Los Angeles City Fire Department, California Monterey Fire Department, California One of the FDs I dispatched for years! Eureka Fire Department, California City of Port Orange Fire/Rescue, Florida Charlottesville Fire Department, Virginia Charlottesville - Albemarle Rescue Squad, Virginia Ashland Fire & Rescue, Oregon Shoreline Fire Department, Washington Sedona Fire Department, Arizona Fire & Rescue - Brisbane, Queensland - Australia Ottawa Fire Department, Canada Verdugo Fire Communications Center, California Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting Work Group The UnOfficial Federal Way Fire Department Home Page, Washington Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue, Oregon Clarkes Fire & Rescue,Oregon Fyrfytr's FireWEB Fairfax County Fire & Rescue, Virginia Joe Rich Fire Rescue, Kelowna, B.C. Forest View - Gang Mills Fire Department, New York Pajaro Valley Fire Protection District, California Kennedy Space Center Fire & Rescue Company New South Wales Fire Brigade, Australia Sophisticated site! Rattlesnake Fire Protection District, Colorado Pikes Peak Fire Chaplains Polk Township (Indiana) Volunteer Fire Department Jefferson Township Fire Protection District, Kentucky McBain Fire Department, Michigan California Fire Chiefs Association, Communications Section, Northern Division St. Helena Fire Department, California Aurora Fire Department, Colorado Tokyo Fire Fighter's Web Site Oregon Firefighters Saint Remy Volunteer Fire Departmant, New York Bomberos de Costa Rica "Necessita bomberos?" The Victor Volunteer Fire Department, New York. Hutchinson Community College Fire Science Training, Kansas Grayling City and Township Fire Department, Michigan North Star Volunteer Fire Department,Alaska - EXCELLENT site! Piney Creek Volunteer Fire Department
Firefighter's Recipe Book A Firefighter's Prayer at the Sorcerer Homepage. (Interesting place to find, it, hmmm?) Toad's Fire Pad EXTENSIVE site. Set aside some time for this one... Mac's Home Page I'm honored by his special reciprocal link. :) Frank Raffa's Little Hole in the Web FIREFIGHTER - Tom Wright REALLY nice use of graphics. Ranger's Station on the WWW @ FUSE Fire & Ice Online FIREMAN_CA Undernet #Firehouse Home Page The Firehouse Ed Halcomb, Fire Captain Tokyo Axeman The Australian Firefighter Page Bill's Personal Fire House Page
Now, in case you're wondering "What does this person really know about the Fire Services, anyway?" here's my history: In 1977, I started as a 9-1-1 dispatcher in a consolidated Law Enforcement/Fire Service/EMS PSAP (Public Safety Answering Point). We took the calls and directly dispatched the personnel and equipment to those same calls, providing communications service to 11 Law Enforcement agencies, 27 Fire Districts, and 9 ambulance providers, out of two Dispatch Centers.
I was promoted to shift supervisor in 1979, and in 1988, to the position of Communications Supervisor over the entire Monterey Center. I was certified by the California Department of Forestry and Fire as an "Incident Dispatcher" in 1986. As the liaison between the Center and the agencies we served, I attended many meetings with Fire Chiefs to make sure the dispatchers were providing the best service possible.
....errrrr..... Does being married to a firefighter for a couple of years count? I can tell the difference between a "wharf-head" and a "steamer" and I know what ALL the colors of the hydrants mean!
I re-married in 1990, and we re-located to Southern California in 1991. I had the unenviable position of having to start all over again as an "entry-level" dispatcher with the CHP. And, in 1994, I was able to transfer right back to the CHP Dispatch Center in Monterey county (without my husband). So, here I am again, now working exclusively for a single agency, not 11, or 27, or 9 of them. It has made life a great deal simpler, believe me! My contacts with Allied Agencies have been most beneficial in dealing with various situations related to major incidents where we've worked very closely with the many agencies around us.
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