Boston Esplanade / 4th of July Concert

public safety overview

state police do crowd patrol + screening + VIP escorts - since the
Esplanade is state property and usually patrolled by the state police

boston police do traffic control and crowd control in areas adjacent
to the esplanade

boston ems does ems on the esplanade and on the river and in the
nearby neighborhoods

across the river in cambridge - MIT and Cambridge provide safety services

on the river - boston ems rides on state police boats - boston fire
might have 1 boat on the river - cambridge has 1 or 2 boats - uscg
might have a boat or 2 on the river also

boston symphony or mugar company handles the musical production

one TV station provides mass media coverage maybe

boston fire might have hazmat team on standby in the area - state
hazmat team might be staged somewhere - fbi might have some teams
around - maybe

unknown on swat teams or eod teams or disaster teams

mass general hospital is only a couple of blocks away - hopefully they
have extra staff on duty

mbta provides lots of buses and trains till late - hopefully

not sure where the fireworks will be at - 10 pm is the time I think -
maybe at the esplanade or maybe downtown at the harbor - concert will
start at 8pm

bpd uses ch1 (460.35R) - it is patched to 851.5125 + Fed IO 158.73? +
BAP 4 470.5625R

reportedly - bapern central is patched to Fed LE4 and LPS1 and
Cambridge PS - unknown use

Mass State Police (MSP) is using SOPS1 for traffic control + SOPS4 for
vip escorts + LPS3 for marine units / boats

Events 2 TG might be for crowd control on the esplanade or maybe natl
guard on the esplanade

not hearing any traffic on bapern central except that bpd called mit once

470.0125 has had zero traffic all day

apparently the radios being used cannot scan across multiple bands -
hence the need to create multi band patched networks - not really sure
why they do this - there are just 2 primary police channels in use -
BPD Ch 1 and MSP SOPS 1

Boston Fire might be using Ch 3 - let me hunt around and see what else
we can dig up

SOPS and LPS and EVENTs TGs are on the 700/800T CoMirs system