Tuesday, August 31, 2021

throw it away

https://archive.is/96mZB

just for fun

fawlty towers - another great british comedy

Looks like South Lake Tahoe is safe tonight

https://twitter.com/wildland_zko/status/1432877088738926595

but if the winds blow at 50 mph anytime in the next 2 or 3 weeks -
everything might change in a heartbeat - living in a tinderbox with
billions of glowing embers all around is not a good recipe

Jefferson Parish LA - update

910 pm edt - "if you have a tank of gas - get out" of town

sounds like they are thinking that power will not be restored for weeks

Grand Isle LA - 50% of homes gone

there are homes and camps there

they took the brunt of the storm

several people have said they have never seen damage like this before

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Isle,_Louisiana - population 1,200

Jefferson Parish LA - updates

https://wgno.com/news/watch-live-jefferson-parish-delivers-hurricane-ida-recovery-update/

856 pm edt - east bank fire chief speaking

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800 256 2522 - mental health help

fire sta 10 and sta 81 have oxygen - out of tanks for 2 hours now but
expect a delivery of tanks tomorrow

Jefferson Parish LA - shortage of ambulances - need more rigs to
transport bed ridden patients to Alexandria

dpw needs more gens and pumps for sewer lift stations

update from Jefferson Parish LA

https://wgno.com/news/watch-live-jefferson-parish-delivers-hurricane-ida-recovery-update/

Jefferson Parish are providing buses to Alexandria LA - also providing
~vans to get people to the buses

setting up 2 sites to distribute disaster supplies

handicap vans are just handling dialysis patients

Re: Kirkwood CA incident - maybe on Caldor Fire

re Caldor Fire - (Natl) 'guard 840' might be the medevac for kirkwood calif

also - lining up multi tankers for drops east of Kyburz CA also -
large column of smoke in the area

On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 7:26 PM Peteri Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
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> medevac helo going to Kirkwood CA - ETA 20 on medevac - not confirmed which medevac yet - Lead 15 also enroute - sounds like they had an injury incident - not sure why Lead 15 is responding - maybe it is directly fire related
>
> that is Alpine County iirc

Kirkwood CA incident - maybe on Caldor Fire

medevac helo going to Kirkwood CA - ETA 20 on medevac - not confirmed which medevac yet - Lead 15 also enroute - sounds like they had an injury incident - not sure why Lead 15 is responding - maybe it is directly fire related

that is Alpine County iirc

lookner at 540 pm edt

lookner spraining his brain trying to explain why usfs is lighting
fires right next to homes

wind is blowing away from homes but main fire is coming towards homes

yes - that seems to be ironical - doesnt it?

caldor fire - south lake tahoe

no homes lost yet - awesome

Re: [Public Safety USA Blog] Katrina - Army Corps of Engineers caused the problems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_levee_failures_in_Greater_New_Orleans

no mention of corruption here

just incompetence

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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina#Analysis_of_New_Orleans_levee_failures
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> they built 10 foot levee walls instead of 30 foot walls - saved $100 million
>
> (there must be a different article at Wikipedia that talks about
> corruption - I read it the other day)
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Katrina - Army Corps of Engineers caused the problems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina#Analysis_of_New_Orleans_levee_failures

they built 10 foot levee walls instead of 30 foot walls - saved $100 million

(there must be a different article at Wikipedia that talks about
corruption - I read it the other day)

south lake tahoe - 4 live cams in 1 shot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akL3r--_Q0Q

looks kinda dead there now - wind does not seem to be blowing

caldor fire

lookner has scanner on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzu6Vvy2B2U

multi people in chat yelling at him to turn down staticy scanner - 5
messages were immediately deleted - but lookner turned it down and
said it was staticy today

to me the scanner has been 80% static over last 5 minutes - pretty bad

he is gonna drive his audience away

lookner says that south lake tahoe is in big trouble

info on lowband use in Illinois

https://forums.radioreference.com/threads/illinois-low-band-use.430349/

hardly anyone on lowband anymore

state prisons on 37 mhz

there might be a few dpws still on 45 mhz I suppose

kankakee county fire used to be on 33.74

there is a bit of historical info in this thread about state police
and tollway radio systems

Re: live dashcam from tv station - new orleans area

they are in the westwego / harvey area - maybe 7 air miles SW of
downtown - damage is light - just a few leaning utility poles - all
the traffic signals are totally dead

response time - F15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYIBX2n9TPs

there are breaks in the video

some info in comments

in tense times - pilots would sit in cockpit and await the alert

Narragansett FD RI - new radio license

https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/license.jsp?licKey=4491619

why would a FD in small state with a modern statewide 800 Mhz TRS find
the need to license two conventional 800 mhz repeaters locally?

is that the same old story? someone starts using a TRS and finds out
that the coverage is actually el crappo?

re - new orleans live press conference

148 pm edt - police chief says we are all on the same radio system -
if you see looters or need help - flag down any national guard or
public safety unit

150 pm edt - reporter asks about cooling centers - "it is very hot
today" - 200,000 people remain in the city - for many it was a choice
- mayor says "we do not think that a evacuation will be necessary" -
"dont want to give any specifics now" on cooling centers or evac
centers - 'info that I have now does not look like a major evacuation
will be needed' per mayor

155 pm edt - police chief was asked about looters - "we do not have
the assets" right now (in a low voice) - but we are dealing with
looters

mayor says - "new orl e ans" - 156 pm edt and "new OR lens"

news reader says "new OR lens" also

Re: New Orleans evac not necessary - maybe

136 pm edt live - New Orleans sewers might back up - no power for 60
sewer pump stations

Re: New Orleans evac not necessary - maybe

125 pm edt - now is not the time to return home - please stay out of
streets - PD on 12 hour shifts - no trouble keeping track of cops -
have received numerous calls for lotting - have made several arrests -
we are all at risk now

126 pm edt - 911 system is not operable - selective routing system has
suffered significant damage - ATT is working on repairs - all fire
stations have open bay doors - or flag down a police officer - will be
retooling how you can send texts to 911

129 pm edt - 8 electrical transmission lines feed New Orleans - 2,000
miles of Entergy transmission lines are down - have 4,500 electrical
workers doing damage assessments - premature to speculate when power
will be restored - 21,000 more electrical workers (enroute) -
generation system + transmission system + distribution system being
evaluated

New Orleans evac not necessary - maybe

111 pm edt - live - New Orleans mayor says major evacuation not
probably necessary

text messages mentioned by mayor

asking businesses to share power with neighbors

blah blah blah

"we have proven our ability to be prepared"

"911 remains out of service" - 116 pm edt - per city oem head - "many
destroyed structures" - send your pictures of damage to damage.la.gov
- "hospitals are strained right now" - "transitioning into situational
awareness" - wtf? - opening an oxygen exchange - 8am to 8 pm - fire
sta 1 and 36 and 40 - call 'special needs registry' if need oxygen
delivered at 504/658-2558 - donate money - "still in response mode"

