Austin Texas Public Safety
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January 2000 from CenTexScan@onelist.com
Austin Fire Dept recently (in the past 2-3 months) changed thier radio channel assignments. 1 FireCom 1 fireground channel for major incidents (primarly just fire response) 2 FireCom 2 fireground channel for major incidents (primarly just fire response) 3 FireCom 3 Joint operations with Austin EMS. More info below 4 FireCom 4 fireground channel for major incidents (primarly just fire response) 5 FireCom 5 Apparatus (usually just one or two) response/On the air channel. 6 FireCom 6 fireground channel for major incidents (primarly just fire response) 7 FireCom 7 Tone dispatch 8 FireCom 8 fireground channel for now, but might become another joint ops channel w/ AEMS 9 FireCom 9 ABIA/Airport calls (crash/fire/rescue or medical, any airport call)FireCom3 (sometimes called FireMed - that name never really stuck), is the primary channel that the responding afd unit and aems unit are to go to once they are responding. normal medical calls (heart attacks, strokes, respiratory distress, etc) use that channel unless there is a larger incident needing the channel (pinin's, rescues, etc.). Then the normal med stuff is just out of luck and is handled on the regular channels.
FireCom8 supposedly is to become another FireMed channel for overflow. don't hold your breath.
Austin EMS sends a unit (normally support 1) to all structure fires. that unit normally monitors the FireCom channel that the incident is on and can talk to the IC on it.
Some area frequency lists show different FireCom channels for different parts of the city. the first fire/incident gets FireCom 1 and the next gets FireCom 2, etc. the only difference is a multi-alarm fire, usually they assign a FireCom (the next one in line) for staging.
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1998 - Austin Upgraded to ISO Class 2
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