RFSTUF

Incident Communications
07.06.2010 by Andrew M. Seybold
...There is a type of voice communications that enables public safety personnel to communicate among themselves even when they are out of range of a cell site or a tower site, and it is vital to the way in which public safety personnel on the scene of an incident operate. Using the same mall as an example, once the fire department and EMS personnel arrive, they switch their radios off of the dispatch channel to a channel that provides the ability for them to talk to each other over short distances. These voice transmissions are heard by all personnel at the incident. (To be clear, fire and EMS personnel can talk to each other, and the police, usually on another one or more channels, can talk to each other.) ...