific: No activity affecting U.S. interests

Declaration Activity:
• Request for Major Disaster Declaration - Nebraska
• Amendment No. 1 to FEMA-4466-DR-TX
• Amendment No. 1 to FEMA-4461-DR-IL

staffing of Massachusetts ambs - state law

https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXVI/Chapter111C/Section25

this might be the only state law that addresses the staffing of
ambulances in Massachusetts

basically its says - at a minimum - any ambulance that transports an
ALS patient has to be staffed by at least 1 medic and 1 EMT - also -
it is OK to staff with 2 medics

June 2019 Mass amb list

https://www.mass.gov/files/documents/2019/06/12/ambulance-services-list-june-2019.pdf

Tule River Amb is now ALS

https://www.co.fresno.ca.us/home/showdocument?id=37864

Indians

man shot 15 times - walks into ER

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1187709165898215424

800# for Boston Med Flight is back in service

Our #800 number is back in service for emergency transports. Please
dial 1-800-233-8998 to reach our Communications Center. Thank you.

via twitter

Humboldt Toiyabe gets new FMO

https://mynews4.com/news/local/humboldt-toiyabe-national-forest-names-new-fire-management-officer

Humboldt Toiyabe National Forest gets new Fire Management Officer

Altus AFB gets new hazmat truck

https://www.altus.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1997174/97-ces-receives-welcomes-new-fire-truck/

iirc oklahoma

New Bedford MA - closest engine browned out - fatal fire

https://turnto10.com/news/local/after-fatal-fire-some-question-new-bedfords-cost-cutting-solution

Albuquerque breaks ground on new Station 9

https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerque-metro/albuquerque-fire-rescue-breaks-ground-on-new-fire-station/

replacement station

Chilmark MA seeks new fire station

https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2019/10/24/new-fire-station-funding-tops-chilmark-special-town-meeting

San Francisco area - screaming winds this weekend

https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/1187578462762090496

Re: sanata clarita calif - 3rd alarm brush

friday morning - homes burning - per
https://twitter.com/ABC7Brandi/status/1187684667220090880

Thursday, October 24, 2019

Re: Santa Clarita Calif needs to evacuate and fast

told ya it was 3 acres lol - sqd 149 has named it Old Fire - Lake
Hughes at the Old Road is staging / reporting - 3/4 miles N of Lake
Hughes Rd - bumping against homes already - running uphill

On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 6:23 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 621 pm - new start - 14 at Newhall - tv helo showed it - maybe 3 acres
> already before FD even aware
>
> its off to the races - cant contain with 1 or 2 airtankers - per air
> attack at 623 pm edt - bumping against houses now per squad 149 -
> copter 14 is sole response

Re: Santa Clarita Calif needs to evacuate and fast

621 pm - new start - 14 at Newhall - tv helo showed it - maybe 3 acres
already before FD even aware

its off to the races - cant contain with 1 or 2 airtankers - per air
attack at 623 pm edt - bumping against houses now per squad 149 -
copter 14 is sole response

Re: Santa Clarita Calif needs to evacuate and fast

https://twitter.com/engineco16/status/1187487792114237440

recommended evac area by civilian

Re: Santa Clarita Calif needs to evacuate and fast

fire has now spotted west of sand canyon - expand evac area 1 mile to
west - expand evac area all way down sierra hwy to soledad - 552 pm
edt

1 mile long range spotting

On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 5:47 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> https://twitter.com/zerg90/status/1187485527353778177
>
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 5:39 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > per twitter
> >
> > https://twitter.com/SCscanner1/status/1187482402769297410

Re: Santa Clarita Calif needs to evacuate and fast

https://twitter.com/zerg90/status/1187485527353778177

On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 5:39 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> per twitter
>
> https://twitter.com/SCscanner1/status/1187482402769297410

Santa Clarita Calif needs to evacuate and fast

per twitter

https://twitter.com/SCscanner1/status/1187482402769297410

sanata clarita calif - 3rd alarm brush

fire moving toward homes

in los angeles county

boise idaho wildcad lineup today

available - 1 engine + 1 dozer + 1 patrol - blm

and the state has 2 engines available

per http://www.wildcad.net/WCIDBDC.htm

Re: Woolsey Fire response had problems

Technology upgrades, such as adding global positioning system tracking
to all county vehicles and establishing systems for using low-tech
tools like AM or amateur radios, which are more durable during
catastrophic events, should become the norm, the report states.

