When I had to get up EARLY in the morning I used this. I quit my job & got rid of this as my alarm. Adding it back to the alarm as I'm going back to work for the spring-summer & Fall. I've listened to the other pagers going off & this one is my definite favorite. Stay safe out there bud #FirefightersMatter
I've never been an emergency service person of any type but one of my former buddies was a firefighter. We heard 3 or 4 explosions within 30 seconds almost 10 miles away. The way our county "announcement" system used to be set-up, they had all of the codes needed to announce every vehicle necessary for any type of situation to any degree of multiple alarms. They simply type in the details of the condition and the "pre-set" dispatch mode showed how to dispatch who and when.
the minitor V has 8 musical alerts that can be set for when the tones go off, the first one is used for the townwide tones, 2nd is for ems, 3rd is for riverton fire, 4th is pleasant valley, i also have another one in for new hartfords tone
That's because a lot of the companies around here get very little guys, especially during the day. A lot of time engines show up with driver only, or 2-3 guys if lucky, even on weekends sometimes. It's no good, shortage of guys around here.
Could it also be because your companies are small to begin with, like only have 2-4 trucks? In my town, most companies have 4-6 trucks plus 3 chief cars. We have our own issues with staffing, but we can guarantee a 6-man engine in 4-5 minutes during the day.
We just started a ride along program, literally a month before I could go for level 1, I could have been a ride along for half a year if we had introduced that earlier. It's a good thing for the newer kids, though!
I can't remember how long ago it was (more than 10 years ago)...but we had a fire with explosions at some type of heavy industrial building in one of the towns near the Delaware River over here in Burlington County NJ. It took 4 minutes of constant tones and "announcements" to call all of the equipment that was needed.
By the time he had entered the details for a 5 alarm fire at this specific location his screen was so lit up with companies to call that it took him 4 minutes of constant "tapping and announcing"..."tapping and announcing" to call every truck that was needed. I'm sure that the total number of "2 tone" pages (which is what our county still uses today) that were tapped out that day was somewhere around 12 or 13 tones between all the ladders and tankers and ambulances and fire police etc...
I have an old Minitor 1 that still works great! I dropped it in a bucket of water a few times and it was completely submerged but after it dried out, it still worked! I don't run calls anymore but I still get excited when it goes off. A lot of companies have now switched over to only alpha pagers but some use minitors or both.
yea, no kidding. fires usually take a long time to run throught them all, especially in a rural area, that is why there is the pre-alert for all fires.
It depends on how many companies are being toned out, if it’s only one company, 1 set of tones, 2 companies, you will hear a total of 4 different pitched tones, basically it’s the first tone, then the second, the second usually is a higher pitch than the first tone, then another tone, then the 4th tone, again, the second tone in a set of tones is usually higher pitched EDIT: I was re-reading my comment, and I realized that it made no sense to me when I read it, it’s hard for me to explain this kind of stuff, usually it’s hard for me to explain most stuff involving firefighting, that’s why they say it’s a job few understand
Sounds like Litchfield County Dispatch in northwestern CT. I randomly clicked on this video and immediately recognized the dispatcher's voice and dispatched departments.
exactly...out here there are very small departments, we need the help. usually nepaug sends 1 or 2 engines and the tanker, barkhamsted east sends a tanker, riverton a tanker, pine meadow an engine, new hartford 2 engines and a tanker sometimes the rescue, and pleasant valley sends the rit team
Holy long pager tones!! They are so long you've probably already put out the fire, gone home, taken a shower and gotten 8 hours of sleep before that thing stops beeping!!
yeah...they should have used another district tone instead of toning them out individually...they can do it with like 6 tones, new hartford district, barkhamsted district, new hartford siren, nepaug siren, barkhamsted siren, new hartford ambulance
@Icandrum2 tones are what dispatch centers use to page fire departments. Each fire dept has two tones. These could be high to low, low to high, any pitch, anything. In some cases, each piece of apparatus has their own tones so fire depts know which apparatus to take on the call. The vast majority volunteer, poc, and some career firefighters have pagers, which you see in the video. These are programmed to "alert" when their fire depts tones come through.
