It is Now STATter911.com; Audio from the Middle of Unifest; Local Battle as Backdrop to Convention; This is Not a Drill
We are now making it easier for you to access STATter 911. Just go to STATter911.com and you will be taken right to this blog.
Here is what we have been covering and some stuff from around the web:
The recordings from D.C.’s Office of Unified Communications (911 Center) provide a very interesting view of how three different groups of people simultaneously react to the same emergency. The emergency was the approximately 40 pedestrians struck by a station wagon at Unifest in Anacostia last Saturday. STATter 911 has the raw audio of EMS, police and the public. Very interesting listening.
Make sure you pick up the local papers if you are heading to the beach for the MSFA Convention in a week (I plan to be there for a couple of days … more later). You will want to be up on the latest in the battle between City Manager Dennis Dare and the Ocean City Volunteer Fire Company. OCVFC President James Jester and Fire Chief Chris Larmore have fired back at the City Manager. In a letter to the Maryland Coast Dispatch, the pair dispute Dare’s version of events in the negotiations over plans for the future of fire and EMS in the resort town. Here is a sample:
“Mr. Dare quickly withdrew his plan and stated it was ‘off the table’ and we trusted this withdrawal and presumed the issue was dead,” the letter reads. “To the astonishment of the OCVFC, that very same plan was presented to the Ocean City Council at their May 4, 2007 work session. Is this how Mr. Dare wishes to clear up ‘some misconceptions and confusion’? Was the OCVFC naïve in trusting City Manager Dennis Dare at his word?”
Bill Schumm’s firegeezer.com pointed me to a link for raw helicopter video of a motel fire near Atlanta that killed a family of five on Thursday.
Oops. According to the Salt Lake Tribune a propane fueled fire disrupted operations at the Salt Lake City International Airport. The two 12,000-gallon propane tanks have a unique purpose. The tanks provide the fuel for props that burn during training fires at the Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighter Training Center.