121 pm edt - we are doing better than after Katrina - debris is
everywhere and is blocking drainage system in some areas

part 1

segment from coupling

"Contains adult humour"

3 minute clip

https://youtu.be/oAS-DIt7ZaY

just for fun

show was soooo funny

traffic reporter has meltdown

https://youtu.be/lD1ctAtkZhw

lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

"go to a truck stop and rent a CB"

crist can be sooo funny - wish him the best

good boogie woogie

https://youtu.be/VjGwPnz3Xvk

little girl and asian guy dance

in a shopping mall

3 minutes

just for fun

New Orleans - big trouble

sounds like power will be out for weeks in New Orleans - they lost a
major power line tower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDhRFKNprKE

https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/

https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/

first item - Milan highrise fire

"Control - we will need a 2nd pumper on this call"

Port Fourchon supplies 18% of US oil supply

http://portfourchon.com/wp-content/uploads/2021-V5-State-of-the-Port-GLPC-Newsletter.pdf

pg 7 of 8 - supply 18% of US oil supply

and they just got hit by 150 mph hurricane ida

and in 2020 they took direct hit from hurricane zeta

and they will probably spend billions again to rebuild - again - and
clean out the solt due to siltation - whatever that is

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correct me if I am wrong - 50% of new orleans area is below sea level

at some point someone has to move all this water to california -
because louisiana has too much - and california does not have enough

Port Fourchon LA - fire sta

https://goo.gl/maps/CwfKRmA7nPrbfeRW9

2012 view

1. bet that station is no longer there

2. after hurricane ida hit today with 150 mph winds - doubly bet that
station is gone

you can go to satellite view and see many petro tanks in the area

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https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1xtE6A7g_JrQDc-UxK2kDy5C9fr0&usp=sharing

Lafourche Parish fire station map

between the hurricanes and confusing station and FD names - I will
just give up on accurately plotting their fire stations

Rottweiler causing a baby laugh attack

https://youtu.be/m8Jh49-3shg

1 minute video - great

5 years later - dog has passed away at 12 years old

that child will never be afraid of dogs

FDNY rams parked cars in Bronx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKb8SxiV_TA

seems odd - did that guy get rammed? - why didnt he move his car? -
maybe because he was trying to make rescues

New Orleans live cam - Bourbon Street

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ziciboPx7w

very few people around

no flooding at this time

hydrant has not blown away yet

12,000 viewers

wind rustling pretty good now

all the windows are boarded up

camera can pan

Paul Benzaquin at Wikipedia

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

I knew he wrote a book about the Coconut Grove Fire in Boston that
killed approx 500 people around 1944

old time boston radio names

carl ? desusse ?

paul benzaquin

jess cain

jerry williams

david brudnoy

dapper o'neil - boston city councilor

hopefully they are all listed at wikipedia

Illinois 2020 - 3,000 opioid overdose deaths

https://chicagoareafire.com/blog/2021/07/

state spending $13M to buy naloxone

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also - old Parker arizona engine in chicago

ride along video circa 1994 fdny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOEUhLkHgUs

rescue via ground ladder

dispatcher warren fuchs - radio traffic - view of mdt

seeking Captain M Rogers

napier daltic motors

https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/51408-napier-deltic/

powered the FDNY super pumper

have a listen to the train video

very few videos of super pumper in operation

fdny super pumper had 600 foot reach

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/12/in-april-of-1963-massive-fire-taxed-nyc.html

8000 to 10,000 GPM pump - 8000 at 250 pis iirc - maybe 10,000 at 150
psi 'net pump pressure' (which is what regular fire trucks are rated
at)

net pump pressure = output pressure minus input pressure

there must be video of a 8000 gpm deck nozzle working on some fire -
maybe a fireboat video

fdny super pumper working - search at yt

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=fdny+super+pumper+working

might be 1 video that shows it in operation

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also see - whiting indiana industrial fire boom - 5 years ago

Buffalo NY - the water - it does nothing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dSH854HtSo&list=PLX8m3nZlqhEjzQvWIaVuPzZs4LktR6JnZ

putting the wet stuff on the red stuff - not that it makes any
difference - neither the deck gun nor the blitz gun did anything to
the fire - interesting

finally they get the water thru the window

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4gBRulvJgY&list=PLb0BjLEuJ_M7MU5Kh6aUXHnTWupgNpulG&index=11

fire attack - putting the wet stuff on the red stuff - fire
suppression - fireground - fire ground - fire extinguishment

deck gun waters the lawn again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yNd_D32_3g&list=PLb0BjLEuJ_M7MU5Kh6aUXHnTWupgNpulG&index=3

delavan wi fd

not exactly watering the lawn but spraying water everywhere but where
it was needed

you start at the bottom and work your way up - makes perfect sense -
but no one is really well trained to use deck guns - and they are
rarely used

fire attack - putting the wet stuff on the red stuff

Hurricane Ida will strike Louisiana today

https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/549 - 171 listening at 1013 am edt

NOFD will do weather report every hour on the hour - 10 am edt - winds
gusting to 50 at some airport

calls going out as normal at 1014 am edt - Squad 7 sent to EMS call

1015 am edt - Engine 16 are you onscene or in the area? - Engine 4 are
you enroute ? "10-4" is the reply

Cat 4 Hurricane - expected damage

https://www.nola.com/news/hurricane/article_2491bc82-081f-11ec-88fb-7b39be0fddea.html

Well-built homes can sustain severe damage with the loss of most of
the roof structure and/or some exterior walls.

Chicago FD has 8,000 GPM nozzle truck

https://youtu.be/sGnijuc9JZ4

was used to fight fire on 17th floor of a highrise

Chicago Fire Dept. - Little John, Big John and Big Moe

Chicago used volunteer firefighters to staff special equipment /
reserve firefighters / auxiliary firefighters - 1960s 1970s

slo pager list - unknown age

https://wiki.radioreference.com/images/9/97/CalFire_SLU_Alert_Tones.pdf

includes volunteer pages and nuke plant etc

san luis obispo county

154.385

couple of cdf extra pagers also

some vols have 2 pager codes

MACS ID list - unknown age

http://nbimt.org/documents/resource_guides/MACS-ID-Agency-List.pdf

xal has some interesting listings - 1 nuke - 2 subway - etc

no sand canyon fd

california - includes operational area / county cross reference info

butte county ca - alert tones

https://wiki.radioreference.com/images/3/31/CalFire_BTU_Alert_Tones.pdf

very good info - spells out which volunteer companies staff which stations - etc

unknown date

listed under cdf in rr wiki

this county has ALWAYS been a bear to figure out

after recent major fires - possibly some fire stations have burnt down
- 2018 2019 2017 2020 2021 ish