This way if we had what started as a 2 alarm fire in the largest hospital in the county the screen at the dispatch center showed the dispatcher EXACTLY who to page for each additional alarm. This way if any incident of any kind went to 6 alarms less than 2 minutes after it was first "tapped out" the dispatcher could keep tapping out and announcing until everything that was needed was called.
Each station/dispatch/whatever you want to call it have different tones for different things. But sometimes they can be the same, I've heard none of those tones at my station so.
@Timmeh98837 yeah they do things kinda differently here, they tone out each call twice, they activate the pagers, dispatch it, then they tone it out again with the siren tones too...this is the 2nd activation
@Raptor05121 in my area when a alarm goes out on a structure' fire many fire departments get called out at once and they all have different sounding tunes. so the they all have to have their tunes heard it is called a auto still
@nhfdcadet Man, yall got it made compared to around here. They tone out Chiefs, then 2 paid stations, and 3 volunteer stations before they dispatch the call..
Well level 1 lets us go on calls and help out the regular members, we are allowed to set up hydrants and attack lines and such. Level 2 lets us do more, not sure what specifically.
That reminds me of Randy p taking Marcus Davis to the Carinville fire house during when the bad guy was burning 🔥 like my neighbor Carl and for the medical calls
yeah here we get a "new hartford fire, new hartford ambulance, nepaug fire, pine meadow fire, barkhamsted east fire, riverton fire, pleasant valley fire, standby for dispatch, 220 ratlum rd"
When we had the explosion situation I mentioned above...the fire "tap-out" dispatcher had all of the "tap out" codes for every company necessary to fight a 5 alarm fire less than 2 minutes after he received the first call. He simply sat at his desk and entered into the system the details of a 5 alarm fire at this location (which may have started as a 2 alarm fire 30 seconds earlier) and he could just update his screen at will.
well its kinda complicated...im on 1 fd and 1 ambulance, but in the town of barkhamsted we have 3 departments and i can respond with any of the 3 since im a member of the fire district, and for new hartford i have the fire tones in there since i am on the ambulance and i like to know what is going on if there is a possibility they might call us
Not true, most departments, or well organized departments have a "pre-amp" alert where a minor description is given. For us, it sounds like: "Soandso City, Structure Fire, 123 Fake Street." So if you live in or near that city, you know you're going, so start towards the station, or if you're at the station - Fire up the engine! You're going! A lot of the engines around here already go on scene at the end of the tones.
whenever there is a call LCD will do a pre dispatch announcement (XXX fire XXX ambulance etc. standby for dispatch 123 any street) also they put the tones out and dispatch it twice so if i dont catch the first one i get the second one
@Raptor05121 at the time i was a member of 2 different fire districts and the ambulance, one of the districts allowed us to ride out with any of the 3 departments within it, so i had their tones in, as well as the other district and the ambulance.
I have mine set to county or scan and alert. Then the tones drop and I heard everyone get dispatched out. If I have it on alert then as soon as I hear it go off i'd be out the door.
yeah that does suck. i been fightin fire sence i was 16 years old and started driving at 17. and made captain at 20. but my dad was fire chief so i got more pull then some peole lol..
@sirhcdeer: I personally would rather have the audio then written text, it makes it a hell of alot easier. I'd rather listen to it while getting ready then have to read it.
Its been 15 years and I can still remember the exact tone for our station
Your department's tones sound just like ours. I almost got up and ran out the door.
same i thought mine was going off for my three companies
Ours don't Evan sound like that
Lol
I've done the same thing lol
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When I had to get up EARLY in the morning I used this. I quit my job & got rid of this as my alarm. Adding it back to the alarm as I'm going back to work for the spring-summer & Fall. I've listened to the other pagers going off & this one is my definite favorite. Stay safe out there bud #FirefightersMatter
I've never been an emergency service person of any type but one of my former buddies was a firefighter. We heard 3 or 4 explosions within 30 seconds almost 10 miles away.
The way our county "announcement" system used to be set-up, they had all of the codes needed to announce every vehicle necessary for any type of situation to any degree of multiple alarms.
