Broadcast of CAD fire calls

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pcell61
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Broadcast of CAD fire calls

Post by pcell61 »

Anyone know if San Diego Fire or any other agency in the county will broadcast fire calls on the internet like they do up in the bay area?
SkipSanders
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Post by SkipSanders »

San Diego Fire Department doesn't. Whether they someday will, who knows?
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mike
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Post by mike »

Sounds like you get all the good stuff up in northern california :)
SkipSanders
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Post by SkipSanders »

Bear in mind that putting CAD on the web costs money and personel time, neither of which is in much supply in most public safety groups.

They cannot just tie the 'real' CAD to the public web, due to privacy issues. So someone must code each CAD call manually for 'web allowed' or not, which is more work for the weary dispatcher. And putting it on web does cost money. So unless someone at the department in question has a personal strong desire to do it, it's not going to happen.

That said, there ARE some local CAD systems up:

Cleveland National Forest: http://63.196.254.151//Wildweb/wccnf.htm

Ventura County FD: http://38.101.117.146/fireline/index.html

CHP: http://cad.chp.ca.gov/default.asp

If you feel really energetic, you can add a discriminator tap to an old scanner, and use a program like POC32 with your computer's sound card to monitor the San Diego County pagers, which include Escondido Fire, Heartland Fire (some), and CDF (some), POCSAG 1200 on 155.940 -- Yes, it's legal, since the ECPA only bars monitoring pagers on COMMON CARRIERS, which the private channels of a public safety system aren't.

San Diego City uses 154.085 and 155.685 for paging, but it's in the very old GOLAY mode, which I can't deal with. (Motorola owns it as a proprietary mode, and made a VERY firm effort to smash anyone publishing programs to decode it into teeny little bits, worldwide)
Rescue Pooh
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Post by Rescue Pooh »

If anyone is interested Clark County, NV has one as well

http://fire.co.clark.nv.us/AlarmOffice/ ... ffice.aspx
Brian
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Post by Brian »

So we don't post all the links here. There already a great website with most of all the CADs out there online.

http://scannerfeeds.us/modules/tinycont ... .php?id=59
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