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Jul. 12th, 2007 02:36 pm
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I was listening to the fire radio in my car last night because I am a dork.

There was an apartment fire, and the fire department got two wrong addresses and a lot of bad information at first, saying it was a storage unit or a shed or a different apartment building. But they got there in less than five minutes anyway, and charged on in to the burning apartment to put out the fire.

Meanwhile, a full "structure fire response" (lots of engines and trucks) from three other cities and the County got there in < 10 minutes. By then the commander had divided the people he had into functional groups and assigned each of the group leaders the people needed to do a task (putting out the fire, ventilating the building, checking upstairs to see if the fire had spread, searching for people in the building.)

Some of the people from the other cities and county were able to help and sped up the process tremendously.

In less than half an hour the fire was out, no one was hurt, only one apartment was badly damaged, and almost all the outside helping people had been sent away.

I am very, very impressed. And this among other things is why the next AIP post will be about the fire department.

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Date: 2007-07-12 09:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] handstil.livejournal.com
We woke up around 3 am to the sound of super loud and possibly illegal fireworks last night, any correlation?

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Date: 2007-07-12 11:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] substitute.livejournal.com
Nah, this was around 9:30 on Warner in HB.

I heard that too. It sounded like Iraq.

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Date: 2007-07-12 10:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] do-not-lick.livejournal.com
If only software engineers could get their shit together like that.

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Date: 2007-07-13 05:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] n-by-nw.livejournal.com
What is a fire radio and how do I listen to one? Because I am the kind of dork (on certain days) who tries to book flights with United so I can listen to their cockpit talk channel.

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