Re: los angeles city fire department radio procedures

we just spent 30 minutes listening to archived messages from lafd via the rrdb - its very easy to use - just click on the freq then click on the bottom message - it will play the 50 ish most recent messages on the channel ems calls are announced on ch4 - sometimes 3 or 4 in a row - in 1 breath by 1 dispatcher ch 5 and ch 9 are basically used for IC to dispatcher comms - but they also have special units signing on to calls - like dozers and crews they seem to assign cmd 10 or cmd 11 to each bld fire or veg fire also 1158 am today Bike Team 51 was trying to talk to Rescue 51 at LAX on Ch 13 - comms were terrible - BT51 might have been in an elevator in a terminal at LAX "Metro 5" might be the dispatchers callsign on Ch 5 morse IDs come up regularly - might be an automated test procedure Metro" is the dispatcher on Ch 9 per channel 9 traffic - on a bld fire on Valeryo - units returned to Ch 8 afterwards - 10 was Cmd - Tac 16 and 18 were assigned - and the IC told the dispatcher to tell everyone to 'check in on 3" - guess that means announcing their arrival at staging - and apparently on Ch 3 - so that was 5 channels used on 1 small bld fire ch 5 radio traffic included - Crew 3B - Heavy Equipment 2 with Dozer 41 - cancel all resources - vicinity call - loomup from the simi valley fire - vicinity call - "would you like to be attached?" ch 4 traffic included - Cycle Team 51 and Rescue 51 to call at LAX terminal with LAXPD at scene - "Engine 12 on air" "sick person" - that was Eng 12 beingh sent to a call via radio since they were not in the station - probably happened on Ch 7 actually - Engine 68 upgrade - AP82 cancels Eng 82 - AP 13 - AP 200 - advanced practice units maybe - like community medics maybe - Light Force 12 requested a Rescue - Rescue 12 was sent - "Rescue 101 press enroute" = hit your enroute button one other radio message of note - dispatcher and Engine 26 using strict message handling techniques - "Engine 26 cancel" - the reply from Engine 26 was "Engine 26 roger" - 6 words total - not 606 words - just saying