Saturday, August 28, 2021

re New Orleans - airport info

Lakefront Airport serves as medical evacuation point but needs approx
$300M in more flood protection funds

airport always floods during hurricanes

during Katrina they flew out 2,000 people but could have flown out
many more but they had to allow the runways to flood as part of the
city flood protection plan

re - st bernard parish LA

county councilor recommends that everyone leave mobile homes - saw bad
damage in mobile homes last year from Theta with same or less winds

this will be a bad storm for SE Louisiana - think very seriously about
your choice - you probably will face power loss for 7 to 10 days

there will be no evac shelters in the parish during the storm

everyone needs to get inside the levy system

many have not left yet

only pump stations are operational - might not be able to keep up with
heavy rainfall

stay off roads tonight

traffic flows on the interstates have lightened up recently - now
might be a good time to leave

st bernard parish press conference 708 pm edt live

fire sta 11 and 12 will close at 8 pm - rigs will move to station 10

let generator cool for 15 minutes before refueling

dont fill gas containers unless they are sitting on the ground - dont
fill gasoline containers in car trunks or pickup beds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D7pQxnOIjI

Rickles tears Carson apart

https://youtu.be/AQwL3paGe2c - 5 minutes

just for fun

dont think he was supposed to mention Utah

Korea fire video - 1 million views since April 2021

https://youtu.be/E7rRm5MQMiI

response video

helmet cam on first due officer responding in a pumper

gives his radio report on arrival - fire showing from small warehouse
50 by 50 feet

he threw mike back in cab - I saw that - lol

Dixie Fire - red flag coming up

red flag coming up on Monday and Tuesday on the Caldor Fire in Plumas
County in California

fire is spreading to south now - maybe near Genessee

552 pm edt - aviation unit reports a trailer catching on fire just
east of staging area

553 pm edt - aviation unit reporting spot fires in drainage - some
across the creek

554 pm edt - helco ordering a 2nd ty1 helo for 1 section of the fire -
maybe section 33

fire call - somewhere in Malaysia or Indonesia

https://youtu.be/FtcagPpGOLo?t=981

the chief on the right

girl on left might be an EMS volunteer or maybe doctor

5 minutes before this in the video they have a woman down at the scene
- maybe stress related

everyone has a HT or cellphone

took them a while to reach this fire - they went way up a side street
but it apparently was the wrong one

the light rescue truck as a 2 man cab with a scba in between the seats
- bunch of tools in the lockers

Plan for New Orleans

https://twitter.com/timcraigpost/status/1431676518632153089

seems like a non-plan

New Orleans Mayor Cantrell said city now focused on its "post storm"
response. Residents who do not or cannot evacuate should "hunker down"
at home. After storm passes, buses will be prepositioned to evacuate
residents out of city, if severe damage/health threats

ambulances from Tokyo hospital

https://twitter.com/tmdu_er/status/1431422720852389892

this might be new

never heard of a hospital ambulance in Tokyo before - had heard of
doctors cars and doctors helos

Indiantown FL signs new contract with Martin County FD

https://www.wflx.com/2021/08/24/indiantown-martin-county-sign-new-fire-contract/

will continue to pay $5.3 M per year for FD coverage - for 5 years

County will begin to provide quarterly reports on staffing and response times

Indiantown had considered starting their own VFD

New Orleans FD - radio procedures

New Orleans FD - radio procedures

listening via Broadcastify feed

every call is announced and/or dispatched via radio

the format is :

tone (1 or 2 seconds)

unit(s) assigned - type call - address - cross street - zone - FG channel

repeated a 2nd time

then unit will acknowledge verbally via the dispatch channel - "Squad
7 has it" or similar short phrase

the Zone is analogous to 'nearest box' in Boston and 'box' in NYC and
'box area' in Wash DC area

506 is a Chief

"25 Operator" is the pump operator on Engine 25 - maybe

"Engine 17" is the officer on Eng 17

Squad 7 sent to EMS call at 1225 PM

time out given at end of some dispatches

have only been listening for 1 hour - might be wrong on some of the details

"building fire" at 1142 am or 1042 am edt got - 3 engines + Squad 7 +
Ladder 8 + Rescue 2 + 506 + 502 - Zone 6044 - FG6

ems calls get 1 unit - as do residential fire alarms

info from New Orleans FD scanner feed

The following channels are included in this feed: Dispatch, FG2
(Central Business Dist, French Quarter, Lower Garden District), FG3
(Upper & Lower 9th Ward), FG4 (East New Orleans), FG5 (Lakeview & Mid
City), FG6 (Uptown Garden Dist.), FG8 (Algiers), FG9 (Single Company
Roll), FG10 (Single Company Roll), Haz-Mat. Motorola APCO 25 Digitial
700 Mhz/800 Mhz System. Due to scanner location in relation to the
transmitter towers, and the nature of digitial systems, the audio may
sound garbled or chopped up from time to time. Dispatchers also using
different headsets & some have lower audio output than others, so some
dispatchers will sound low & far away. It's a function of the headsets
& not the feed.

my post to Louisiana forum at Broadcastify

https://forums.radioreference.com/threads/hurricane-ida-lousiana.430974/

https://content.govdelivery.com/att...918634/FEMA Daily Ops Briefing
08-28-2021.pdf

FEMA Daily Ops Brief - catastrophic flooding predicted for all of New
Orleans area

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Hurricane Ida is predicted to hit Louisiana as a Category 4 hurricane
with sustained winds over 130 MPH

storm intensified too quickly to do a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans

Mississippi is also threatened - evacuees from Louisiana are being
advised to not evacuate to Jackson MS

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Louisiana Live Audio Feeds

Broadcastify shows 148 feeds from Louisiana - only 3 are offline at this point

Louisiana fire stations gonna get wrecked again?

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/100304.shtml?cone#contents

just as it comes ashore - sustained winds above 130 MPH - (maybe gusts
to 150 MPH)

taking a wild guess here - every fire station that was rebuilt after
Katrina is gonna get wrecked again - even if built to withstand a Cat
5 (which I think many were)

Info on Katrina 2005 vs New Orleans

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

corruption caused the levees to fail in Katrina in 2005 - 1,464 died -
"Later studies determined that most of New Orleans' Katrina dead were
elderly persons living near levee breaches in the Lower Ninth Ward &
Lakeview neighborhoods."

