Contra Costa Fire Rescue on Helmet Cam
On October 13, 2011 Contra Costa Firefighters rescued two women from a burning building. The raw footage was captured by the firefighters helmet cam.
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A month after a failure of LA’s radio dispatch system that a City Councilman feared could have put lives in danger, a city engineer reported on Friday that the problems have been fixed. Power went out to the city’s radio communications system April 18 during a test of a backup generator atop Mount Lee in…
It only comes around once every hundred years! Join us on 12/12/12 – that’s December 12, 2012 – for the SCMA Christmas Party and Meeting. We’ve got some great raffle prizes that can be yours for the price of a one dollar ticket. The major prizes this year are TWO Baofeng UV-5R Dual Band Handhelds,…
The Los Angeles County Fire Department will be celebrating the 40th anniversary of Fire Camp 8, in Malibu. Details are listed in the flyer. Don’t forget to R.S.V.P. by Wednesday of next week, if you plan to go. The date of the event will be on Saturday, June 15, 2013. This date happens to conflict…
A 39-year-old man was in custody Saturday on suspicion of stealing a Los Angeles County Fire Department lifeguard pickup truck at Dockweiler Beach. The theft occurred between 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Authorities recovered the red 2015 Toyota Tacoma Friday and arrested Jared Gowens on suspicion of felony grand theft…
I’ve been listening to a relatively new system a bit for the past several months: https://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?sid=10819 This is the California Regional Interoperable System (CRIS). I suppose this is the approximate *statewide* equivalent of the many individual *regional* interoperability systems (such as LA RICS). As I recall, LA RICS will eventually morph into FirstNet. Perhaps CRIS…
The Los Angeles Police Commission Tuesday approved a nearly $8 million contract to place 381 dashboard cameras in police cruisers in LAPD’s Operations-Central Bureau, which would more than double the number of cars currently outfitted with the technology. The additional cameras will take approximately 12 months to put in place once the contract is approved…