Prescott Arizona Scanners

wildland fire display

well you folks missed out on a great event

myself and jim my co mod showed up at 1PM and didn't leave till 3

if someone wants a list of all who were there i can type it up

but a quick run down of who we talked with

1ST was the search and rescue unit curt kb6sss was manning the unit
had a nice chat with him and got to look at everything they had in there

2nd was the ARES/ham radio van and saw lloyd wa6zzj and met mary ab7nk
nice chat with both of them got to see a couple new radios in there

3rd was the mobile command posse unit met a couple nice guys in there
got the grand tour

they had radios going and the flir unit pointing toward the crowd of ppl

4th lifeline ambulance had an informative chat with ethan about there
radio system
they do have there simplex tac freqs programmed in and want to use
them in the future
the reason they don't is when dispatch calls or anyone on the dispatch
freq it reverts back on there priority
so in the future it might be handy to have those in to listen

chino valley had brush 61 type 3 there i'm guessing no markings on it

forest service had some vehicles there

water tender 51 was there quite a big truck when your up close to that

prescott had there new cafs "compressed air foam supresssion" unit there

engine 71

ladder 72

a few ppl from wildland fire groups one guy was from texas

some old fire engines prescott and congress

cyfd had there flame scheme truck out there and we were counting on
how many $200 leds were on there $1200 for just a parade truck

went up top and they had a 20 minute video on the indian fire saw part
of that and it was worth going there just to see the video of water
and slurry drops

so it was well worth going there if they have it next year

didn't hear anyone on 146.400 or frs ch 1 462.5625
gave out calls saw a couple ppl with frs and uniden scannners but no
one talking

Jerry

posted by Jerry @ 5:41 PM