crossroads plaza....in front of the mcdonalds near circuit city.....3 fire trucks, a load of cop cars, vehicles flipped on their sides...what happened/are the people ok?

I saw what might have been steven spielberg and a megaphone....it was dark so I'm not 100% sure

12/7/2008 7:52:11 PM

my wake county radio is down in my car, lemme go grab it and i'll listen in on the tac channel

12/7/2008 7:53:07 PM

lemme go grab my cb

12/7/2008 7:53:40 PM

you can't listen using a cb

12/7/2008 7:54:01 PM

NOSHIT

12/7/2008 7:54:25 PM

oh

icwydt

12/7/2008 7:54:55 PM

it's ok baby

12/7/2008 7:55:35 PM

fuck mah battery is dead

i don't have a charger here either... and i don't feel like driving to the station for another battery

sry, b

maybe someone with a scanner will help you out, although i'm not sure if you can get the tac channels on them or not

12/7/2008 7:56:44 PM

Something tells me that it's probably a car accident.

12/7/2008 8:11:08 PM

hey evan, sometimes i pick up some kind of emergency tone-outs on the marine vhf i have in my truck

it'll be like a tone-out and then some robotic female computer voice will give a location. sometimes i recognize them as intersections around raleigh.

whadafuck is this?

12/7/2008 8:11:39 PM

^that's locution, otherwise known as laqueesha - she does all our dispatching

they are indeed tone outs - our tone pagers/station pagers work off of VHF because motorola doesn't make minitors that work on 800mhz yet, our voice radios are 800mhz digital

wake fire dispatch 1 is 154.19
ems dispatch 1 is 156.225

the vhf channels are just simulcasts of ems/fire dispatch with the tones added in

12/7/2008 8:15:19 PM

lmao

http://e00.us/lolol/laqueesha.wav

she sounded like this, right?

12/7/2008 8:17:33 PM

ahahahahahahahah;hahahahahahahahahhahhahahah


holy fuck yes that is awesome


so what would happen if i was around a station and keyed up on that channel?

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12/7/2008 8:18:58 PM

that was the result of my friend (who runs the EMD stuff in wake county) and i getting bored

she can only say certain words because a woman actually has to record everything... so right now, she can say the name of everything in wake county

not sure why she can say daddy... or boogy to the beat... but that was the weirdest thing we could piece together

we also did "HEMORRHAGE AT THE BACK DOOR CLUB"

12/7/2008 8:20:27 PM

Quote :

"Something tells me that it's probably a car accident."

12/7/2008 8:21:30 PM

Quote :

"so what would happen if i was around a station and keyed up on that channel?"

actually, nothing, unless you played the tones assigned to one of the units at that station

our tone pagers and station alert systems only go off when they hear the tones they've been programmed to listen for, otherwise, they stay silent

if you played the tones back, you'd hear a loud klaxon and the station lights would turn on (and in some stations, the bay doors would go up) and everyone would run out to the truck

please don't do that

12/7/2008 8:22:03 PM

nah, i don't care enough to do that

12/7/2008 8:23:15 PM

so it's all of wake county ems or what?

12/7/2008 8:24:33 PM

yeah

now that wake county ems has basically forced everyone to be a part of wake county ems

we used to all be independent agencies (cary ems, apex ems, knightdale ems, etc)

we still are... but now everyone has to be on wake county's radio system... it's stupid as shit and i hate it.

when you call 911 in cary, your call is answered by cary central dispatch... who takes your info, etc... and if they need to dispatch an ems unit, they CALL RESCOM (in RALEIGH) and tell them everything you just told them... and then rescom dispatches a CARY TRUCK

does that make any sense at all?

12/7/2008 8:26:38 PM

no. why'd they do it?

12/7/2008 8:27:59 PM

because wake county ems likes to feel important, lol

12/7/2008 8:28:23 PM