Guest guest Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 HEY ANY IDEA WHEN YOU GUYS ARE GONNA HAVE ANY OPENINGS YET? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 Yeah...but...neighboring agencies can use 10-23 and 10-24 for on scene and clear or 10-97 and 10-98. Poor dispatchers who have to try to remember all this, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 >If anyone has switched from codes to clear text, we'd love to get a list of what you've replaced the codes with. < Clear text....:-) Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 I was reading a homeland defense magazine today, and the editorials mentioned that NIMS required cleartext, but Chertoff changed his mind and now says some 10-codes used locally is okay. I don't if that's true, but that's what these letters were saying. 911:: clear text I know this subject is discussed before and I apologize for asking about it again, but could anyone please help. I thought I rememered a discussion on this group where all agencies were going to be asked to abandon their codes and go to clear text or risk losing federal grant monies. I also remember seeing posts on this group where they had decided to forego that request and would only ask agencies to use clear text when working with other agencies. Our admin is now saying that we have to go to clear text within the month, however no one has any actual paperwork or knows where the information came from. Our Undersheriff refers us to commanders who gives us a log of " I don't know " . Now they're trying to figure out how much code we can or can't use, what to turn the codes into, just general confusion now. If anyone remembers anything along these lines, or can lead me in the right direction to check, I'd appreciate it. I could be wrong and misread the posts. I've been wrong before and will be wrong again. Any help will be greatly appreciated. If anyone has switched from codes to clear text, we'd love to get a list of what you've replaced the codes with. Feel free to email off list if you'd like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 Oh I agree. I'm all for clear text - that's what we use anywho. And if you do use codes " locally " , no one is perfect, and in a multijurisdictional incident, no doubt " local " codes will be used inadvertently and everyone involved will get confused. Re: 911:: clear text Yeah...but...neighboring agencies can use 10-23 and 10-24 for on scene and clear or 10-97 and 10-98. Poor dispatchers who have to try to remember all this, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 This is from the NIMS Compliance FAQ. It was undated on 12/8/2005. Access the FAQ from :http://www.fema.gov/nims/nims_compliance.shtm. Answer ID 322 Last Updated 12/08/2005 10:56 AM NIMS: plain language vs 10 codes Question Our 911 center, which recessives and dispatches all emergency and non-emergency calls has told us that we may not use 10-codes at all. I gather we must use plain language when using NIMS ICS. Is that correct? Answer The ability to communicate when responding to an emergency or disaster and using standard or common terminology is essential to ensuring efficient, clear communication. Common terminology in communications is necessary to support mutual aid and the infusion of new responders coming to an event so they will be able to communicate with one another. All exercises that responders participate in should feature plain English commands so they can function in a multi-jurisdiction environment. Field manuals and training should be revised to reflect the plain English standard. However, in normal, day-to-day operations, those organizations that prefer to may use 10-codes. The use of plain English is required when responding to an event involving multi-jurisdictions and multi-disciplines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 Our center in an effort to be progressive is still going to implement plain English. Right now we are in a transition period, during which employees can you either system. So far there has been a lot of complaining, more so from the officers than the dispatchers. One downside is running plates. Under our 10 code system to run a plate it was 10-28. Now officers are struggling to find a way to run a plate that still sounds professional but yet is not too " wordy " . The only 10 code that we are not eliminating from our system is 10-4. Clinton County Iowa Communications Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 In a message dated 1/12/06 03:14:35 PM Eastern Standard Time, richard_l_dean_07405@... writes: BTW, anyone who hasn't taken NIMS 700 online, it is real easy It may be " real easy " but I am not doing it until I'm ordered to, and only then, on city time. Not my time. Raffa Supv. Dispatcher, FDNY Borough of Brooklyn www.FDNewYork.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 >but they and we must remember to use plain text with those who use different codes or none at all. Absolutely. Nothing new about that, and nothing the government should have to tell anyone. It was one of the first things I was taught over thirty years ago, and one of the first things that should be taught to Dispatchers today. Common sense. It goes a long way. Weintraut -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.17/227 - Release Date: 1/11/2006 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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