Puzzeling to me is how no one even bothersed to pick up the phone and let these guys know what they were heading towards.
$50,000 of communications equipment on the truck and THIS is how it’s (not) used?
This was a simplified title.The calls to command can not be heard.I ‘m sure they were told to save what they could at a certain point.
“Puzzeling to me is how no one even bothersed to pick up the phone and let these guys know what they were heading towards.
$50,000 of communications equipment on the truck and THIS is how it’s (not) used?”
Finding themselves surrounded, it was a blessing that fire fighters were not lost in that particular situation. I agree that the situation is puzzling with the communication and GIS technologies available today as well as the incident command experience one would expect to be in place given California’s history of fires. That said, Kudos to the firefighter boots-on-the-ground heroes!
Yeah, that occurred to me. They have an hour drive ahead of them and they weren’t told what they were heading into? Odd, isn’t it? Maybe Santa Rosa FD Dispatch was so busy they couldn’t even find the time to do that?