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lets hope the levees have been totally repaired since 2005

New Orleans today - an overview

looking at the various twitter feeds from New Orleans - things look
dire - a good question for the media to ask today would be - "how many
people do you expect to die?"

anybody remember Katrina? - the levees failed - the feds promised to
send helos with sand - no sand ever came

Hurricane Ida developed too fast

https://twitter.com/jwilliamsNOLA/status/1431385790437863426

not enough time to evacuate New Orleans

sounds like quite the disaster is gonna happen

I am guessing that today will be the day that every bus and ambulance
and fire truck and cop car will get used to move everyone out of New
Orleans - and maybe Baton Rouge also - gonna be a huge exodus - lets
hope they get contraflow up and running

New Orleans - hit the road jack

https://twitter.com/NWSNewOrleans/status/1431554418210742274

NWS advises everyone to leave - Category 4 Hurricane Ida will hit tomorrow

Category 5 are the worst hurricanes - so you might say that Ida will
be 80% of the worst hurricane

we tweeted a map earlier that basically tells everyone in Louisiana to
leave - head to adjacent states such as Texas or maybe Alabama -
Mississippi is out also iirc - gonna be a huge area that gets battered

Friday, August 27, 2021

CalFire facilities list

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1z6BqLXJyeWAExfCTfFRfFBvgjLy8MidjX9uR2uXJLKY/edit?usp=sharing

maybe 2021 or 2019

spreadsheet of calfire stations

cal fire stations

cdf fire stations

cdf fire facilities

cal fire facilities

calfire facilities

astra rocket just aborted at T minus zero

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvGiEtPxS0E

I heard a loud fart

mission controller said that rocket started to fire but immediately aborted

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now

scrubbing for today - it was a misfire - will try again tomorrow

launch window continues to sept 11

maybe at vandenburg afb

8 minutes till Lookner comes on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeTSa8O1i2I

Hurricane Ida update

someone in chat already said this could be as bad as Katrina

MN chase on RR tracks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeBGgM0jMXM

When I was 6 or 7 years old, my Mom dated a Texas Ranger for a while.
He always had a gun on his hip - can't recall if it was a .357 or .44
magnum. His story was that the gun would disable a car engine during a
chase. No idea if that's true - he was a Texan, after all, and they do
love their tall tales - ha! I just couldn't help but think of that
during this video and consider he would've had a blast (pun!)
disabling that truck.

When I was a kid, it was a regular practice for the state police to
shoot out a radiator to stop a chase. The engine would seize up pretty
quickly.

in mud pit also

Re: the dash and p and 0 keys just started to work !!!

on the other hand - all of those keys are adjacent on the keyboard

never mind - lol

by the way - LOTS of other stuff going on also - middle of night - 5
am - walking to store - etc etc etc - I will get to bottom of it
sooner or later - it just takes time

remember - "The Greatest Vendetta" - heck of a story

the dash and p and 0 keys just started to work !!!

1128 am - the dash and p and 0 just started to work on my computer

I knew I heard a guy yelling - lots of construction work around here
today as usual - lots of banging and scraping and drilling as they
repoint the bld and install new windows - I think they are 90%
complete

approx 15 minutes ago I heard a clunk and a loud yell off in the
distance - then I could swear I could barely hear some guy ranting and
raving - I thought a worker had nearly cut off another workers leg or
something - but no action on 460.60

the guy yelled for about 10 minutes - I noticed the yelling stopped -
then my keys started to work again

years ago - I always had to retype 'hospital' on my keyboard - that
was maybe 2000 to 2010 - then a certain guy moved out or died - in
fact there were 2 of them - on 12th flr and 14th flr - then 'hospital'
was OK but some other word was problematic iirc

bottom line - I have no control over where the electrons go when they
leave my computer - either via Net chord or wifi

Dear Chekists - fuck you

SW Colorado TIC

https://montezumacounty.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/SWRCC_TIC_v.7-FINAL-PDF.pdf

tactical interoperable communications plan for multi county area

57 ages some freqs listed

169 mhz freq might be bia

461 mhz b might be british petroleum

Weymouth Mass water main break

Canton FD has a tanker truck in Weymouth

info from twitter

Boston FD Ladders a short course

https://thefireacademy.com/courses/a_brief_history_of_bostons_ladders/

Donovan gives this history lesson on the Boston (MA) Fire Department,
going back through the centuries to look at the city's landscape and
how the BFD made its tactical considerations.

WA Rampage Leaves 4 Dead, 3 Homes Burned

https://www.firehouse.com/operations-training/news/21235910/wa-rampage-leaves-4-dead-3-homes-burned

A gunman who died in a fiery police shootout in West Richland is
believed to have killed three people, including his parents, and set
fire to multiple structures.

Camp Incident CA-BTU-016737 INCIDENT ACTION PLAN

https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/2019/08/08/iap_camp_11_10_corrected.pdf

Camp Incident CA-BTU-016737 INCIDENT ACTION PLAN

OPERATIONAL PERIOD 11/10/2018 0700 to �11/11/2018 0700

covid death rates by country

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

Tanzania best ........ only zero oint 8 deaths / million .........
nation number 2 zero 8 on list (2 hundred and 8

worst is country I cant sell ....... ends in eru ......... 5,912
deaths / million .......... number 1 on list

usa is number 19 worst on list ....... UK is number twenty

worst hit countries seem to be the same as WW2 worst hit countries and
eru / argentina / columbia / paraguay / chile

cdc screening failed

https://systems.jhu.edu/research/public-health/ncov/

In the U.S., the CDC began entry screening of passengers on direct and
connecting flights from Wuhan to the three main ports of entry on
January 17, 2020

please disregard previous mab

please disregard previous ma it was old

now sell checker fails google all messed u

it worked once and then failed

covid death rates by country

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/World_map_of_total_confirmed_COVID-19_deaths_per_million_people_by_country.png

eyeballing it

highest in white and hispanic countries

lowest in black and asian countries

new zealand and australia are outlyers

electric grid attacks schemed

https://twitter.com/brooklynmarie/status/1430711679063445509

now mnoXXX key wont work at all

the keys are going away 1 by 1

must be a cascading failure

light dawned on marble head yesterday

light dawned on marble head here yesterday

1. navarro told trumPf that 1M to 2M would die

2. trumPf told Putin

3. Putin told trumPf he could get a 2nd term if he let 2M die (Putin
hates Paying for old geezers)

4.trumf jumPed at the chance

5. caPital P works but small P does not

the prince variant ????

zero and dash keys not working this morning on keyboard seems to
happen every morning recently

actually random letters work on and off maybe my computer caught the
Prince variant

p key only works if I hit it 3 times and then wait

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

airtanker dropping cardboard boxes of retardant

https://twitter.com/saintindustries/status/1430717129305714688

is it really easy to load into a C130? - just one push and its in? -
that would make for some quick reloads

2054 pm edt weird drop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXzHIYckudU

tanker 02 dropped retardant very high diagonally across flame front -
did he have to jump over power lines at last second? didnt see any
lead plane

re lytle creek fire

gonna guess that smoldering house is a goner unless they can get 3
engines in there quick - and even then - awful lot of smoke coming out
of that place

ktla live stream - fire spotting across road now

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/crews-battle-brush-fire-in-the-fontana-area/

fontana - maybe structures burning

in san bernardino county california

suburban area

1 motel got pinked already

Calif OES has deployed 400 engines

https://twitter.com/Cal_OES/status/1430640779635040258

not sure on the actual numbers

the program works this way - OES gives a pumper to a local FD - the
local FD promises to staff the pumper with 4 firefighters and send
them anywhere in the state when requested by OES - otherwise the FD
can use the pumper as a reserve or secondary pumper for their local
needs - OES pays the salaries of the firefighters when they are on OES
duty

the large fires in California typically see responses from local
government engines plus CalFire engines + federal engines + OES
engines

