Georgia Public Safety
There is a great scanner site for the Atlanta area - www.ScanAtlanta.com
Also look for scan-atlanta or ?scanatlanta or ?atlantascan at www.onelist.com/www.egoups.com. (now www.yahoogroups.com)
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Statewide Items
Some Counties Do Not Have 911 - 2002
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Chatham County
Chatham County Public Safety Info
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Cobb County
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Effingham County
from [email protected] - July 2000 - Effingham County, GA has a new fire repeater located in the southern portion of the county near Faulkville. The output is 154.175 and the input is 158.865. It is to be used for tactical traffic with dispatch still on 153.950. Among the users will be Meldrim, Faulkville, South Effingham, and West Effingham.
(I have old county info from ?1975 fire study in the blue notebook - pS)
Eff Co Public Safety - Aug 2000 - FD Funding - $35 per House
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Fulton County
Dobbins Naval Air Station Freqs - May 2000
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Atlanta
Atlanta Fire Department Website - last updated Jan 2000
Problems With Poor Coverage - Atlanta's Trunked Radio System - April 2000
Detailed Info on Atlanta FD Radio Ops
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Georgia Mutual Aid Group - Fire
You might want to look at the Georgia Mutual Aid Group, GMAG (www.gmag.org) . It is an organization of Fire depts with the same municipal charter as a city. We have mobilized several times in the past few years for everything from the Fires in Fla, tornados in Dekalb and Gwinnett County and large structure fires. You are all� familiar with the helicopter rescue from the crane in Atlanta. What is not well known is that 11 trucks, 23 engines, and 6 or 8 chiefs cars back filled Atlanta stations and some made it to the fire. The Assistant Chiefs in Atlanta made a wise decision to call early enough so that they did not run out of resources, thoguh for a short time there were no Engines in the city as the mutual aid companies were coming in. And there were other fires as well,� My Engine company operated on that fire for 5 hours. It was well coordinated.
As a fire chief it is a comfort knowing that all I have to do to get 23 Engines and 11 trucks in an hour or less is make one call. I can also get other resources and even a command team that will assist (never take over) with the tasks in an incident.� We have members all the way from north Ga to Savannah/Brunswick and are in discussions with depts in Tenn.
As for individuals, Its important that the firefighters that go to an incident be going under the agreement and command of their agency so that workers comp and insurance matters do not become an issue( you do not want to have to pay if you are injured!!) freelancing is hard to control and can be a problem in these larger incidents. we would be pleased to help.
Chief David M. Wall - [email protected]
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Glynn County
Glynn County Having Problems receiving some wireless 911 calls - Aug 2002
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12May99 info from [email protected]
Now this is a real interesting intercept. Right before lunch (EDT) caught some units simplex on 156.000 discussing their lunch plans in regards to various local restaurants. Several mentions were made of their K-9 companions. We have had several folks pass along 156.100 MHz simplex as a possible K-9 handlers frequency for the guards at the Georgia Department of Corrections. Based on the traffic monitored here we could have another unlicensed frequency usage by the Georgia Dept of Corrections K-9 handlers. Mark this tentative.
Also the a couple of nights ago, we heard definite LE tactical surveillance traffic on 156.3 MHz. Based on the locations passed, this was also a Georgia LE agency. These days you just don't know what is going to pop up in the spectrum.
We might live in the country, but you sure can't tell it by the radio traffic. ;-) My complete list for the Tri-State area is posted in the frequency exchange section on the Monitoring Times homepage in case someone wants or needs it. 73 all and good hunting,
Larry Van Horn - MT Assistant Editor-Fed File/Milcom/Service Search Columnist Monitoring Times Magazine - Grove Enterprises Publisher Need freqs? Visit our new e-commerce website at http://www.grove-ent.com Brasstown, NC/828-837-9200 voice/828-837-2216 Fax/800-438-8155 N5FPW: AirBoss IRC channels: #monitor/#airband/#milcom/#wun
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Created - 2 April 2000 by Peter Szerlag
Updates - 12 Apr 2000 - added Atlanta FD website - 19May00 - Dobbins - 16June00 - Chatham Co - 27July00 - Effingham Co - 20Aug00 - more Eff Co - 13Sept00 - DOC strange freqs - Aug 2002 - Glynn Co 911 problems + 911 Lacking + Cobb Co TGs