On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 3:11 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-23/woolsey-fire-cause-report-malibu
>
> 2018 - in Los Angeles County
>
> complete report will be released on Saturday

Woolsey Fire response had problems

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-23/woolsey-fire-cause-report-malibu

2018 - in Los Angeles County

complete report will be released on Saturday

Re: San Bernardino NF has 50 acre fire

video at 1000 am edt shows no smoke no fire

Re: Orange County CA now has a wildfire

tko on the fire-oh

https://twitter.com/engineco16/status/1187366988873527296

On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 7:19 AM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> https://twitter.com/CAFireScanner/status/1187325840356302849
>
> car crash caused Santiago Fire

FEMA Daily Ops Brief - red flags CA AZ NV

Significant Incidents or Threats:
Heavy rain and flash flooding possible – Southern Plains
Fires and Extremely Critical Fire Weather – CA, AZ, and NV
Red Flag Warnings – CA, AZ and NV

Tropical Activity:
Atlantic: Disturbance 1: Low (30%)
Eastern Pacific: No new tropical cyclones are expected during the next five days
Central Pacific: No new tropical cyclones are expected during the next five days
Western Pacific: No activity affecting U.S. interests

Declaration Activity:
None

Re: Sonoma County CA has wildfire

fire hitting casino soon - 821 am edt

On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 8:19 AM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> fire now at Robert Young Winery per scanner at 818 am edt
>
> https://goo.gl/maps/udeiSAttYYxsSNbe9
>
> Sonoma County CA - on VFIRE 25 - Kincaid Fire
>
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 7:26 AM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > https://twitter.com/bbcweather/status/1187324130187776000 - 4 photos from BBC

Re: Sonoma County CA has wildfire

fire now at Robert Young Winery per scanner at 818 am edt

https://goo.gl/maps/udeiSAttYYxsSNbe9

Sonoma County CA - on VFIRE 25 - Kincaid Fire

On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 7:26 AM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> https://twitter.com/bbcweather/status/1187324130187776000 - 4 photos from BBC

Cal Fire website is changing

https://fire.ca.gov/units/lmu/lmu-facilities/

this new page show stations in Lassen Modoc Ranger Unit

Re: San Bernardino NF has 50 acre fire

https://twitter.com/FirePhotoGirl/status/1187329721371000832

evacs underway - video clip

On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 7:04 AM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> https://twitter.com/564FIREPhoto/status/1187322150698414080
>
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 7:00 AM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > santa winds coming soon

Re: Sonoma County CA has wildfire

https://twitter.com/bbcweather/status/1187324130187776000 - 4 photos from BBC

Orange County CA now has a wildfire

https://twitter.com/CAFireScanner/status/1187325840356302849

car crash caused Santiago Fire

Re: Sonoma County CA has wildfire

fire is east of Geyserville and north of healdsburg - moving from
wilderness into vineyard

fire burning across kendal jackson vineyard now per scanner at 712 am
edt - pine flat road area - going to impact structures

radio traffic is coming from "Command" channel - just told strike team
9270 charlie to come in code 3 and do structure protection - Hwy 128
to ? Pine Flat Rd ?

keywords - live scanner audio - openness

On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 7:06 AM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> lookner just said 10,000 acres on this fire
>
> thats huge if true
>
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 6:59 AM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > https://twitter.com/AgendaFreeTV/status/1187263134731423745
> >
> > lookner is live streaming live scanner audio
> >
> > pilot recently said "fire is settling down" in at least 1 area
> >
> > saw lookner wince when tones dropped lol

Re: Sonoma County CA has wildfire

lookner just said 10,000 acres on this fire

thats huge if true

On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 6:59 AM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> https://twitter.com/AgendaFreeTV/status/1187263134731423745
>
> lookner is live streaming live scanner audio
>
> pilot recently said "fire is settling down" in at least 1 area
>
> saw lookner wince when tones dropped lol

Re: San Bernardino NF has 50 acre fire

https://twitter.com/564FIREPhoto/status/1187322150698414080

On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 7:00 AM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> santa winds coming soon

San Bernardino NF has 50 acre fire

santa winds coming soon

Sonoma County CA has wildfire

https://twitter.com/AgendaFreeTV/status/1187263134731423745

lookner is live streaming live scanner audio

pilot recently said "fire is settling down" in at least 1 area

saw lookner wince when tones dropped lol

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Update on Hurricane Dorian vs Bahamas

https://twitter.com/zerg90/status/1187153243790548992

61 dead - 400 missing - (maybe latest info)

AMR in Buffalo NY now using FirstNet

https://forums.radioreference.com/threads/amr-buffalo.394302/

AMR is possibly moving to FirstNet nationwide

kinda makes sense - a private company that does lots of public
business using a public/private radio system

Buchanon FD to tractor trailer fire

https://youtu.be/eC8sr4Zb0js

does the insurance industry consider this to be a fire loss in the
(Town of?) Buchanon even though it is on the highway?

maybe west virginia

8 minute video - daytime - big loomup before arriving at scene

anthony anthony

wbur - 341 pm - long report on the famous prince spaghetti ad based in
the Boston North End