OES has 2 statewide radio channels for OES engines - 154.22 R and 154.16 R

John Cleese talks about creativity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb5oIIPO62g

kinda old - from 1991

30 minutes

might be good

there are other videos linked here about management etc

re lincoln nebraska

https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/18959

maybe this is real feed

"Engine 5 Officer"

"Interior"

yup - this seems to be it - someone in mask - using thermal camera to scan roof

Re: [Public Safety USA Blog] Lincoln Nebraska has 2nd alarm

might be a 20 minute delay on that scanner feed

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> https://www.broadcastify.com/webPlayer/23275
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> not hearing anything on scanner feed though
>
> ??????
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update on TN flooding

▪ AT&T services in Waverly restored; Houston County 911 center taking
calls over normal circuits

per fema daily update

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try to never get in a situation where you have to call 911 to save your life

911 only saves lives on TV and in the movies

dont believe me? just ask them

Re: [Public Safety USA Blog] NYC - 6yo killed by car

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-child-pedestrian-struck-killed-brooklyn-20210825-nf6g5fxqwrcb3jorusmm7f5wxi-story.html

blood coming from chest

?????

maybe a crushing injury to chest ? or some sort of penetrating trauma?

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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCqGPKw6iwc
>
> was in crosswalk - mom was holding her hand - adam just finished
> filming the scene
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nyc subway incident

https://youtu.be/MCqGPKw6iwc

at 108 on tape go to subway incident - minor injury apparently - E21
arrives first then ladder then 2 ambulances then Rescue 1

Tuesday, August 24, 2021

NYC - 6yo killed by car

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCqGPKw6iwc

was in crosswalk - mom was holding her hand - adam just finished
filming the scene

monday.com

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Re: Cambridge Mass - pre arrival video

correction - not sure which bld is social security - when he pans
right - that might be a brand new 6 story bld there

Cambridge Mass - pre arrival video

https://twitter.com/thehappybhati/status/1430315690716811266

10 second clip

that is a very busy roadway there - the social security office is that
red brick bld on the right

Cambridge Mass - 3rd alarm box 91

Somerville Eng 6 to fire

Watertown Eng 1 to fire

Brookline E1 to Sta 2

Boston E51 to Sta 1

Waltham L2 to Sta 1

Re: 153.83 in southern California

searching the FCC ULS yields more licenses

KB8273 - Orange County - 500 M (mobiles) X 100 W / 100 W ERP - 6/2002
"first use"

KC5485 - Oxnard City - (in Ventura County) - 2000 M X 100/200 - 6/1998
- 40 KM radius of operations

KM5922 - Burbank - (in Los Angeles County) - 60 M X 5W - 12/1979 -
area of operation is Burbank only

KMF662 - Arcadia - (in Los Angeles County) - 150 M X 10/10 - 4/1983 -
Arcadia only

KK4683 - Ontario - (in San Bernardino County) - expired

KC6529 - Tulare County - 500 M X 50/100 - 7/2008 - countywide

KUS558 - Hemet - (in Riverside County) - 75 M X 60/60 - 6/2000 - 32 KM radius

WPLZ906 - Monterey Park (in Los Angeles County) - 110 M X 50/30 -
4/1998 - 25 KM radius

KA7957 - Kern County - 3 M X 10 W - 4/1978

KB68003 - Glendale - (in Los Angeles County) - 110 M X 5/5 - 10/1984

KC5112 - California, State of - 9000 M X 120/120 - 11/1982 - statewide
area of ops

pictures from cambridge 2nd alarm

https://twitter.com/857FirePhotos/status/1430313765376077827

prime real estate - they could put in a 10 story bld there I bet - 1/4
mile from Alewife T and Fresh Pond Plaza

billy dunn at radio reference

ecps92 - you all know who he is - right?

video of TN flood aftermath

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAhL91FRnAk

drone video - 3 minutes - railroad line being repaired

approx 20 dead and 20 missing

apparently debris got jammed behind a RR bridge and then let go

153.83 in southern California

153.83 is sorta the USA FD primary FG channel - FCC only allowed 10
watts on the channel up to ? 1990 ?

searching https://www.la-ticp.com/2020vhf for 153.83 yields

PL 100.0 - Santa Barbara County Tac 12

PL 123.0 - MTO Tac 3 - Montecito FD in Santa Barbara County

PL 131.8 - Long Beach V6 Direct - in Los Angeles County

PL 146.2 - Murrieta FD Tac - mobiles TX PL 146.2

PL 151.4 - Los Angeles County V6 Direct

PL 167.9 - Ventura County Tac 9

PL 167.9 - San Bernardino County V15

apparently not used in San Diego County - maybe someone in Mexico uses it

Franklin County Mass - new scanner feed

https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/36188

just the fg / command channels

mostly a rural county

feed via sdr which is monitoring the state trs

caldor fire or dixie fire update last night

they were talking about brands traveling a couple of miles and
starting spot fires in front of the flame front

so its a real thing - and in mountainous terrain in the middle of the
night - probably not easy to suppress - WITHOUT DRONES

hey hey hey - there an idea - autonomous drones carrying 20 gallons of
water or retardant - would have digital map of terrain - could use
flir to find spor fires

oh yeah oh yeah ooooohhhh yeeeaahhhhh

June 2020 Unit Identifier Guide by NIFC

https://gacc.nifc.gov/swcc/dispatch_logistics/dispatch/documents/National_Unit_Identifiers.pdf

400 pages

all of the agencies that are tied into the federal wildfire system

I dont see the Curry FD in Yosemite listed - maybe they are not
available outside of YNP no how no way

keywords - list of federal wildfire agencies - directory of usfs -
directory of forest fire departments - list of wildfire agencies -
list of fire departments - list of fire agencies

San Diego County - CalFire Local 2

https://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?aid=1008

per recent comment in the RR forums - Local 2 is the de facto command
channel for CalFire wildland responses

so that channel should be pretty busy in the fall and winter and
spring and summer

Monday, August 23, 2021

Re: [Public Safety USA Blog] re caldor fire or dixie fire

https://twitter.com/DanielFireTruck/status/1430003037720879104

Night Certified Coulson Aviation Helicopters are now Working, Copters,
47, 55, 76, HTK 349.

