Sunday, April 23, 2006
BOATS 0 - RADIOS 0 / Not much of a tie...
WTF !
Someone was stupid enough to jump into the river in Monessen today and they picked the perfect spot if they really were serious about suicide knowing how BAD our communications system is !
The person jumped in from the Monessen Bridge and of course all the local police departments got involved and the fire sirens started to sound… but Chief 31’s (Webster Command) radio didn’t work, transmissions were SHOTTY, Washington County got involved and they had no communications with Westmoreland… the police were not able to talk to the fire departments ( NO ONE THOUGHT TO GO TO A COUNTY-WIDE TAC CHANNEL BUT ME ), boats were put in the water, one from Westmoreland County ( as soon as they could find a radio to put in the boat ) and one from Washington County ( with no radios compatible with Westmoreland County ).
Lifeflight was in the air and volunteered to FLY OVER the scene to help locate the jumper and they were on 33.98 Mhz, which the Monessen Bridge Command COULD NOT communicate with… in fact only one unit was in touch with Lifeflight ! WOW !
HEY MR. MATASON – HEY MR. BRAMMEL
Congratulations on INTER-OPERABILITY !
In one instance I heard Washington County’s boat contact Washington Co.’s command with a message for Westmoreland Co.’s boat. Washington Co. had to contact Westmoreland Co.’s 911 who contacted Monessen Bridge Command who then relayed the message to the boat. THE BOATS WERE ROUGHLY ONLY A FEW HUNDRED YARDS AWAY FROM EACH OTHER !
Then it took 3 relays for Monessen Fire Station 81 to get the message to the Monessen Chief that THEIR BOAT was out of service.
The whole thing is still going on at this time and I will attempt to add a finish to this later. In fact I could end with this, MATASON – You SCREWED UP. This is much bigger than just what I wrote above… such as it was told to me that MARK BRAMMEL REFUSED TO ALLOW WASHINGTON CO. ON OUR SYSTEM !
WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO GET IT, THIS SYSTEM ISN'T FOR THIS COUNTY... IT ONLY SERVES TO PAD THE POCKETS OF CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS AND COMPANIES !
Isn’t that special….
DECODED,
K3SAM
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