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The Pasadena Police Department was an early adopter at the advent of two-way radio technology early in the last century. Boston installed the first radio sets allowing officers to communicate with a dispatcher at the station in 1934; by 1937, Pasadena had the equipment in its own squad cars. Even earlier, in 1930, Pasadena became…
There’s a lot that can go wrong on California’s 15,181 miles of highway. When major catastrophes strike and an immediate, large-scale, coordinated response from multiple agencies is needed, the California Highway Patrol calls on its fleet of Incident Command Vehicles—the mobile hive-minds of public safety.
Undercover LAPD officers and gang members fought a car-to-car gun battle in Boyle Heights on Tuesday, but no one was hurt, police said. Three of the four suspects involved in the shooting were in custody this morning, but the fourth was being sought, according to police. The gunfight occurred in the area of Cesar Chavez…
After six years, San Bernardino County is finally on its way to overhauling its antiquated public safety radio system, and will be getting a state-of-the-art digital system at a cost of more than $158 million. The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday entered into agreements with Motorola Solutions and Aviat U.S. and authorized contract expenditures of…
According to Caltrans, an average of just under 40,000 vehicles passed through Baker on Interstate 15 on a daily basis in 2014. That same year, statistics showed that some 23.5 million motorists traveled to Las Vegas. The vast majority were Southern California motorists using I-15. It’s those numbers that concern Bill Mahan, one of three…
The following is from the Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 1779. Listen to the MP3 file: Newsline Report: San Diego Power Failure. Read the transcript below.
