Posted on 10/26/2003 9:52:12 PM PST by spectr17
Southern CA fires - Live Thread 10/27
Cal Fire Maps
http://wildfire.cr.usgs.gov/ca_geomac/viewer.htm
http://www.incidentcontrol.com
Live online scanner feeds for fire, cops, CDF, air attack
http://www.live365.com/stations/kb6jag
FYI, this one gives pop ups if you use it.
No pop ups on this feed
http://www.police-scanner.info/livescan.htm
Another live scanner feed.
Click on Big Bear Feed
http://www.compucations.com/nuke/html/modules.php?name=LiveScanners
another live feed for socal, Verdugo Fire Communications Center
http://verdugo.ci.glendale.ca.us/radio.html
CHP Dispatch
http://cad.chp.ca.gov/
CDF AIR CHANNELS ---------------- Red - 151.220 - Air to ground units Blue - 151.280 - Air to air Green - 151.295 - Air to air Yellow - 151.310 - Air to air Victor - 122.925 AM - Air to air for contract helicopters
List of channels for SoCal
http://www.qsl.net/ke6alv/
Get a copy of Police call for when you're mobile.
http://www.policecall.com/
San Bernardino National Forest
171.475 mhz and 172.225
123.9750 National Air Tanker Base Freq. 135.9750 Air ops 151.2200 CDF Red Air to Ground 151.2650 CDF Region 151.3100 CDF Air Tactics 6 151.3550 CDF Command Net 1 154.2650 OES White Fire 2 154.2800 OES White Fire 1 154.2950 OES White Fire 3 164.1250 Fire Camp Service Net 166.6125 "Command" Fontana area 166.8500 Air attack 167.9500 BLM Air to Ground 168.0500 NIFC Tac 1 168.0750 NIFC Tac 3 168.200 NIFC Tac 2 (Crew Net) 168.2500 BLM? "Command" 168.4000 BLM "Command" 168.6000 NIFC Tac 3 168.6250 Air Guard 169.1250 Calif. Fire Travel Net 169.0625 vehicle mechanics? 170.0000 Air to Ground Region 5 173.9125 Region 5 Tac 4 173.9625 Region 5 Tac 5 173.9875 Region 5 Tac 6 415.5500 National Air channel
HAM
145.220
Los Angeles Area
KNBC: http://www.nbc4.tv
KABC: http://www.abc7.com
KCBS: http://www.cbs2.com
KTTV: http://www.fox11la.com
KCAL: http://www.kcal.com
San Diego
http://nbcsandiego.feedroom.com/?fr_story=af0368e01c0323615f2e6f30970885b317fe905c
I have training in it - but I was in radio news. Immediate news - if permitted!!!
I'm seriously considering going back into it.
It would be a cakewalk to do it.
This is one shows EXACTLY what is wrong and what is missing from the national news coverage: detailed info.
I know that the producers will argue that its too detailed, unfamiliar, and won't hold the attention of those not from the area. But that is because they are so locked into programming to the level of a 3 year old with ADD. Too many news producers who are schooled in the infotainment/news magazine/drama and emotion school of broadcasting. Its all about flashing lots of images quickly, dramatic flames instead of precise info, shocking totals instead of precise info, pictures of women crying in front of their burned homes, instead of precise info. All have their place in news, but the actual news details are missing.
How hard would it be to put this detailed map on full screen, like a weather map, and have a reporter/anchor walk through with a pointer explaining what is happening/has happened at each location, building a complete picture of the real scope, history, pattern, and dynamics of the situation? It works with wars, weather, and even car chases. But noooo, the producers are so afraid that people will immediately switch the channel over to Baywatch. Yet if done well, the opposite would occur.
This is one case where I strongly fault Faux News Channel and their tabloid mentality. Its great that they include a conservative perspective, but their producers are from the flash and shock MTV-style entertainment mag side of the news biz.
Gabz, you were in TV news, am I off base on this?
WND editor-Publisher Joseph Farah will be on the Art Bell- George Noury *Coast to Coast* radio program tonight, discussing the Al-Quiada link to the California *wildfires*. I expect Tuesday morning's edition of WND should be quite interesting.
WND: Al-Qaida planned U.S. forest fires; FBI memo described plot to set blazes in the West
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What Huckleberry said!
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