Massachusetts - 1957 forest fire truck

http://www.massfiretrucks.com/MAFFC_Patrol_10-4_TA.jpg

still in front line service - maybe

maybe only goes to 1 call every 10 years now

Re: 3 year old kidnapped n Birmingham AL

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1187042748660101122

little girl found dead - 2 arrested

Info about Prince William County FD in Virginia

Prince William County - The eight volunteer departments operate 15
stations throughout the county and are staffed with volunteers weekday
evenings, weekends, and holidays. per
https://pwcfirerescuevolunteers.org/

-----------------------------------

paid guys work weekdays only apparently

how odd is that - I think that Prince Georges County MD on the other
side of Wash DC does the same thing - might be multi other county FDs
in that area that essentially do the same thing

probably will be fewer and fewer people willing to volunteer for that
type of setup - especially if they lose a bunch of vols at an incident

El Dorado County CA - deputy killed - ridealong injured

https://twitter.com/KTLA/status/1187027048130236416

Ho Li Fuk

https://twitter.com/FordJohnathan5/status/1187021006453559296

republicans storm secure meeting room in US Capitol

is this confirmed?

Millbury Mass firefighter gets award for rescue

https://www.telegram.com/news/20191022/millbury-firefighter-michael-breault-recognized-for-rescue

Worcester County District Attorney also helped with rescue after truck
rolled over

keywords - good samaritans - great samaritans

Aldie VA - new site for new station

https://www.loudountimes.com/news/loudoun-county-purchases-new-site-for-aldie-fire-station-after/article_328973c2-f3b1-11e9-b890-034bbf3eb68a.html

in Loudon County

Lawton OK delay on new fire station 2

https://web.archive.org/web/20191023142708/https://swoknews.com/web/20191023000000*/http://swoknews.com/web/20191023000000*/https://swoknews.com/local/new-wrinkle-causes-delay-completion-fire-station

3 bay station - per photo

internet archive is going crazy on me today

new station at airport - needs $40K commercial exhaust hood on stove -
big headache now

Farmington Maine building new fire training facility

https://wgme.com/news/local/maine-towns-building-new-live-fire-training-facilities

Seekonk Mass - again looking for a new Fire Chief

https://www.thesunchronicle.com/news/local_news/seekonk-again-looking-for-new-fire-chief/article_0baab429-896d-5159-b5fb-bd0ff7357509.html

FEMA Daily Ops Brief - red flags CA AZ NV

per weather.gov -

Heavy Snow for Denver Foothills; Critical Fire Weather Threats in California

A strong cold front moving into the Plains will produce heavy snow, up
to a foot, across the Colorado Front Range foothills, including
southwest of the Denver metro area. Strong winds behind the front will
create critical fire weather threats across much of California through
Friday. Later this week, this front will produce heavy rain from the
South Plains to the Tennessee Valley.

shows red flags in large areas of northern and southern California -
but not central Calif - tiny areas of NV and AZ along Colorado River
to Las Vegas

---------------------------------------------


Significant Incidents or Threats:
Critical fire weather – northern and southern CA
Red Flag Warnings – CA, AZ and NV
Heavy snow possible – CO
Tropical Activity:
Atlantic: Disturbance 1: Low (30%)
Eastern Pacific: No new tropical cyclones are expected during the next five days
Central Pacific: Disturbance 1: Low (20%)
Western Pacific: No activity affecting U.S. interests
Declaration Activity:
Approval: FMAG – Kahana Ridge Fire, Hawaii

spanish fort al getting new hq on wayside dr

https://mynbc15.com/news/local/spanish-fort-increases-funding-for-fire-department-amid-efforts-to-keep-up-with-growth

Saint George Utah getting Station 9

https://www.abc4.com/news/southern-utah/st-george-fire-department-will-need-to-expand-quickly-officials-say/

have 7 sta now - 3 are staffed FT

Utah trooper makes great save

https://twitter.com/CBSEveningNews/status/1184578079215308805

car was hit by train

caught on cops dashcam

9yo boy charged with starting fatal Illinois fire

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kyle-alwood-murder-case-boy-accused-setting-deadly-fire-arraignment-court-today-2019-10-21/

Ground broken for new Hadley Mass substation

https://www.gazettenet.com/Ceremonial-groundbreaking-for-fire-substation-in-Hadley-to-be-held-on-Wednesday-29552882

Ash Grove buy land for new fire station

https://www.ky3.com/content/news/Ash-Grove-Fire-Protection-District-buys-land-for-new-fire-station-563613811.html

maybe Missouri

FD in Rockland County NY gets new brush truck

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2019/10/21/rockland-county-gets-new-fire-truck-to-help-fight-hard-to-reach-fires/

Woman badly burned in New Bedford Mass fire

https://turnto10.com/news/local/woman-left-severely-burned-in-new-bedford-fire-authorities-say