They simply type in the details of the condition and the "pre-set" dispatch mode showed how to dispatch who and when.
the minitor V has 8 musical alerts that can be set for when the tones go off, the first one is used for the townwide tones, 2nd is for ems, 3rd is for riverton fire, 4th is pleasant valley, i also have another one in for new hartfords tone
That's a LOT of companies! Where I'm from, only 2 or 3 companies go for a structure fire.
That's because a lot of the companies around here get very little guys, especially during the day. A lot of time engines show up with driver only, or 2-3 guys if lucky, even on weekends sometimes. It's no good, shortage of guys around here.
Could it also be because your companies are small to begin with, like only have 2-4 trucks? In my town, most companies have 4-6 trucks plus 3 chief cars. We have our own issues with staffing, but we can guarantee a 6-man engine in 4-5 minutes during the day.
No, all of our stations have at least 5-6 trucks. And then responding officers (Chiefs, Asst. Chiefs, Capts., Lt, etc.)
Oh. Looks like I was mistaken...
Alex Q did they say hartford fire?
lol I tricked my dad into thinking tones where droping😂😂
Nooooo😂😂
You are not funny
@@elrektm Agreed.
Thats not cool at all
Not funny ;-;
We just started a ride along program, literally a month before I could go for level 1, I could have been a ride along for half a year if we had introduced that earlier. It's a good thing for the newer kids, though!
San Francisco CA has the one of the best Fire Department teams in the entire US and no excuses
I can't remember how long ago it was (more than 10 years ago)...but we had a fire with explosions at some type of heavy industrial building in one of the towns near the Delaware River over here in Burlington County NJ. It took 4 minutes of constant tones and "announcements" to call all of the equipment that was needed.
By the time he had entered the details for a 5 alarm fire at this specific location his screen was so lit up with companies to call that it took him 4 minutes of constant "tapping and announcing"..."tapping and announcing" to call every truck that was needed.
I'm sure that the total number of "2 tone" pages (which is what our county still uses today) that were tapped out that day was somewhere around 12 or 13 tones between all the ladders and tankers and ambulances and fire police etc...
I have an old Minitor 1 that still works great! I dropped it in a bucket of water a few times and it was completely submerged but after it dried out, it still worked! I don't run calls anymore but I still get excited when it goes off. A lot of companies have now switched over to only alpha pagers but some use minitors or both.
I love being a junior we get to roll out on the rigs whenever depending on the call
So it takes 55 seconds for the tones to finish and the message to finally play out for your guys? Damn lol
yea, no kidding. fires usually take a long time to run throught them all, especially in a rural area, that is why there is the pre-alert for all fires.
It depends on how many companies are being toned out, if it’s only one company, 1 set of tones, 2 companies, you will hear a total of 4 different pitched tones, basically it’s the first tone, then the second, the second usually is a higher pitch than the first tone, then another tone, then the 4th tone, again, the second tone in a set of tones is usually higher pitched
EDIT: I was re-reading my comment, and I realized that it made no sense to me when I read it, it’s hard for me to explain this kind of stuff, usually it’s hard for me to explain most stuff involving firefighting, that’s why they say it’s a job few understand
As soon my fire department hear there town drop they go running and usually had there light and siren on going to the call
@@geannavallango7217 yea both of mine do the same
lmfao i just got rick rolled by clicking on the icon on the bottom right of the screen lol
@chadorock how do u know that that wasnt the second time the pager was going off? around my area they set them off twice
Ah the adrenaline starts going when you get past the first two or three tones.... I love it.
Sounds like Litchfield County Dispatch in northwestern CT. I randomly clicked on this video and immediately recognized the dispatcher's voice and dispatched departments.
0:16 that almost sounds like a PASS alarm
Best and worst sounds of any volly. Great way to ruin a meal or a great way to get you out of a date.
Wow, it's kind of weird to hear all of those tones. Thank goodness all of our fire stations are incorporated into one county.
exactly...out here there are very small departments, we need the help. usually nepaug sends 1 or 2 engines and the tanker, barkhamsted east sends a tanker, riverton a tanker, pine meadow an engine, new hartford 2 engines and a tanker sometimes the rescue, and pleasant valley sends the rit team
I like the first sound the Minitor makes, that bee-beeleeleebeeleelee
Holy long pager tones!! They are so long you've probably already put out the fire, gone home, taken a shower and gotten 8 hours of sleep before that thing stops beeping!!
