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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Firefighters Monday extinguished a greater-alarm blaze that damaged part of an L-shaped strip mall in Sylmar, and no one was hurt. The fire was reported December 10th at 3:47 a.m. at 12777 San Fernando Road and extinguished in about two hours and 50 minutes, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. Firefighters were forced out…
San Bernardino County’s emergency dispatch center has been noted as one of the best emergency call centers worldwide. On Tuesday, the dispatch center was honored as an Accredited Center of Excellence by the International Academies of Emergency Dispatch, county fire authorities said. A ceremony was held at Fire Station 71 in Fontana to celebrate the…
A decades-old plan to renovate some and add other Los Angeles Police Department patrol stations is moving along, and according to a new report, officials will soon be taking a look at a new phase of building in the San Fernando Valley. Thomas Brennan, commander of the LAPD’s Facilities Management Division, said the last projects…
On September 8th AOR released details regarding a new multi-mode digital communications receiver. The AR-DV1 is described as a standalone SDR reciever, which does not need to be hooked up to a computer to operate. This radio will decode the following digital emission modes: DMR (MotoTrbo), dPMR (European version of FRS/GMRS), D-Star (Icom’s Amateur Radio Digital…
The U.S. Special Operations Command wants to find technology that would allow it to locate AM and FM radio signals in a specific area and then override those signals to send propaganda messages. The SOCOM solicitation, posted last month, calls for “sources to provide a radio broadcast system capable of searching for and acquiring every…
ATTENTION PATCH COLLECTORS! The Porky Show, California’s longest running police and fire patch, badge and collectibles swap meet will take place on Saturday, January 16th in Claremont from 9 AM to 3 PM. The show is put on by the Claremont Police Department raises funds the Claremont Police Explorers program. If you are interested in police…