Fire pager going off

This is my fire pager as it's going off.

Notice: There is a copycat out there that used the audio from this video. This is the ORIGINAL video, not to be confused with the copycat video listed below...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2brXocW-p8

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Pager
• fire
• department
• call
• emergency

[orangekangaroo1610]

is this nc

[hubbajuba]

@orangekangaroo1610, Yup

[draedin]

In all my years, I've never heard of a computer dispatching by voice. I've learned something today. Can you key up the radio to talk to it? 

[hubbajuba]

@draedin, haha no, you can't talk to it. It's just part of the CAD system(computer automated dispatch). To make things short, this is a repeater of the actual channel everyone talks on for dispatch only. But this is a pager, not a radio.

[civicman241]

thats a minitor 4? looks sorta like a 5 haha. i got a shitty minitor 2 since im a junior T_T

[hubbajuba]

@civicman241 Yup it's a minitor 4. The minitor 5s are slightly taller, wider, and much thicker. I'll try and track down another 4 and a 5 to compare them both to the minitor 3 I currently have... :-)

[2firefighter9]

lol i gotta laugh i like my human dispatchers

[808514]

i agree. the computer ones just dont sound right

[zeangia]

@hubbajuba I thought i recognized the tones. :D

[meatyspudpies]

@draedin this is fucking unbelevable

[lildog908]

do you work with Bay Leaf and if you do which one?

[ramofusang390]

@civicman241 dont complain im a full member of my department and i have a Minitor 1

[tripovermyego]

@civicman241 we call those ghost pages lol

[civicman241]

@live2ride2fast dont get me wrong..i like my minitor 2...and it IS a tank haha and can take damage...but like....id prefer to have the viberate and repeater functions cause i run QRS too...and with the repeater, i can get a second-check on the address without having to call dispatch on the radio...especially since at my station, most of us take personal vehicles on QRS calls

[live2ride2fast]

@civicman241 Don't knock it - M2's arguably are the best yet. I had a department-issued M3 that was junk...nothing but static. Other members of my department spent the money on M4's and M5's and say they miss their M2's. I bought a M2 on Ebay for $30, already programmed to our freq. Popped in some tone reeds from an old pager, and VOILA! I am happier with my M2 than the other guys are with their $400+ pagers!

[souderico]

Montgomery County, PA has a Computer back-up "dispatcher" for days when they are short or just swamped...let me tell you how horrible it is. It is unable to pronounce some street names or some township/borough names...in which case it either attemps to do it or just spells it out....kinda annoying if its 3am and you just woke up.