[Scan-DC] Eagle 1 in Frederick County

[Alan Henney]

I'm often disappointed by how poorly MSP Troopers communicate with the
county and municipal agencies.  For example, a few days ago they had a
medevac in PGCo.  The helicopter crew is able to get to the main talkgroup
but rarely gets to the correct working channel.

They've been through this repeatedly.  The dispatcher ends up setting the
LZ on the main channel... totally unacceptable to have millions invested in
an aircraft with a highly skilled crew and they can't operate the radio.
Or is it a radio programming problem?

They might as well let the medic take the patient by ground to the hospital
until they get this finally fixed.

Alan



On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 9:24 AM Joseph M. Durnal <joseph.durnal at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Last night the Frederick County Sheriffs Office responded to a domestic
> assault that ended up having two victims and two helicopters were needed.
> Trooper 3 from Frederick, and usually, Trooper 2 would be the second, but
> they must have been busy so they sent Eagle 1 from the USPP.  What I found
> really impressive was that Eagle 1 was able to talk to Frederick County
> Fire Rescue on the county system.  Their audio is better than Trooper 3.
>
> Other than a general understanding that the lower the number/letter the
> more serious the injury, I finally decided to look up priority and
> category.  The first hit on Bing when I searched  "ems priority and
> category" was https://henney.com/chm/0309/chm0309.pdf - unfortunately
> these
> patients were both 1A.
>
> J
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