one update - possibly the first alarm dispatch was 2 engines from
Ashland + 2 engines from fire district 5 + 1 engine from Medford FD +
2 State Forestry engines - for a total of 7 engines or brush trucks on
the first alarm
then 3 minutes later 1 Medford engine moved up to FPD 5 Sta 1
then 5 minutes later - 4 Medford FD units and 1 brush truck went to
the structure upgrade
and then 13 minutes later 5 more units were sent to the Port of Entry on I5 Nbnd
not sure if any off duty firefighters got activated in the first 30 or
45 minutes or not
On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 3:42 PM Peter Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> https://archive.org/details/or-ashland-alameda-drive-wildfire-broadcastify
>
> this is worth listening to - there is both police and fire radio channels
>
> first alarm was 3 brush trucks I think - from Ashland FD I think - a
> more or less normal brush fire call on a high fire danger day
>
> and immediately dispatchers get bombed with 911 calls of people trapped
>
> in the first 25 minutes they did not really seem to call very many
> extra units - maybe 1 more brush truck plus 2 state forestry (ODF)
> brush trucks plus 3 structural units
>
> air attack was mentioned at 1656 and 3045 on the tape - that might
> have been a big delay in establishing air to ground comms
>
> after you listen to this - check the latest news storys and see how
> many blds were destroyed in total
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