[Scan-DC] Montgomery County dispatcher says "condition red"

Fri, 19 Sep 2003 16:17:01 -0400

They DID, coincidently, have a system crash as Isabel was starting to move
into the area yesterday afternoon.

Ed

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug K." <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Montgomery County dispatcher says "condition red"

> not necessarily - Condition  Red is when they get really busy, units are
> only supposed to xmit urgent msgs, not routine stuff - they don't take
Pepco
> pole #s and hospital notifications for Priority 3, that kind of thing.
One
> of the active firefighters here can tell you a little more about it.  It's
> frequently ignored or abused anyway,  it anyway, it seems, either out of
> dumbness or somebody thinking that whatever they're doing is more
important
> than it really is.
>
> (Not to say that they _didn't_ have a system crash - they seem to have the
> most trouble under the worst circumstances!!)
>
> Doug
>
>
> >From: [email protected]
> >To: [email protected]
> >Subject: [Scan-DC] Montgomery County dispatcher says "condition red"
> >Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:43:34 -0400
> >
> >Montgomery County dispatcher says "condition red".
> >153.950 MHz.
> >System crash, apparently.
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