San Diego County has new fire safety plans

https://www.kpbs.org/news/2019/oct/18/san-diego-county-releases-new-personal-disaster-pl/

New fire station opens in Beaufort County SC

https://www.wjcl.com/article/new-fire-station-opens-in-beaufort-county-growth-seen-across-area/29395880#

Dudley Mass cut ribbon on new fire station

https://www.telegram.com/news/20191019/dudley-cuts-ribbon-on-new-fire-station

Google has new superfast quantum computer

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1186996403488333824

openness - encryption

video - crazy wisconsin chase

https://youtu.be/80pvJFqfXtk?t=622

this is the crazy part - 3 minutes

the first 10 minutes shows the deputy responding towards the chase -
left lane vehicles keep slowing him down - people are yapping all over
the comments about this - they seem to have no clue as to what happens
when a car approaches from behind at 100 MPH on a 55 mph road -
everyone seems to think that sirens can be heard 5 miles away - the
video is pretty good proof that sirens cannot be heard 1 car length
away sometimes

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

burner phones got burned

https://twitter.com/zerg90/status/1186748817363865603

--------------------------

blessed mother of encryption dont fail me now

doh!

----------------------------

openness - live scanner audio - the other side of the encryption coin

Athens Clarke County GA got new Station 2

https://sites.google.com/site/usapublicsafety/home/georgia/athens-clarke-county

opened Oct 19 2019

placed on map

Athens-Clarke County FD - 2019 Strategic Plan

https://www.athensclarkecounty.com/DocumentCenter/View/62645/Athens-Clarke-County-GA-Strategic-Plan-2019---2024--Final-Revised

52 pages - Georgia

LAPD got new CAD today

https://twitter.com/911LAPD/status/1186723246630039552

4 photos

Long Meadow MD has new fire station

https://www.heraldmailmedia.com/news/local/long-meadow-fire-company-to-show-off-new-building/article_a4f57b45-c6f9-5199-8c86-65967180205c.html

in Washington County

110 pm first tweet by santa rosa pd

https://web.archive.org/web/20191022175343/https://twitter.com/hashtag/ridgewayshooting?src=hashtag_click

unknown time of incident

openness - live scanner audio

stop saying hawaii in there

https://youtu.be/9uvEhyms08A

Moe sings godd - haaaaaa

FEMA Daily Ops Brief - no red flags today

per weather.gov

Typhoon Bualoi Moving Away from CNMI; Strong to Severe Storms in the
Southeast; Another Cold Western Storm

Typhoon Bualoi is moving northwest and away from CNMI, but heavy rain,
flooding, and gusty winds will continue into Tuesday. A cold front
moves into the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic with potential for severe
storms with damaging winds and brief tornadoes. Out West, a new cold
storm will bring mountain snow and strong winds, which will increase
fire weather threats for portions of California.

no red flags but there are 7 fire weather watches posted for
California - covering a large area of the state - Eureka to San Diego

------------------------------------------------


Significant Incidents or Threats:
•Typhoon Bualoi (22W) FINAL
•Severe thunderstorms possible Mid Atlantic
Tropical Activity:
•Atlantic: No new tropical cyclones are expected during the next five days
•Eastern Pacific: No new tropical cyclones are expected during the
next five days
•Central Pacific: Disturbance 1: Medium (40%)
•Western Pacific: Typhoon Bualoi (22W) FINAL
Declaration Activity:
•Approval: Major Disaster Declaration Florida

tornado warning subpar on DFW TV

https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/1186454192078163973

and when the internet goes down all the warning systems go poof

except my scanner

thank you ole mighty scanner

openness - live scanner audio

southern California faces scattered fire storms

santa annas are coming

what can be done about it?

https://twitter.com/zerg90/status/1186629322154631168

I wonder if the Fire Gel stuff is any good? If people could use a
garden house to gel down their entire home for $50 - I am sure that
thousands of guys would do it

frequent flyer is a derogatory term

https://twitter.com/traependergrast/status/1186339030134349826

Missing woman - Fort Worth Texas

https://twitter.com/castillo_memory/status/1185231065327308801

just found this randomly on Twitter

Sunday, October 20, 2019

Re: [sme2] Free Access to NASCAR "scanner"

that was pretty good - I listened to the winner on the last few laps -
and misc other parts of the race - little bit of cussin

overall - comms sound like air traffic control - very precise - very
short - spotter is telling driver who is around him and the relative
positions of the main contenders - "2 back" = (2 car lengths back) -
"2 in your mirror" - "clear" - "clear" - "door" - "back bumper" -
clear - clear - (doing a pass I guess) - etc

there were some huge doubles - maybe because there are 2 spotters and
1 driver on the channel

sometimes drivers are heard - sometimes they are not

spotter is always heard - aka Tower

"Garage" might have been the 2nd spotter that I heard - or 2nd base on
the winning drivers freq
'
the officials channel just seemed to have Elgin 1 and Elgin 2 - which
both seemed to be sweepers - mention of wrecks but no safety crews
heard

options - you can chose to listen to ---- "mrn" (commentators) -
officials - scan (all drivers I suppose) - then each individual driver

