[Scan-DC] DC Fire trunked radio failure

[Kenneth Fowler]

Well the Office of Unified Communications (DCFD and MPD dispatch, 911,311)
are on MLK Ave SE.  The HQ for Fire and Police are elsewhere in the city.



On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Doug Kitchener <oldsdoug at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> There used to be a big tower in DC somewhere near Georgia Avenue and
> Missouri Avenue NW, that I believe was their main transmitter site... is it
> still there, and still the main site?
>
> (I realize that the transmitter doesn't have to be at the antenna, of
> course, and that the control point isn't there for sure!)
>
> Are both the DC fire and PD "headquarters" in the same place?  Isn't on MLK
> avenue somewhere in SE?
>
> I was at "fire alahm headquarters" years ago, when it was on McMillan Drive
> near the reservoir... they still had street boxes then!  Is there anything
> still there?
>
> 2250, KGA-611
>
> ----------------------------------------
> > From: edtobias at comcast.net
> > To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
> > Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:50:40 -0400
> > Subject: [Scan-DC] DC Fire trunked radio failure
> >
> > Montgomery County Fire is reporting that DC Fire has had a "catastrophic
> failure" of its 800 mHz radio system and that DCFD is operating on several
> MCFRS 71-series talk groups.
> >
> > Edl
>
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