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> chinook helo did water drops last night - extremely rare - per kathyrn
> davidson at 1102 pm edt ish via
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re caldor fire or dixie fire

chinook helo did water drops last night - extremely rare - per kathyrn
davidson at 1102 pm edt ish via
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-4RydmNr8k

6 minute report on Caldor Fire from KCRA

https://youtu.be/SlGVfoUJ_xc

absolutely no mention of the 345 homes that have burnt in the fire so
far - weird

winds for next couple days will be the same - 5 mph morning - 15 mph
midday - upslope (to east) then downslope (to west)

New Zealand in lockdown

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/24/new-zealand-braces-for-biggest-covid-outbreak-of-pandemic

gonna guess that all the current cases came from Kremlin

since the pandemic began approx 20 months ago - New Zealand has
recorded only 26 deaths due to covid

total insanity in Houston

https://twitter.com/zachdespart/status/1429545441478254601

ambulances waiting 2 hours to deliver patients at hospitals

where are the field hospitals, hospital ships, US Public Health Service ???????

https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/index.html

video 1969 chicago fd

https://youtu.be/yLsdLOA42AE

many of those rigs seem to be from the 1940s

cadillac ambulance seen a couple of times

fireboat

wooden ground ladder raised

QVEC in CT - new channel list

https://forums.radioreference.com/threads/qvec.429837/

it looks like they have 2 primary synchronized simulcast channels -
and then a couple of appendage "simulcast" channels (Plainfield and
Colchester) - I think the appendage channels are in outlying areas and
are patched fulltime to the 2 primary channels

Boston Center ATC channels

https://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?aid=2248

all channels at Melrose Mass are labeled as "spare" now - explains why
I never seem to hear anything on those channels

line of yellow and red through Connecticut

big line of yellow and red spiraling up from connecticut - pivot point
is at great barrington mass - so maybe all of southern worcester
county will get hit in 1 hour - plus whatever pops up in the meantime
in the boston area

Mass - keep eyes peeled

https://twitter.com/TerryWBZ/status/1429845084384731139

tornado could pop up anywhere in Mass today

does NWS have extra staff on duty or nah?

re Hudson Mass

that storm blew up over Marlboro but then shrunk over Hudson - it is Nbnd

( storms seem to be popping up randomly across Mass )

FEMA vs Hurricane Henri - per - https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/USDHSFEMA/2021/08/23/file_attachments/1912991/FEMA%20Daily%20Ops%20Briefing%2008-23-2021.pdf

FEMA HQ

o NWC at Enhanced Watch, night shift only

o NRCC at Level II, day shift only with all NRCS, all LNOs and ESFs 1,
2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, and 15

o National IMAT Blue on Alert

o Region VII IMAT deployed to CT

o Region V IMAT deployed to MA

MERS

o 3 MCOVs to NY, 1 MCOV to NJ

▪ Logistics:

o Staging Management Team (SMT) Atlanta deployed to Westover Air
Reserve Base, MA

o Incident Support Base (ISB) teams deployed to Westover, MA and
Republic Airport, NY

o Charlie pack (60k meals, 90k liters water, 2100 cots, 4500 blankets,
5 infant/toddler kits) en route to Region II

o Region I: 116,736 meals, 291,780 water, 3,009 tarps staged at
Westover AFB; 116,736 meals, 113,244 water, 1,091 tarps staged at
Joint Base Cape Cod

o 30 pack generators staged at Westover AFB; additional generator pack enroute

Regional Fire Training Center - Bethel AK

https://goo.gl/maps/rAHEjpnjdzuNWfFT9

seems to be 1 small bld next to church

they must have to fly or boat everyone in

Fire Station Road - Quinhagak, AK 99655

https://goo.gl/maps/jr3M4erTEtybUQvP6

nothing obvious in sat view

have airport and maybe 50 blds there

I wonder if the FCC ULS has any info for this village?

Re: [Public Safety USA Blog] Bethel Alaska just got dispatched to EMS call

https://goo.gl/maps/tAAiUteyZ5jhYw4Q7 - 2 pictures of fire sta - plus
sat view - 4 bay

Medic 5 went 10-8 in 3 minutes

arrived in 1 minute maybe

just went enroute to hospital with 1 patient at 921 am edt

Bethel Alaska just got dispatched to EMS call

https://www.broadcastify.com/webPlayer/36157

dispatcher to ?fire station ? - gave the rundown - elderly male - pain down leg

850 am edt - must be middle of night there - amb crew answered
immediately when dispatcher called

Louisiana in trouble

Louisiana's governor is making an urgent plea for more people in his
state to get vaccinated as the number of deaths there have climbed
more than 300% this summer.

per cbs

nov 6 2020 - huge spike in covid cases

https://twitter.com/CBSThisMorning/status/1429768614471770118

00:30 on this tape - graph of daily covid cases usa - huge spike
started nov 6 2020 - big dive in feb 2021

note - us election - nov 6 2020 - vaccine announced nov 7ish 2020

sure looks like election had super spreader events

note - trumpf got vaccine in secret in jan 2021

Sunday, August 22, 2021

Dover NH - mobile home fire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALB4h7IaOMw

pre arrival video

quint went right to work - 2nd due engine laid LDH from hydrant

ambulance crew had to gear up at scene

initial attack

Calif - French Fire - flare up

6 air tankers heading back to the fire

per twitter 852 pm edt

backwards red on radar now - berkshire county mass

https://whdh.com/weather/

lots of red in berkshire county now but it is heading to west - in
fact it might be getting blocked by the hills - which probably could
do some serious flooding

Re: NY fire truck parade 2021 Port Jervis

https://youtu.be/JJOmyiuBtEY?t=3853

1.04.13 - old springdale snorkel on ford chassis

that wasnt sanford maine was it? the springdale station in sanford had
a snorkel iirc - way way back

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> 34:05 - 4 wheel steer mini brush tanker - or something

Re: NY fire truck parade 2021 Port Jervis

34:05 - 4 wheel steer mini brush tanker - or something

NY fire truck parade 2021 Port Jervis

https://youtu.be/JJOmyiuBtEY?t=784

right here - big pumper tanker with compartment doors all open

4:00 - vendor with flag with machine gun - come and take it

Frankenmuth Michigan fire truck parade

https://youtu.be/7eFobevozj0

7 minutes - July 2021

lots of older rigs and nice antiques - 2 Caddy ambulances - 4:55 Squad
51's brother

where did all the antiques come from? they must be trucked into town
by collectors

York Maine fire truck parade Aug 2021

https://youtu.be/7DD3Gllud6E

9 minute video

this could have been a nice mutual aid radio drill - at the least
check every mobile to make sure they have 154.31

who was 86M4 ?