New Freqs USA for week ending Oct 20 2019

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zBIU2ZUTEJ9QLpSsp3ft6jVDGmUOm9bvLZHBnTbCRdM/edit?usp=sharing
- sortable spreadsheet

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRWntTjoQyz1VmHIu-eL2zjKz4ybWtLV-Hnnv_T67cmgQqdghsCE733_60nGxuka3ogDzBJL_q5HW-7/pubhtml
- non sortable spreadsheet

News Orleans action today

https://twitter.com/SharkNewsWires/status/1186006915467358221

blowing up 2 cranes

did not go as planned maybe

1 minute video

----------------------

not sure why this did this - if cranes were stable enough to place
explosives - werent they stable enough to disassemble? maybe there are
no cranes tall enough to take down those 2 cranes? maybe too much work
to set up 2 more cranes in hazard collapse zone? maybe a helo would be
too windy?

Re: [sme2] Free Access to NASCAR "scanner"

using https://www.nascar.com/racecenter - scanner is showing (in
green) near top of page - I picked "officials" - and heard someone say
something - yup - hearing more messages - watching someone in stands

did not have to enter credit card - did not have to pick race

Salkum WA FD feed

https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/31415/web

busy channel - somewhere south of Olympia WA - have heard 3 calls
paged out in last 5 minutes - 154.19 - maybe Pierce County

live scanner audio

Free Access to NASCAR "scanner"

https://www.nascar.com/racecenter - access here during the event which
apparently starts at 230 pm edt

will be free until "Homestead" - whenever that is

fee access per Email received today

"listen to drivers and spotters"

iirc in the past they required a credit card or debit card number to
sign up for the "free" scanner

--------------------------------

this url might be useful also - https://www.nascar.com/scanner

-------------------------

keywords - live scanner audio - openness - automobile racing

this is very very very interesting

https://twitter.com/20committee/status/1185925287600676865

hillary clintons buddy somehow got access to very very very secret
info - back in 2011

2016 article by John Schindler

US political system has to be reformed

https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/1185909553549991937

trump will announce that life expectancy is magically going back
upwards again - and everyone will go back to sleep

FEMA Daily Ops Brief - red flags CO NM KS OK TX CA

per weather.gov -

Heavy Rain Expected In The Mid-Atlantic; Strong System Sweeps Into Plains

Locally heavy rainfall and a few severe thunderstorms are possible
over the Mid-Atlantic into eastern North Carolina, as the remnants of
Nestor move across the region today. Elsewhere, a very strong storm
system will sweep into the Plains and severe thunderstorms with very
large hail, damaging winds, heavy rain and a few tornadoes are
expected from parts of Texas and Oklahoma into Arkansas.

red flags at - CO NM KS OK TX CA - per
https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&wwa=Red%20Flag%20Warning


Significant Incidents or Threats:
• Typhoon Bualoi
• Remnants Nestor – FINAL

Tropical Activity:
• Atlantic: No new tropical cyclones are expected during the next five days
• Eastern Pacific: Tropical Storm Priscilla
• Central Pacific: Disturbance 1: Low (20%)
• Western Pacific: Typhoon Bualoi

Declaration Activity: None

Saturday, October 19, 2019

FDNY Rapid Water info - some

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBD_enUS870US870&ei=7JGrXd6JI8em_Qah1qDQAw&q=rapid+water+fdny&oq=rapid+water+fdny&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0i22i30.10445.14236..15454...0.2..0.114.1239.10j3......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i71j33i10j33i160j0i22i10i30j0.Ub-_X2lsrs0&ved=0ahUKEwjer4Cbs6nlAhVHU98KHSErCDoQ4dUDCAs&uact=5

Tucson AZ FD now has computer voice dispatch

https://forums.radioreference.com/threads/tucson-fire-automated-dispatch.396050/

Tucson Ariaona FD - Tucson FD - Tucson Fire

------------------------------

previous post was about Charlotte FD - Charlotte NC FD - Charlotte
North Carolina Fire - Charlotte Fire - Charlotte NC Fire

the guy that can write software to smarten up computers that all 5 of
them things are the same thing - will make millions

