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Author:  george r saxton [ Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:47 am ]
Post subject:  tacoma staion 15
tacoma has moved staion 15 to 57th and mckleny ave they closed the on on the port of tacoma old staion 15 also how come we can never here a dispatch on tacoma fire can only here when they have a fire not any thing else do they not have tones and voice on other calls other then fires
Author:  Louie [ Fri Feb 29, 2008 12:05 am ]
Post subject:  Re: tacoma staion 15
Yeah I hate that too. :x The no tones at all, only for big fires. I think they dispatch on their MDT's. Im not entirely sure though.
Author:  B [ Fri Feb 29, 2008 7:51 am ]
Post subject:  Re: tacoma staion 15
I think they have telegraph lines to the stations, or at least some sort of hard-wired system to do voice alarms that doesn't use the radio. There's a TFD boom truck that is constantly driving around the city working on lines.
Author:  Atomic Taco [ Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:28 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: tacoma staion 15
B wrote:
I think they have telegraph lines to the stations...

When I first read that, I pictured the dispatcher using morse code to relay the address :P
Author:  B [ Sat Mar 01, 2008 7:50 am ]
Post subject:  Re: tacoma staion 15
Actually, that's not far off. Many departments used to have ticker tapes. The telegraph would put the box number in morse code on the ticker tape. They'd then respond to that box. I'm sure Tacoma FD used to have that, because downtown there's still some old pull boxes on street corners.
Author:  B [ Sat Mar 01, 2008 12:22 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: tacoma staion 15
Check out this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2A7BLBd ... re=related

At about 7:25 you'll see a Chicago Fire Department dispatcher tapping out an alarm in morse code.
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