[Scan-DC] Unit 5 Enroute Rt 301 PG

[Matt Stevens]

It also could have been because they do not normally work together and do
not have knowledge of the PG system. It also could have been because PG
recently switched to a new system.
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Andrew Clegg <w4jecom at w4je.com> wrote:

> I could understand BWI not being able to talk to PG while still at BWI due
> to distance, but since PG was going to give them portables upon arrival,
> then the issue was on-scene communications. Even just a simplex channel
> would have allowed interop. Did they not have even that?
>
> On Dec 6, 2011, at 18:34, Russ Davies <russdavies at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > Could it have just initially been an issue of range? I know that PGFD is
> one of the zones in the Anne Arundel portables, but only in the portables
> which limits the range. Coming off the BWI property I'm pretty sure they
> wouldn't have been able to get the PG system until they were further south.
> Just a thought.
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On Dec 6, 2011, at 5:58 PM, "Jerry Hoyt " <jerryinva at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I am sure there is, maybe not specifically for these two agencies. I
> did a major report for a counter-terrorism graduate school class at Hopkins
> which discussed how this was still a problem for the National Capital
> Region, but that was a few years ago. Lexus-Nexus provided some useful
> links.
> >>
> >>
> >> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: "Clegg  Andrew W." <aclegg at nsf.gov>
> >> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 22:54:41
> >> To: <jerryinva at hotmail.com>; <fivealarmphotography at gmail.com>; <
> knbrooks at wusa9.com>
> >> Cc: <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
> >> Subject: RE: [Scan-DC] Unit 5 Enroute Rt 301 PG
> >>
> >> Does anyone have a link to a published news report regarding the lack of
> >> interoperability between PG and BWI during this incident? I find this
> >> astonishing, more than 30 years after Air Florida. If there is no
> >> published report, this should be forwarded to a news organization for
> >> broader exposure (WUSA9, perhaps??).
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> >> [mailto:scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jerry Hoyt
> >> Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 10:32 PM
> >> To: Matt Stevens ; knbrooks at wusa9.com
> >> Cc: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
> >> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Unit 5 Enroute Rt 301 PG
> >>
> >> Ahhh. The ugly old monster of lack of interoperability rears its ugly
> >> head again.
> >>
> >>
> >> ------Original Message------
> >> From: Matt Stevens
> >> To: knbrooks at wusa9.com
> >> Cc: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
> >> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Unit 5 Enroute Rt 301 PG
> >> Sent: Dec 5, 2011 10:19 PM
> >>
> >>
> >> 2 Engines, 1 Tanker, 1 Paramedic and Battalion Chief 2 from Anne Arundel
> >> County are enroute.
> >>
> >> Crash Rigs from BWI Airport are also enroute. They do not have any radio
> >> contact with PG. BWI dispatch told the BWI FD units that people on scene
> >> would give them radios.
> >> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Brooks, Kurt <knbrooks at wusa9.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Overturned fuel tanker sb 301 @ 450.
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