Charlotte NC FD radio ops explained

https://forums.radioreference.com/threads/charlotte-fire-questions.396045/

brief explanation

1 computer voice dispatch channel pus several response / ops channels

1 TG reserved for the airport units

2 TG are encrypted

Mondays - all calls are dispatched by a human

radio zone (bank) 5 has training channels

radio zone 2 has overflow channels

Man charged re Athol MA church fire

https://twitter.com/7News/status/1185611568618147840

DC cant dispatch

https://www.statter911.com/2019/10/10/communication-failures-confusion-after-metro-trains-collide-in-dc/

everyone sing along - to I Cant Dance - by Genesis / Phil Collins

DC cant dispatch
DC cant dispatch
Only thing about me is the way I transmit
DC cant dispatch
DC cant dispatch
Im just standing here selling nothing

live video New Orleans bld collapse site

https://youtu.be/3eam-0ysLOQ

nothing obvious going on now

still trying to make the bld safe apparently

Beijing FD blows thru 8 lane intersection

https://youtu.be/arjJmuUKMRI

maybe 10 lane even

FEMA Daily Ops Brief - red flags in CO UT NV CA

https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&wwa=Red%20Flag%20Warning
- 4 states have red flags

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

Significant Incidents or Threats:
• Tropical Storm Nestor

Tropical Activity:
• Atlantic: Tropical Storm Nestor
• Eastern Pacific: Tropical Depression Octave; Disturbance 1: Low
(30%); Disturbance 2: Low (10%)
• Central Pacific: No new tropical cyclones are expected during the
next five days
• Western Pacific: Tropical Depression 22W

Declaration Activity:
• 2 Amendments

FEMA Daily Ops Briefing 10-19-2019.pdf

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Locomotive - Baton Rouge LA

https://goo.gl/maps/NjFU6ZAQqaicXp1j9

looks like an Oshkosh truck to me

hidden service body on pickup truck

https://twitter.com/engineers_feed/status/1185532312743796736

15 second video

Re: a real mobile home

yup - this is Jodie Rd here - per google maps

On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 8:26 AM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> new sta opened on Aug 23 - not sure of exact location however - Jodie
> Rd somewhere - maybe the bid docs have more info
>
> https://www.facebook.com/ChaneyvilleVolunteerFireDepartment/posts/2450749438347660
>
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 8:23 AM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > https://goo.gl/maps/gXFvYhbWRAt6XAQ78
> >
> > the real deal - 3 axles
> >
> > new fire station being built at end of street there - has not shown up
> > in street view yet - nothing in sat view either - nor is the 3 bay
> > garage next to the mobile home

Re: a real mobile home

new sta opened on Aug 23 - not sure of exact location however - Jodie
Rd somewhere - maybe the bid docs have more info

https://www.facebook.com/ChaneyvilleVolunteerFireDepartment/posts/2450749438347660

On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 8:23 AM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> https://goo.gl/maps/gXFvYhbWRAt6XAQ78
>
> the real deal - 3 axles
>
> new fire station being built at end of street there - has not shown up
> in street view yet - nothing in sat view either - nor is the 3 bay
> garage next to the mobile home

a real mobile home

https://goo.gl/maps/gXFvYhbWRAt6XAQ78

the real deal - 3 axles

new fire station being built at end of street there - has not shown up
in street view yet - nothing in sat view either - nor is the 3 bay
garage next to the mobile home

Friday, October 18, 2019

guy with no hands making toys

https://youtu.be/KDGLs6Ne7UI

inspirational

little girl is leaning in there - how the heck does he do that?

nice 15 minute video - helo tour of NYC

https://youtu.be/1aufyfoM2RI

from 2012

how well do cellphones work in all of those highrises?

live drive - NYC to Binghamton NY

https://youtu.be/LPp9dghAgOQ

video is breaking up sometimes

odd

roadwaywiz is the YT account

new EMTs should take GIS classes

https://twitter.com/Southrn_Melle/status/1184858939176960003

New 'C-Thru" mask for firefighters

https://twitter.com/pain24seven/status/1185274348158050304

3 minute Sacramento video - bad car wreck

https://youtu.be/EOm-Wgl9_08

6 antennas on Battalion buggy

box on sprinter chassis - cool

tiller aerial

Saddle Ridge Fire destroyed 17 homes

https://youtu.be/h_ek7hZz6H0

straight from the chiefs mouth

'thousands of homes saved' - lets think about that - what would have
happened if there was no FD? - did the FD really stop the fire? - or
were the winds just blowing in the right directions? - are all the
wood shake roofs gone now? - if so - how much would the fire spread
thru a urban area in Los Angeles City? considering that the whole town
is full of dry vegetation and trash, then I suppose it is possible
that everything in San Fernando Valley and Malibu could have burnt
down - but it depends on how strong and how long the winds blow

if the winds blew at 70 mph for 10 hours - then I could see the brands
going for 20 or 30 miles

like the Chief said - gotta trim branches and clean gutters - probably
need to take a weed wacker to every square inch of the place also

3 minute video from Bangladesh

https://youtu.be/bx-e-o88xl8

oil tanker vs dump truck

unknown if drivers killed

2 interesting fire trucks

Ted Danson is a fire squid

https://youtu.be/aoAc7bjtIso

is this part of some saga?

