TheFireHorn - The Tones Drop

The Fire Horn enables emergency responders to supplement their pagers and radios with their cell phones. By providing a bridge from their radios to their cell phones.

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[nmfd72]

The only fail safe alerting system remains the audible alarms (Your Fire House Siren). pages and cell phones are not fail safe. Put your audibles back in service.

[TheFireHornLLC]

@nmfd72 Thanks for your interest in The Fire Horn. The Fire Horn has many features, including fail safes that can contact firefighters via cell phone, land line, or e-mail in the event of a power failure or other problem with our equipment at your station. Our Enterprise products have even more features, which include paging via VHF Radio in the event of an equipment failure.

[firebrigade101]

Nice concept, but i personally think this would less efficient than page systems, it would take dispatch longer to get the message out and having a silent mode only gives the lazy no accounts a reason to miss a call.

I may be old fashion, but i love the tone out and haul ass days.

[TheFireHornLLC]

@firebrigade101 While The Fire Horn can work independently, The Fire Horn Radio Bridge works as a secondary paging system alongside your radio-based paging system. The Phone Call and Text Message come almost instantaneously with your radio page-out. If your dispatch center does not wish to send out detailed text messages, The Fire Horn Dispatch Center can monitor your radio traffic and transcribe the information for your department.

[cgranger51]

In my opinian in think its good but cell phones some times dont pick up stuff and when people call me at night i dont here it go off but i here my pager go off un less you mean to have a pager and the Fire Horn at the same time

[tjperkins88]

While I would not trust this at all as a standalone system (due to how phones can go down), this in parallel with a radio tone system is the best. For the volunteer EMA/OEM stuff I do, we get notified via text/call from a reverse-911 from our city's EOC, which is great most of the time. Since we're EMA, we dont do toning like a FD, so it's somewhat of our only option aside from radio comms (without tones).

[firebrigade101]

@TheFireHornLLC Thank you for the detail, as a retired district Chief, i would have to see this on a side by side...sometimes my mind can be changed but I really don't trust some "New" methods, i will keep tabs on this and if it turns out better, i will change any negative comments.