Mount Carmel Fire Department Tone Encoder Anthracite Fire Co

[Eng8492]

That technology is older than the hills. It is so much better sending out the information digitally on a two way paging system which repeats over and over until all target addresses respond. But with so much money tied up in pensions, many municipalities just cant afford to take care of their citizens anymore.

[firebrigade101]

Love these tap outs, lots of folks hear the tones over the air, but this shows what the other side does.

[epicsmoke30]

that just takes forever

[jmcbrid0]

"All district 4 units, standby for your Wednesday night pager test. WNGR 551." Circa 1996

[tudarocki]

Havent americans heard about selektivs ?

[RGMerkel]

@tudarocki

We use tones where I am at and they work fine. Plus the computers in our trucks send all the info for us.Why change it?

[MisterTwister55]

Hey when I was in Lemoyne, my mom heard their 3t22 go off for a call and said it sounded like the curfew siren from mt carmel when she grew up there. What siren do they and did they have up there in mount carmel??

[investmentonthebeach]

i am looking to meet people from mt.carmel i have a property there

[draedin]

Single set of tones for each department works SOOOOO much better.

[PowerInMN]

Zetron Model 25!

[Theportapottymancan]

wait mount karmal indiana

[VFVFCo68]

@Theportapottymancan this is Mount Carmel, PA

[CTFD13]

the local alarm alone took 30 seconds of tone to even make it to dispatch. thats way too long.

[gezelle007]

o thats the thing that they use to make the toes go out??

[daledeloy]

0:59 ouch lol

[HystoricalMicrobe]

Whats the point of this vid???

[ct1396]

Those tones that you hear are what a dispatch center uses to alert the pagers that firefighters carry.

[harwoodwilson]

man thats taking ages in New Zealand uses about 8 tones and faster than you can think you can turnout 4 stations in like 4 seconds from dispatch or the new command units have capablitys of sending sellcall tones also.

[stupullen]

we are faster here in California(U.S.) ... instant land line dispatch with little voice use=fast.

Our San Diego system cost $8,000,000,000.00

to start & about $2,500,000.00 to maintain each year

[wamaweur]

In the Netherlands they did use the 5-tone.

Here can you (in the first 6 sec) hear some 5-tone.

watch?v=oKQ81e_wp1s

The 5-tone is not more in use, they are now using a digital system with text.

(That system was already in use in the UK)

[jbradley26847]

I remember the Zetron equipment. I miss it! My county recently went to all digital and the new tones sound like crap.

[uscg1472]

our volenteer firedept im on has same set up as you mate

[Spryszyn]

my county uses a1/a2/a3

[mek83]

how does that work?  I dont understand that

[stupullen]

It is a preset system ,with "Quick Call".

tone generator is between the microphone & transmitter, when the tones activate, it is automatically transmitted (Over-the-air) to stations, rigs & pagers.

This one is obviously for a large community/area.

[anointed852003]

interesting vid, but i'm curious as to why there are so many tones put out (multiple departments?)...rural departments around here use one or two sets of tones to dispatch a particular dept.

[mek83]

The Mount Carmel Fire Department is made up 4 Engine Companies, 1 Truck Company, Rescue and Squad Company, Fire Police, and EMS each with their own tone, plus tones for Department Chief's (first tone on all dispatches) and a department house siren. That is the reasoning behind all of the tones you hear.

[anointed852003]

thanks! that makes much more sense now!

[TrekTuber]

No offense, but with that many tones, you'd think the building would be gone before the dispatcher ever says a word.

Have you looked into pre-alerts for box alarms in your county?

[mbfd5130]

Whats a "Pre-Alert"?

[TrekTuber]

Kind of an all-call before hitting each companies' tones. Near me, several counties will do a pre-alert on box alarms. Like "Box 1-23, 456 Main Street, structure" Then each company would be alerted separately.

[mbfd5130]

Oh I see... Thanks!

[kurtdog119]

@mek83

I used to be able to hear two fire departments' house sirens from where I live. The sirens I could hear were a Federal Signal STH-10 and a Federal Signal 3T22. Locations: STH-10 located at Woodward Township Fire Department, Lycoming County Station 2, 3T22 Located at Williamsport Bureau of Fire headquarters, Lycoming County Station 1. Those were some loud sirens, and one of the sirens still stands at one of those two stations. Do you know which one it is? If not, it is the 3T22.

[swatAo1]

but its save ur ass when the fire dept shows up when ur house is on fire.

BFD 34-180, NY

[TFRD21]

That gets anyoing pretty quick.

[mbfd5130]

Yeah it does...

[mek83]

sorry for making you watch it

oh wait.

[mbfd5130]

No, Its a good video, Im just saying...