2 minute video

part of a NBC TV show apparently

San Diego CA house fire kills 3

https://youtu.be/1ZVwCOe7fuQ

see the 1/1st comment

3 minute news report

sad

LAFD Commission - Oct 1 2019 meeting

https://youtu.be/Y26k6i4httM

10:00 approx - talk about save of SWAT cop and save of male 21 at LAX

this is audio tape of meeting plus captions

OK Chief - we got it

https://youtu.be/eiIvJVpdWqQ

1 minute video

kid gives Dilwali fire safety pep talk

new fire station in Arizona

https://youtu.be/_Z8-5b7b5ps

hell of a simulation - 1 minute video

Copper Canyon FD near Camp Verde Arizona

nice elevator music also

note the description written by the architect - flowery

Phillipines - huge 5 alarm fire

https://youtu.be/WQYA5GEs53Y

6 minute response video - which shows little

but check out the photos at the end - especially the last one

Santa Barbara County CA - red flag going up at 4pm

https://twitter.com/EliasonMike/status/1185238906184204288

yup - nws has the warning - apparently was issued at 1241 pm edt / 941
am pdt - https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&wwa=Red%20Flag%20Warning

keyword - FEMA Daily Ops Brief (not mentioned in earlier blurb)

Trauma code for all patients over 70

https://twitter.com/jem_journal/status/1185200359129735168

FEMA Daily Ops Brief - red flag in CO

per weather.gov

Potential Tropical Cyclone Sixteen Expected To Impact The Southeast
U.S. Through The Weekend

Potential Tropical Cyclone Sixteen is forecast to develop on Friday
before making landfall over the Florida Panhandle early Saturday.
Tropical storm force winds, storm surge flooding, heavy rainfall, and
dangerous rip currents are expected. The system will then track
northeast and bring locally heavy rainfall and gusty winds to Georgia
through the Carolinas this weekend as the storm weakens.

(just far SE Colorado has red flags)

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


Significant Incidents or Threats:
• Potential Tropical Cyclone Sixteen

Tropical Activity:
• Atlantic: Potential Tropical Cyclone Sixteen
• Eastern Pacific: Tropical Storm Octave
• Central Pacific: No new tropical cyclones are expected during the
next five days
• Western Pacific: No activity affecting U.S. interests

Declaration Activity:
• Three Amendments

Hanceville AL - rural fire safety is poor

https://www.cullmantimes.com/news/demographics-and-finances-hanceville-fire-department-sees-slight-uptick-in/article_a7462aec-a448-11e9-b74c-f7f2e48c96cb.html

sounds like they need a bunch of free smoke detectors

town population is 4,000 - 95% white - (I am not sure who lives
outside of town in rural areas)

3 year old kidnapped n Birmingham AL

https://www.waff.com/2019/10/15/search-kamille-mckinney-heres-what-we-know/

related - 39yo male arrested for obscene material

black child - black male and white female and black female suspects

SUV involved

Maine - 2 tankers collide during water shuttle

https://bangordailynews.com/2019/10/17/news/midcoast/firefighters-injured-after-trucks-collide-while-fighting-blaze-in-st-george/?amp=1

Knox County

Thursday, October 17, 2019

Less than 200 1 room schools in USA now

NBC News
@NBCNews
·6m
Less than 200 public schools in the US have only one teacher, down
from about 200,000 in the early 1900s, according to a 2017 report.
Most of the remaining one-room schoolhouses are in states with large
rural areas, such as Nevada, Wyoming, and Montana.

live video - Goleta CA - wildfire

https://www.keyt.com/livestream2

5 pages to this thread now

https://forums.radioreference.com/threads/russia-hacked-lightweight-fbi-radios.394584/page-5

enigma - encryption - fbi - kgb - etc

Halifax NS - all career rigs have MDTs now

https://twitter.com/HRMFireNews/status/1184861326256029696

more MDTs being added to volunteer rigs

FEMA Daily Ops Brief - red flags in WY SD KS CO OK TX NM UT

red flags mostly in UT and CO and southern WY and eastern WY - with
small parts of adjacent states

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

per weather.gov -

Powerful Fall Storm Impacting The Northeast; Potential Tropical
Cyclone Sixteen Forms

A powerful storm will continue to deliver strong winds, locally heavy
rain, and numerous coastal hazards from the Mid-Atlantic to New
England today. These winds may down trees, power lines, and cause
power outages. Also, Potential Tropical Cyclone Sixteen has formed in
the southwestern Gulf of Mexico. Tropical Storm Watches and Warnings
are in effect from southeast Louisiana to northwest Florida.

