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Naming his third fire chief in five years, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa today nominated Interim Los Angeles Fire Chief Brian Cummings to take over the permanent post. “As a native Angeleno, it always gives me a sense of pride to appoint someone who has similar experiences and has worked their way up,” Villaraigosa said at news…
Do public safety personnel have the authority to stop people from taking photos at emergency scenes? Does it matter whether the filming is being done by the media or ordinary citizens? Perhaps as a result of the wide spread use of digital and cellphone cameras, these questions continue to resurface time and time again. Last…
Traffic was backed up Friday in the Sepulveda Pass after a NBC4 News truck caught fire on the 405 Freeway. NBC photographer Joel Cooke, who was the only person in the vehicle, was traveling northbound on the 405 Freeway near the Getty Center when the vehicle caught fire.
A California ham has been cited for operating mobile using a 2 meter radio installed in his car and this could become a test case to find out whether the restrictive anti-cellphone law can be used against other two-way radio users. According to a note from Dick McKay, K6VGP, a member of the Disaster Amateur…
Hurricane Irene made landfall over eastern North Carolina’s Outer Banks Aug. 27 and moved along southeastern Virginia. It made its second landfall in New Jersey and then made a third landfall as a tropical storm in New York. As of Tuesday afternoon, a total of 2.85 million people were without power, according to the Department…
The earthquake that struck Virginia on Tuesday, Aug. 23, and was felt from New York City to the Carolinas, was followed by cellular network congestion — thus spurring officials to call for a national broadband network dedicated to public safety. People seeking information flooded 911 call centers and cellular networks following the magnitude 5.8 earthquake…
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…
Energy released from solar plasma blasts will reach Earth throughout Friday and Saturday, potentially disrupting communications and electrical grids, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The explosion on the sun’s surface could affect precision satellite systems such as GPS and high-frequency radio waves, which airlines use for communication.
In an email posted on the OrangeCountyScan Yahoo Group today, it was reported that the CHP is now using a 700 MHz extender frequency in Orange County. The vehicle repeater is on 769.4375 NAC DB2. The poster, calif4nian, also reported the following information: The black handheld radio, like the red and yellow ones here (https://www.efjohnson.com/products/portables/5100es)…
