Evergreen Fire Rescue - 911 Communications

The 911 dispatch center for Evergreen Fire Rescue in Evergreen Colorado.

Also featuring AirLife Denver and Flight for Life Colorado.

Part 1 of 4 for Evergreen Fire Rescue

Music: Innocent by Bond

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Tags:

• fire
• 911
• dispatch
• communications
• evergreen
• colorado
• bond
• innocent
• department
• ems
• rescue
• radio
• pierce
• firetruck

[cyberlight22]

I never under stud the dispatch tones why din't that just talk to get the fire police or ems rolling?

[pozharnik]

tones can be used to grab attention, or in most cases their radio pagers are programed to listen for a specific Hertz that will make the pager beep or vibrate.

[tornadofreak1994]

but can it activate a bell inside a fire station?

[pozharnik]

They can, but Evergreen's stations aren't set up with station paging. Just minitors.

[buzman1985]

"Evergreen Fire/EMS What is your emergency" Every thing is secondary to the location. Your agency should look into Medical Priority Dispatch System.

[pozharnik]

your point has been made more than once, thank you.

[kb6kgx]

The music is distracting and completely unnecessary. Otherwise, an interesting video.

[knpdyeballarice]

if you could take out the nusic that'd be great. thanks.

[wyo7011]

@cyberlight22 Most agencies have specific pagers for each specific engine, ambulance, etc. It's to get that specific unit's attention, without waking up the whole system. When you have done it for a while, you'll learn the different tones and know who is being paged before dispatch starts talking, lol.

[buzman1985]

@pozharnik Really, I'm getting so much crap because of a comment that isn't that bad? I think if you're a secondary PSAP or a PSAP that takes Fire/Medical/Police you should ask Location first. I understand if it's a Police PSAP and they need to aceratain if the call stays with them or gets trainfered to a Fire and/or Medical PSAP. But, I think Evergreen appears to be FIRE/EMS and location is the most important thing. That said, great video and your CAD and Comm. Center look great. -Blake EMD/EFD

[buzman1985]

@Rescue1304 I'm an idiot? Try using the right 'you're'.

Your=Possessive / You're=You are

[Rescue1304]

@buzman1985 your an idiot! 

[ArmyRescue1]

am i the only one who hates this music? or what lol? i wish i could have heard the calls a little bit better.

[78firebear]

The other reason for tones is often there are more then one Department being dispatched off the same channel, the different tones can be for different stations/departments/districts­. This often happens in large countys

[PowwowTime]

Fire/EMS tones activate pagers, plectrons and in some communities, the "town fire siren". Not all fire stations are manned at all times, and certainly not many stations have somebody sitting by the radio all day. On the other hand, police rarely have to be "toned out" because they are in constant contact with their dispatcher while on patrol, however an alert-tone might go out in the case of an extreme situation such as officer-needs-help (10-33) or certain crimes reported as in-progress.

[llfdemt]

Tones are used in Fire and EMS to get the attention of the necessary crew(s). Its Hard to keep a ear on the radio all the time. sometimes the crews are outside or out shopping and the tones activate pager type do-dads that also alert the necessary crews to the event. Police don't use them all that often as they always have a ear to the radio.