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


Significant Incidents or Threats:
Severe weather – Northeast
Critical and elevated fire weather – Central Great Basin to Plains
Red Flag Warnings – UT, CO, WY, NM, TX, OK, KS, NE and SD
Tropical Activity:
Atlantic: Invest 96L (Disturbance 1): High (80%)
Eastern Pacific: Potential Tropical Cyclone Seventeen-E: Low (20%) -
FINAL; Disturbance 1: Medium (40%)
Central Pacific: No new tropical cyclones are expected during the next five days
Western Pacific: No activity affecting U.S. interests
Declaration Activity:
Amendment No. 7 to FEMA-4429-DR-MS

Chicago teachers on strike

361,000 students set free

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1184841178006654976

Obion County TN fire scanner feed

https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/31449

unofficial official feed - official unofficial feed

live scanner audio - openness

this is the county that has/had the "pay to spray policy" - homeowners
in rural areas have to buy subscriptions for fire coverage

Wednesday, October 16, 2019

The Russians run Facebook - sorta - maybe

https://twitter.com/zerg90/status/1184643820253827073

approx 25 tweets here with info

The Midland Odessa shooter was mentally ill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midland%E2%80%93Odessa_shooting

info on the el paso shooter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_El_Paso_shooting

the shooter didnt like immigrants, automation engineers, democrats,
republicans, etc

the shooter didnt like anyone apparently

Update on Saddle Ridge brush fire

https://twitter.com/zerg90/status/1184561200857792516

still no answer to the question - 'how many homes destroyed?'

Los Angeles California

YahooGroups going away - sorta

https://forums.radioreference.com/threads/understand-whats-changing-in-yahoo-groups-beginning-oct-21-2019-info-permanently-removed-december-14-2019.395922/

not really sure what this means

I guess it means that everything will go away except the actual Emails

maybe because bots were filling up the FILES with porn and spam all day long

I never had any major problems with YahooGroups - but I have mostly
mirrored all of my YahooGroups posts on GoogleGroups

Harrison ME FD - live scanner audio feed

https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/31436

paged by county 911 center

worldwide list - emergency telephone numbers

https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/travel/advice/2019/10/16/911-around-world-find-emergency-numbers-70-countries/3980767002/

LA County has a brush fire in San Dimas

https://twitter.com/lacfd/status/1184514059049127937

structures threatened

1 photo

Massachusetts has moderate risk of earthquakes

https://twitter.com/MassEMA/status/1184510604528308224

some info about the 9/11 attacks

https://twitter.com/zerg90/status/1184510302358048773

wikipedia has a good article about the 9/11 attacks

Bin Ladin got the idea for the attacks in 1982

planning for the last war in disaster management

https://twitter.com/WCraigFugate/status/1184461448182927360

FBI waved fees on FOIA request

https://twitter.com/NatSecGeek/status/1184443541143130113

269,000 pages of info

FEMA Daily Ops Brief - red flags in UT & WY

per weather.gov -

Strong Coastal Storm to Impact Mid-Atlantic to New England through Thursday

A rapidly intensifying storm developing across the Mid-Atlantic will
move quickly into New England by Thursday. The storm will produce
heavy rainfall and localized flooding across these areas.
Additionally, strong winds may cause some tree damage and power
outages through Thursday. Elsewhere, elevated to critical fire weather
conditions are forecast across the Great Basin and Central Rockies.

weather.gov shows red flags in UT & WY at this time - 938 am edt

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


Significant Incidents or Threats:
•Red Flag Warnings UT and WY
Tropical Activity:
•Atlantic: Remnants of Fifteen FINAL ; Disturbance 1: Medium (50%)
•Eastern Pacific: Potential Tropical Cyclone Seventeen E ; Disturbance
1: Low 30%30%)
•Central Pacific: No new tropical cyclones are expected during the
next five days
•Western Pacific: No activity affecting U.S. interests
Declaration Activity:
None

Re: video about prelim ntsb report on B17 crash

from the ntsb prelim report

. The approach controller verified the request and asked if the pilot
required any assistance, to which he replied no.

(afaik this means that the airport FD was not alerted at this time)

video about prelim ntsb report on B17 crash

https://youtu.be/5YN4QAdji7Y - 10 minute video

note - comment at other video - B17s can fly on 1 engine

magnetos on engine 4 were misfiring due to wet / damp weather

plane hit approach light 1000 feet before runway - hit ground 500 feet
before runway - veered 1000 feet to run and hit deice bld

ATC Audio of B17 crash at Hartford CT

https://youtu.be/SCgP41iqUrI

did not declare an emergency

fire trucks were told to use any runways - that message was from the
tower I presume - on the ground freq I imagine

it all happened very quick

note - the B17 used 2 freqs - tower and approach/departure