York + York Beach + Kittery + Rollingsford NH + Alfred + Kennebunkport
+ hand drawn pumper + some antiques and neat cars etc

Japan - video - kids in crosswalk bow

https://youtu.be/jUv9OXSJO30

dont know what the law is in Japan

but in Massachusetts iirc the driver has to stop if the pedestrian is
in crosswalk and within ?6? feet of car

in this video it could be nearly impossible for this driver to see
those kids on that sidewalk - depending on what vehicles are in the
other lane

Hurricane Henri update

N NJ 7 inches rain so far
NYC 6 inches rain so far

per lookner 1200pm

scotland ct - gust to 35 mph potter
cove mass - gust to 47 mph

71K without power in RI - 70% of Wash Co RI without power

Middlesex NJ - heavy flooding

this will really set off the checkists at radio reference - openness

The big "E" might not arrive for a very long time


Note 1 - fbi getting help from volunteers re 1/6 -
https://www.npr.org/2021/08/18/1028527768/the-fbi-keeps-using-clues-from-volunteer-sleuths-to-find-the-jan-6-capitol-riote


Note 2 - fbi has major issues -
https://twitter.com/danielsgoldman/status/1429226266062999556 - and -
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1429151909412286469


Note 3 - Lafayette Park is just waiting to burst back into the news
cycle - General Milley has already apologized -
https://forums.radioreference.com/threads/park-police-radio-transmissions-during-lafayette-square-operation-on-june-1.409936/


Note 4 - less than 5% of the FBI's 13,000 special agents are black -
https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/100-years-african-american-agents-120219


The real reason for encryption looks to be getting uglier and uglier

(posted at 937 am edt to thread about new sites for 700T for los angeles)

available fire resources for california

Peter Sz
@zerg90
·13s
the engines at the scene are probably only working 12 hours per day -
they probably need more manpower - 10 buses from NYC could bring them
1,000 able bodied fire trained people to pull hoselines & use rakes -
hell Nassau County alone could probably supply 1,000 people

even if they want 500 more engines - they can probably get 100 out of
Phoenix area and 200 from Chicago area and 50 from Las Vegas area and
1,000 from New York City area (3,000 miles at 60 MPH = 50 hours)

https://twitter.com/grtych_/status/1429325415873581062

wpri livecams

https://www.wpri.com/live-cams/

new bedford live cam is down at 740 am

mostly rhode island

Boston outlook - wet, damn wet

https://origin.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/metwatch/metwatch_mpd_multi.php?md=0855&yr=2021

"As a result, the heaviest rainfall should tend to be noted along and
to the left of the storm track going toward midday, with more shallow
convective bands riding up along the eastern flank of the system."

"It should be noted that the antecedent conditions across the region
are rather wet given the recent rainfall from Post-T.C. Fred just a
few days ago, so these heavy rains associated with Henri will
encourage some more efficient runoff concerns."

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

To summarize - downtown Boston will get drowned by rain, high tide, 3
foot storm surge, and 3 major flooding rivers - right?

storm surge will be huge issue

https://twitter.com/kellyannwx/status/1429390570393309186

MEMA are you aware of this?

Boston Massachusetts area

will elderly housing at 54 Medford St in Arlington be affected? time will tell

will Menotomy Manor fill up with sewerage? time will tell

has the lower Mystic River been pumped out? anyone turn on the pumps
at Earhart Dam?

All Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles being recalled

https://twitter.com/CBSThisMorning/status/1429088403023335429

fire problems

will cost $1.8B to fix

might be cheaper to sell to USFS and use for starting prescribed fires
and back burns

tiger web at census bureau

https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/tigerwebmain/TIGERweb_main.html

trying to dig into this

one tidbit - under census of governments - approx 6,000 single
function local govt fire agencies (fpd)

casinos in western ny

https://sni.org/subsidiaries/

is it 3 or 4 casinos?

'buffalo casino will open in 2010' - dudes - its 2021 now

5 am - hurricane henri track shifted to west

https://www.wcvb.com/article/henri-update-massachusetts-new-england-tracking-storm-august-21-2021/37363013

long island will get hit not eastern mass

let me predict the msm headlines for the next 48 hours - henri
upgraded to cat 2 - henri downgraded to cat 1 - henri comes ashore on
long island as slight bout of hay fever - billy joel blown into the
bosses lap - all is well - trumpf clan claims henry destroyed all of
their properties and they must retire to Chekistania

Friday, August 20, 2021

Re: [Public Safety USA Blog] dixie fire - tanker going direct on a drop

genesee calif and / or taylorsville calif being impacted by fire now -
"entire community" - request police for people who have not left

dixie fire - tanker going direct on a drop

7 pm edt - ?lassen? county feed for dixie fire

will go right down the fireline

good air to air comms - trying to get tanker lined up for a drop

dixie fire seems to be active right now

resources going to taylorsville and maybe genessee also

2 more retardant drops and then done - 658 pm edt - sounds like it is
too smokey to fly

per yt comment - Would love to be a fly on the wall between CAL FIRE
North Ops and South Ops talks. Once South Ops sends 1 strike team or
10 strike teams to the North Ops, they can't recall them. How many to
send?

NY - Villages located in more than 1 town

https://www.tax.ny.gov/research/property/osc_table4.htm

this is like texas or illinois - very confusing - probably should not
be allowed - should be phased out

live video from kabul

https://twitter.com/ChinaDaily/status/1428680941417897994

maybe not really live - shouldnt ot be dark there now?

street scene looks normal - 2 taliban walked by with machine guns -
but just 2 of them - no cops around - heard 1 ambulance or cop car
drive by 5 minutes ago - its a holiday but shops are open - very few
women on streets

Thursday, August 19, 2021

Everett Mass - all FD radios are down

reported by Chelsea FD to MetroFire via 483.2875R by Chelsea

re Arlington Mass - cancel the Red Cross

restoring power to apts on Dudley St - bo need for Red Cross

Ethnicity map of the USA

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/us/census-race-ethnicity-map/

2 ways to look at this

an all white nation with minorities jammed into major cities

or

all white nation with minorities having the privilege of living with
their kind in sections of the major cities

would be interesting to see a map that shows the most segregated areas
- this might be the map

wash dc sure is segregated - minorities east - whites to west

nyc is very segregated also - manhattan is all white except for harlem
and chinatown - bronx is all minority - brooklyn is mostly black - SI
has pockets of minorities - queens is mostly minority

Arlington Mass FD looking for Red Cross

might need housing for 12 apartments on Dudley St

diixie fire live feed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOjxUNbuCVY

dixie fire - plumas county and lassen county california

she has flightracker running plus air to air comms - pretty cool

janesville and genesee are threatened

just got severe tstorm warning alert from wcvb

but nothing on radar - on no alerts on their website

guy in dc just surrendered

lets hope nothing blows up afterwards

more rain inbound - maybe

The weather service says the storm in MetroWest will be near Bolton
around 130 p.m., Hudson and Lancaster around 1:35 p.m., Stow around
1:40 p.m., and Acton, Maynard, Littleton, Ayer, Harvard and Boxborough
around 1:45 p.m.

flash flood warning - boston mass area

mema just sent out a flash flood warning for suffolk county Mass area
till 115pm - 471.6875 - preceded by a short tone

Massachusetts - tornado warning

se worc co + sw middlesex co - till 1115 am

per 471.6875 at 1024 am

st francois fd - in french

st francois fd in madawaska county new brunswick is dispatched in french

per edispatches

Only the Dixie Fire is showing building losses

https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/USDHSFEMA/2021/08/19/file_attachments/1910485/FEMA%20Daily%20Ops%20Briefing%2008-19-2021.pdf

dixie fire - 665 H + 552 O

caldor fire shows 0 + 0 - we know that is wrong

but in general - only the dixie fire is showing much in the way of bld
losses - the system is working - more or less

Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Kathyrn Davidson back online

from Twitter

Kathryn's World - Wildfires
@KWildfires

I'm so sorry, trying to get fire stream back up. Lost power + internet
this morning from construction mishap. Hoping it's stable for the day
now.

