[Scan-DC] Montgomery Co EMS Ops

Mon, 28 Jul 2003 19:55:26 -0400

Andy and the Group:

The units are SUPPOSED to get hospital statuses on their MDCs.  I'm not sure
whether this is fully working yet.

Many of the MDCs, themselves, are not yet working correctly and, as you can
tell from the on-air questioning of units by dispatchers, the GPS feature
for tracking units is also far from 100%.

Ed
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy" <[email protected]>
To: "Scan-DC" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 7:11 PM
Subject: [Scan-DC] Montgomery Co EMS Ops

> Is it apparent to anyone else listening in to the EMS comms on the new
ASTRO
> system that there are no hospital status' being given out over the air?  I
> say this because I've been monitoring an excessive amount of EMS units
> contacting the various area hospitals directly with transport information
> only to find out the hospital is on Yellow or Red alert.  So, I suppose my
> questions is where are these units supposed to get their hospital status
> updates?  Is it the MVC's?  If so, they sure don't seem like they're
> operating as they should.  Anyone else have any idea's on this?  Maybe a
> training issue?  Not sure but it seems like these MVC's aren't operating
as
> they should.  There's always multiple units on the air who mention that
> their's isn't working, so they're communicating status verbally.
>
> Andy
>
>
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