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mike wrote:Dont you have to pay a fee to use the system?

Yes you do. And yes they are.

The new medic rescues simply denote that there's a firefighter on board, with turnouts, a BA and forcible entry tools. They still have a R/M EMT driver. I'm not exactly sure what good one firefighter does for you, but they've decided to call them something different. I will quote you when the union...

Southwestern College was approve to move to the RCS in March.

Southwestern College?

San Diego bought several of those. El Cajon's is a little more like a utility body, like a squad type thing, with radios in the compartments. Saw it at Firehouse World. Unique idea.

Although rarely heard or used, CHP is Station T. Info came from an ex-CHP dispatch supervisor.

I've heard MCAS Miramar FD use NMA Cmd 5 quite a bit in the past. My guess is that for any incident that may require non-military resources they use RCS talkgroups. Makes sense considering no non-military agency that would be assisting them would have access to the base 400 mhz trunked system. I als...

I show 38608 as OPD Traffic Tac 2, which would explain why motor units are on it.

Talkgroup 45520 - Health - HazMat

Heard talkgroup 45520 today on the north loop. Couple of brief conversations. Unk agency.

Pacific Ambulance is no longer on the RCS. It seems that all the private ambulance companies that have ever been on the RCS have eventually left for one reason or another(Pacific, Americare, and Mercy). I think one company failed to pay the RCS bill and got shut off. I imagine being on the RCS is fa...