Posted by bobster1 on August 12, 2001 at 13:19:04:
In Reply to: Re: Seattle fire medic comm posted by Chris on August 12, 2001 at 10:07:46:
very good summary, i agree with that from my experience... what i'm not clear on is the difference between an aid unit and a medic unit?
: Here is the deal with the issue(s) you all are talking abut.
: When an Aid Unit requests a Medic Unit from the scene, the dispatcher tones out the closest Medic Unit( also called upgrading or balancing). Meaning the initial "Aid Response", with either a Aid Unit, Engine, or Ladder Co. dispatched, now requires an ALS resource (Medic Unit).
: The dispatcher tones out the Medic Unit. The unit says their "Responding" by voice or AVL/MDT. The dispatcher comes on the radio and says: " Medic-10, 1535 E. Pine St."
: The Medic Unit Replys: " Medic-10 responding to 1535 E. Pine St."
: Dispatcher(to Medic Unit): "This is with Aid-25, original call was for sick-unknown, Aid-25 on scene reporting male with chest pain."
: Dispatcher(to Aid Unit): "Aid-25, you have Medic-10 responding."----"Aid-25 speak/talk to Medic-10."
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: When the dispatcher says for the Aid Unit to "talk" or "speak" to the responding medic unit, she/he is prompting the on-scene unit to give a "short report" to that responding Medic Unit over the radio.
: When you don't hear any conversation between the on scene units and the responding Medic Unit, it is because the on scene unit either isn't ready to give a short report, the medic is on scene quickly, or the on scene crew is too busy to talk on the radio. (or they forget)
: They don't switch to a special simplex channel or anything like that. If you listen the on scene units will give a "short report" on the EMS Response channel, which is SFD Channel-5 (TG 1776). The KC 800MHz system is huge, and has the ability to accomodate alot of radio traffic.
: Hopefully that explains that lack of radio traffic between Medic Units and Aid, Engine, and Ladder Co.'s.