Grizzly Flats CA was a FireWise Community

Kathleen Newell
@NewellPhotos

Feeling a great loss for the community of Grizzly Flats this morning.
They were a Firewise community. They prepared for this. Major fire
breaks and evac zones. I always thought a fire would go around them if
threatened. All that prep didn't stop the #CaldorFire

crazy audio stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiW8gzBGz1A

pretty cool

42 Audio Illusions & Phenomena! - Part 1/5 of Psychoacoustics

This series is an INCREDIBLE resource for any serious musician or
producer. Can't find this sort of info any where else compiled into
such clear examples. Pure gold, excellent work, and thank you!

firecall: inside the cab as West Yorkshire Fire turn out to an incident in Leeds

https://youtu.be/Y639ZrGuShY

5 minute video - dash cam

there is some radio traffic

pump operator / driver grabs his portable radio as he gets out of the truck

Italy - pumper goes to a car crash call

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxgU1hZ3gNE

dashcam

note - officer puts on his ppe while traveling to the scene - gearing
up enroute - which is of course probably sop worldwide

chaos at kabul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJkNTLncmWI

crazy 1 minute video at kabul airport - using helios to keep crowds
away from C17

Howard Stern’s 9/11/01 broadcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wY4xgACSqM

3:00 it starts

howard cracking jokes right in the thick of it - "I am more upset
about this than not banging Pamela Anderson" - around 308 - probably
someone fed him that joke and he just read it

took him 2 seconds to say - 'we are under attack' - after the 2nd hit
- of course I figured that out also - probably 95% of the usa figured
that out

re - delta variant

very sorry - here is the 2 page article to read - it is from MIT and
very interesting

https://medical.mit.edu/covid-19-updates/2021/07/are-things-different-delta

Mend Co CA - update

https://twitter.com/MendoSheriff/status/1427960464437354498

mandatory evac lowered to evac warning

scanners are quiet - 751 am edt

re - brooktrails calif

https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/ctid/205

scanner feeds are calm - fire units are arriving - police are talking

Brooktrails CA - wildfire

in Mendocino County - evac order just issued at 708 am edt

brooktrails has a broadcastify feed iirc

disneyworld parade fire 2018

https://youtu.be/vQtI4kzNgZE

pretty cool

at least 1 other video linked here

I watched it in slow mo

Tuesday, August 17, 2021

hayfork ca under the gun

monument fire will get hit by northerly winds in the next couple of
hours placing the hayfork area in danger

trinity county

bottom line - the major fires are - dixie + monument + caldoor

red flag ends at 11 pm

mcfarland fire will probably flare up also

ca fire wx stream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT1LtKYWoGc

he just bot a scanner app and is trying to set it up

it works - hearing traffic

delta will NOT explode across usa

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1427738595666718724

but it will explode enuff to fill ICUs to 99% capacity

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question - has anyone in the usa died due to the lack of a ventilator?
surely at least 1 - with all the news storys about ventilator and
stockpiles - and no one died?

Caldor Fire - time lapse

https://twitter.com/US_Stormwatch/status/1427726705041436672

if the wind shift blows the fire back on itself - that would be good

looks like it is all in the mountains away from villages

changes to dixie fire feeds at broadcastify

per https://forums.wildfireintel.org/t/ca-btu-dixie/17596/333

have made some changes to the scanner feeds. A new feed has been
created. This one will broadcast normal CalFire, BLM & USFS Dispatch
and Tac channels. The other feed that has been up is dedicated to and
will only broadcast Dixie Fire freqs. I am working with Broadcastify
to get this feed renamed (Lassen County Fire - Special). Dixie Fire
traffic: Lassen County Fire & EMS Lassen County Fire & EMS Dispatch
(new feed): Lassen County Fire & EMS Dispatch

caldor fire is roaring

https://www.facebook.com/KCRA3/

those are probably 100 foot tall trees

maybe you could get a sky crane in under the smoke with a retardant cannon

Re: [Public Safety USA Blog] italy fire response video

Was a cover or assist call

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The crew departed from the city of Pavia and is heading to the town of
Voghera which is a 30 km drive, I can say it by the chat between
driver and team chief. Btw I live in the nearbys and Voghera has its
own fire department, the crew from Pavia, which is the main city of
the region, was going there as a support for sure.
REPLY

Paolo Scaratti

28 minutes ago
In addition, for a complete understanding of the video, the video ends
when the crew gets out of the city and head for the countryside, the
driver cut off the siren because it bothers them and there's no
traffic (the driver asks directly for it to the chief leader 😄)

italy fire response video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEfaUsSSI3A

9:56 they pass a fire truck

wth?

10 minute response - just stopped once along the entire way

this is what happens when you put 5 pumpers in 1 station - your
stations are now all 20 miles apart from each other and response times
are crazy long

library of Alexandria - didnt really burn down

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

very vague info

40K to 400K scrolls

maybe 275 bc to maybe 75 bc

had a small fire

ran out of money or something

northern CA - red flag tonight

https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1427612258809511958

large area of northern California

does anyone use Barricade gel anymore? is there any "approved" fire
retardant available for use on buildings? something that can be
sprayed on a building an hour before a fire arrives?

Oregon - map of wildfire potential

https://twitter.com/WxOps_fire/status/1427608664265969675

white area - ODF has no resources in those area - SW is BLM /
rangeland - central is USFS / mountainous forests - central valley is
citys iirc

keywords - swiss cheese

redding california - weather for next 7 days

https://weather.com/weather/today/l/40.59,-122.39?par=google

high temps daily 95 to 97

zero precipitation

winds 3 to 5 - except switching on weekend to 10 mph from north

ouch

California update - wildfires

El Dorado County has a major fire - medevac flying out at least 1
civilian burn victim

Trinity County has a major fire - more evac areas planned for morning

Monday, August 16, 2021

lassen county sheriff broadcastify feed

https://www.broadcastify.com/webPlayer/28384

also susanville pd

evacs are in progress - 908 pm edt

things are calm on the channel at this point

USFS to get 33% budget increase over 5 years

https://twitter.com/geodirtdude/status/1427405941893255168

US Forest Service

United States Forest Service

might include blm and fws and nps and bia also

re dixie fire

someone was reading a fire wx forecast over the radio - winds at 15
gusting to 30 at midnight - kd reports a red flag is predicted in next
couple of days - seems there will be large growth of this fire -
hopefully susanville and janesville are well prepared and pretreated
as they say

dixie fire blowing up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4BAU-fEGUc

susanville and janesville threatened on 2 fronts per Kathryn Davidson

plumas county california - lassen county

Dubai is finally fixing its sewer system

https://youtu.be/b5_8Q4X05ME

dubai depends entirely on tourists for funding

they expanded the city without increasing the size of the sewer system
- (because they were cheap bums basically)

the result - a dependance on huge fleets of shit tanker trucks

not kidding - this 8 minute video explains the story