Is there anything of value to the recording (as a matter of public record) or is this just media sensationalism?
Unfortunately it is a public record. That doesn’t mean the media has to sensationalize it.
Nothing newsworthy. Just a normal fire scene. Yelling for more water. Yelling “man down”. Call for more ambulances and green tags (men who can go into building). Raw emotion of the fire chief. So, no, nothing we needed to hear. Lots went on at the scene that was wrong, but nothing on the radio transmissions. I listened live to the radio that night. Scary as hell. I went right to FB and KNEW it was bad. Folks pulled their posts immediately, but you could tell. By morning, it was all out there on FB. More than I would ever want to know. He was a 30+ year old father, husband, son, neighbor, friend... It was a big deal here. Still is. It will take years to get over this. He was from my department fighting a fire in the next district under another department and chief.
Realized that the paper posted and printed the dispatch info on Friday knowing the burial was today. Talk about deliberate bad timing.