The most common are, 5-7 (1 engine, 1 ladder response),Ħ5-2 (department message), and 5-5-5-5 (line of duty death). Some of the old telegraph bell signals are still used on the Shortened to, "The Annie Alley location is." Annie Alley of courseīeing the phonetic pronunciation of ANI-ALI. The E911 Computer the caller is at." But that phrase has been ![]() Since the inception of E911 some years ago this phrase hasīeen sneaking into our lexicon. When spoken quickly may sound like just a string of numbers. Untrained ear may not be able to decipher the announcement.įor example, the address 158-24 81 Street between 158 & 159 Avenues (alarms from central station monitoring companies), and EMS orĮMS-PD (CFR runs that are received by direct computer link).Īddresses in the borough of Queens are mostly numeric and the Verbal (reported to us by a member of the department), class-3 The battalion chief may respond at his discretion.), (discretionary response) box (Mechanical street box with a highįalse alarm rate. (mechanical street box sometimes simply called "box"), DR (street box that allows voice contact), pullbox (Via 911, direct dial, operator assist, TDD, etc.), ERS The different types of sources are: telephone Thus: borough, source of the alarm, box number, address, what theĬaller is reporting. ![]() The 10 codes are defined on a separate page.Īpproximately 60 seconds after a box is transmitted the radioĭispatcher announces the box. In this writing I will explain some typical radio terminology. The numbers mean, it could be like listening to gibberish. Until you develop an earįor the format of the announcements, and understand what all of
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