Founded 1996 - Proudly Serving the SoCal Scanner Community for 30 Years
Southern California Monitoring Association
The newly constructed Port of Los Angeles Maritime Law Enforcement Training Center was put to use earlier this month for new inter-agency training sessions for California police and fire departments. The program, which featured three days of training, started July 6 and concentrated on basic boat handling and seamanship skills for first-responders in a maritime…
On Sunday, February 07, 2016 at approximately 2:00 p.m., members of the Special Enforcement Bureau – Tactical Dive Team with the assistance of the Los Angeles Port Police, the Long Beach Police Department and L.A. County Lifeguards, recovered wreckage of one plane and remains of two victims. The recovery was made approximately two miles outside…
A 47-year-old National City man was sentenced Tuesday to a year in federal prison and ordered to pay $9,606 in restitution after pleading guilty to transmitting two phony Mayday calls that sent the Coast Guard on rescue missions. Sean Berry admitted that while at his home he broadcast the phony messages on the maritime international distress and…
The fire station’s bell, followed by a dispatcher’s message, had Ventura County Fire Department Capt. Barry Parker speeding off with his crew to help a stroke victim in El Rio. Clipped to their waist belts was the department’s latest special weapon, a high-power portable radio known as the Motorola APX 6000. Each emergency responder throughout…
UPDATE: SCMA member Alex Thompson with venice311.org was kind enough to provide her photos and videos for our members to view. Los Angeles firefighters relentlessly battled an extremely hot and stubborn Major Emergency blaze at a large Venice storage facility that injured five firefighters. Just after 7:30 PM on October 25, 2014, the Los Angeles…
A portion of the “north loop” of San Diego County’s Regional Communications System (RCS) experienced a major failure when the county-wide power outage hit on September 8, 2011. This was the second major outage for the redundant 800 MHz RCS that was designed to carry public safety communications without the need for a backup system….