Sounds like you have R2D2 doing your dispatching!
yeah...they should have used another district tone instead of toning them out individually...they can do it with like 6 tones, new hartford district, barkhamsted district, new hartford siren, nepaug siren, barkhamsted siren, new hartford ambulance
Must be one hell of a fire to send out that many tones.
I think they toned out 7 or 8 departments. I couldn't tell. Hope it went well!
0:11 the pager tone in the game emergenyc for the county map
@Icandrum2 tones are what dispatch centers use to page fire departments. Each fire dept has two tones. These could be high to low, low to high, any pitch, anything. In some cases, each piece of apparatus has their own tones so fire depts know which apparatus to take on the call. The vast majority volunteer, poc, and some career firefighters have pagers, which you see in the video. These are programmed to "alert" when their fire depts tones come through.
Roanoke County Fire upgraded their dispatch systems from the one in the late 1980's to 90's. Our old dispatch FCC call sign was KWX 478
This way if we had what started as a 2 alarm fire in the largest hospital in the county the screen at the dispatch center showed the dispatcher EXACTLY who to page for each additional alarm. This way if any incident of any kind went to 6 alarms less than 2 minutes after it was first "tapped out" the dispatcher could keep tapping out and announcing until everything that was needed was called.
I listened to this and when the alert tone went out, my heart skipped! I thought it was my pager!
Each station/dispatch/whatever you want to call it have different tones for different things. But sometimes they can be the same, I've heard none of those tones at my station so.
@Timmeh98837 yeah they do things kinda differently here, they tone out each call twice, they activate the pagers, dispatch it, then they tone it out again with the siren tones too...this is the 2nd activation
@Raptor05121 in my area when a alarm goes out on a structure' fire many fire departments get called out at once and they all have different sounding tunes. so the they all have to have their tunes heard it is called a auto still
how many different departments are you on? haha
Sounded like 3 or 4
Once my pager went off right into firefighter mode... Even at 2am
damn...the structure has already hit the gorund by the time dispatch gets done paging the fire depts.
thats what an ALL CALL tone is fore
I was going to try to get my dad and then I realize that he knows every single tone lol
your guys' dispatch takes for ever lol ours just goes department tones call tones ( 1 beep medical, 2 beps, MVA, 3-4 beeps fire/mutual aid) then dispatch
This is why I don't keep my pager on County Dispatch. Mine is on A or B unless I miss a call, When it is on D.
i hate it wen my pager goes off like this... thank god it happens once in a great while
@nhfdcadet Man, yall got it made compared to around here. They tone out Chiefs, then 2 paid stations, and 3 volunteer stations before they dispatch the call..
new hartford has their own separate repeater so they put a tone off on the repeater and on direct
Dang! By the time the tones are done you won't have a house left!
Well, you don't have to wait for all of them. When yours hits, GO!
Well level 1 lets us go on calls and help out the regular members, we are allowed to set up hydrants and attack lines and such. Level 2 lets us do more, not sure what specifically.
That reminds me of Randy p taking Marcus Davis to the Carinville fire house during when the bad guy was burning 🔥 like my neighbor Carl and for the medical calls
Ours sounds like a siren its a simple quick 4 second burst.... yours took FOREVER
man it takes a long time for yours to tone
out
its multiple departments being dispatched twice.
oh never herd of that. sorry then. dang that must suck bad. im happy it wasnt like that when i was that age.
i have 8 tones in it and the minitor V has 8 musical alerts in addition to the standard and continuous alert
yeah here we get a "new hartford fire, new hartford ambulance, nepaug fire, pine meadow fire, barkhamsted east fire, riverton fire, pleasant valley fire, standby for dispatch, 220 ratlum rd"
what frequency does this pager use? I'd maybe use one of these as an audio link or even tap the volume control and make a mini amp.
At first I was like that looks like my old pager then I realized the video is 11 years old.
ok the tones just took a min to finish , and so the fire just doubled in size. great.
