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Friday, March 15, 2002
So Cal Scanner back online! [Source: Freq Of Nature] The So Cal Scanner has been offline the past day or two while we upgraded our Internet services. It's back online now at the following links: Live365 Link (This is the prefered method of connecting to the scanner since it can support more users at a time) http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/mini.cgi?stream=637659 ShoutCast (This is limited to 9 listeners) http://64.172.222.186:8000 Thursday, March 14, 2002
Doomed Fire Heroes' Rig Unburied at Ground Zero [Source: Firehouse.com] Recovery crews combing through debris from the north tower at Ground Zero found a firetruck yesterday - buried some 40 below street level. "I just think it's ironic that it's appearing now [six months after Sept. 11]," said Robin Freund, whose husband, Peter, a lieutenant, was one of five men killed from Engine Co. 55 in Little Italy. She said members of her husband's company had been out to Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island to look for the company's missing truck - little suspecting it was still buried deep within the wreckage at Ground Zero. The members of Engine 55 parked the truck next to the north tower before rushing in to help rescue the people inside - and when the building collapsed it apparently sucked the empty truck down with it. "They were one of the first two companies there. That's probably why [the truck was buried so deep]," said Freund, who is raising the couple's four children. She said her husband's colleagues called her after going to Ground Zero to look at the buried truck and told her it was "unrecognizable." But they did manage to remove a door and take it back to the firehouse, where they included it in a memorial to Lt. Freund, 46, and the others who perished with him, firefighters Faustino Apostol, 56, Stephen Russell, 38, Robert Lane, 30, and Christopher Mozzillo, 28. The bodies of all but Mozzillo have been recovered from the rubble. "We're very happy we found the rig, we just hope we can find our last man," said firefighter Rich Cipoletti, at the firehouse. "We hope we can bring him back home." Firefighter Paul Acciarito said of the find, "I'm ecstatic. It's almost like she was waiting for us to find her." He said having a piece of the truck in the firehouse "brings back the horrible memories of that day but I'm glad its back. A part of our heart came back."
Glendale crews to go back to riding red [Source: Daily News] By Helen Gao GLENDALE -- Yellow is out and red is in -- at least at the Glendale Fire Department. After three decades of painting its firetrucks and ambulances a color known as "lime yellow," Chris Gray, the new fire chief, has decided to return to traditional red. The decision has been greeted with nothing short of excitement by the rank and file, Fire Capt. Robert Doyle said. "It's something that all of us really desired since the day we signed on and took the oath. It is exciting," he said, admitting that over the years the color of Glendale's equipment has often been the subject of teasing by other departments. The change will be gradual as old vehicles are phased out and replaced. The first new piece of red equipment to join the department will be a paramedic ambulance. Besides being a morale booster, the color change is backed by new studies showing that red equipment with large white reflective strips is more visible than equipment painted lime yellow. "The nontraditional color of our apparatus presents unique problems of its own," Gray wrote in a report to the City Council. "Many members of the public fail to recognize the public safety nature of the apparatus." Glendale's Fire Department switched to yellow in the mid-1970s when research said that that color is more visible to the human eye than red, particularly at night and in dense fog. Glendale would not be the first department to make the switch. Santa Monica made the switch eight years ago, and Long Beach is in the process of converting from lime green back to red. With the exception of Glendale, all surrounding fire departments sport red, including Burbank, Pasadena and Los Angeles city and county. "Burbank has liked to stay with the traditional color. We have always been there to point out to Glendale that they have yellow fire engines," said Burbank Fire Captain Ron Bell. Sunday, March 10, 2002
Uniden Digital Scanners [Source: National Electronics]  Undiden BC250D Digital Handheld Scanner Apco 25 Ready, TrunkTracker III and Conventional 1000 Channels, 10 Banks 2 Line Alpha Character Display Computer Programmable Available Fall 2002  Undiden BC785D Digital Mobile/Base Scanner Apco 25 Ready, TrunkTracker III and Conventional 1100 Channels, 10 Banks 2 Line Alpha Character Display Computer Programmable Available Fall 2002  BCI25D APCO Project 25 Digital Scanner Module Conventional and Trunked APCO Project 25 3600, 9600 Baud Systems Used in Either BC250D or BC785D Available Fall 2002 |