When we had the explosion situation I mentioned above...the fire "tap-out" dispatcher had all of the "tap out" codes for every company necessary to fight a 5 alarm fire less than 2 minutes after he received the first call.
He simply sat at his desk and entered into the system the details of a 5 alarm fire at this location (which may have started as a 2 alarm fire 30 seconds earlier) and he could just update his screen at will.
nope, they held us in quarters pretty much right away
Such a sweet sound...
holy shit dude my pager tones twice then the dispatcher calls. usually im in t he car b4 i even hear someone talking though
@cstoner15 By the time them tones is done I'm standing at the front door hose in hand waitin for water !!
the building already burnt down by time they actually get the audible lol
@mrbobie93 rural, no hydrants, thats mainly y we have so much mutual aid, its more for tankers than anything
yea ours are all dispatched by Litchfield County Dispatch so it makes it easier for mutual aid
well its kinda complicated...im on 1 fd and 1 ambulance, but in the town of barkhamsted we have 3 departments and i can respond with any of the 3 since im a member of the fire district, and for new hartford i have the fire tones in there since i am on the ambulance and i like to know what is going on if there is a possibility they might call us
we havent had one for almost exactly a year
how did you know the pager was about to go off? maybe you started the fire??! da da dunnnn
@bigmark555111 the minitor 2 is by far the best pager EVER made
all those tones are for all the company's being dispatched the more tones the more stations
Not usually lol. farthest into CT we go is Sharon...were in NY
So many flashbacks
Not true, most departments, or well organized departments have a "pre-amp" alert where a minor description is given. For us, it sounds like:
"Soandso City, Structure Fire, 123 Fake Street."
So if you live in or near that city, you know you're going, so start towards the station, or if you're at the station - Fire up the engine! You're going!
A lot of the engines around here already go on scene at the end of the tones.
This shit gives me ptsd. Long story short I had a very stressful and terrifying call that scared me.
whenever there is a call LCD will do a pre dispatch announcement (XXX fire XXX ambulance etc. standby for dispatch 123 any street) also they put the tones out and dispatch it twice so if i dont catch the first one i get the second one
@Raptor05121 at the time i was a member of 2 different fire districts and the ambulance, one of the districts allowed us to ride out with any of the 3 departments within it, so i had their tones in, as well as the other district and the ambulance.
we have the same last name lol and its spelled the right way lol good vid
i guess I can understand this if it was park rapids MN. it would give them time to finish their drinks. TRUTH
@cstoner15 haha! gotta love it eh, Your right 50 seconds worth of tones, were usually at the hall by then!
if the dispatcher used the district tones like he should have it woulda been a lot shorter
Signal 50...that's what my town uses in Connecticut...
9 tones wow. sounds like 5 different fd's.
haha very funy annotation there
signal 50 in Suffolk (LI,NY) is DOA for us this is a Signal 13
I have mine set to county or scan and alert. Then the tones drop and I heard everyone get dispatched out. If I have it on alert then as soon as I hear it go off i'd be out the door.
yeah that does suck. i been fightin fire sence i was 16 years old and started driving at 17. and made captain at 20. but my dad was fire chief so i got more pull then some peole lol..
Thats alarm are in emergeNYC
yeah its a bit thicker...height and width are the same as the 4 tho
jeez how many stations are they getting for a structure fire??? or is it a large building
@sirhcdeer: I personally would rather have the audio then written text, it makes it a hell of alot easier. I'd rather listen to it while getting ready then have to read it.
Montgomery County in EmergNYC!
nice vid im gonna favorite it
@tripovermyego im pretty sure they are all the same shortness and wideness
while the times sound for 5 minutes the building has burned down already hahahaha
@FFfeiter they give a pre dispatch announcement before they set the tones off, usually by then i am out the door
0:26 imagine hearing that while you’re in the shower or on the John
It’s happened to me before while using the toilet, had a 2 vehicle 10-46.
or in church, school
thats the OH SHIT tone list.
@nhfdcadet
any way to play music thru this? I know it may sound terrible but is it possible, like a short range transmitter on 155.1075Mhz?
had a small one on superbowl sunday but it wasnt that bad
Whatevers burning will be fully involved by the time they are done dispatching