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| State of California - Former “California Travel Net” no longer authorized Posted: 06 Jun 2007 10:10 PM CDT State of California The Resources Agency Memorandum
The former "California Travel Net" channel is no longer authorized by the federal government to be used by California fire services as of January 01, 2007. The frequencies for the old "California Travel Net" were 168.3250 and 169.1250 MHz. The Firefighting Resources of California Organized for Potential Emergencies (FIRESCOPE) requested the State provide an emergency communications channel for ground resources enroute to/from their home unit while assigned to an incident to replace the old "California Travel Net". The new channel to be used for resources in travel status is the California Emergency Services Radio System (CESRS – pronounced "See-zurs"). CESRS has a direct simplex configuration (CESRS direct) and a repeater configuration. Both channel configurations are recommended by FIRESCOPE to be loaded into VHF radios belonging to federal, state, and local government resources. CESRS direct (the direct simplex configuration) may be utilized immediately. CESRS is being programmed in place of the old Travel net channel in all CAL-FIRE radio equipment and to be used in direct (Car to Car) mode this year.
Use of CESRS (both simplex and repeater) is authorized as follows:
Please note that CESRS is used by several other state agencies (including CCC and DGS Telecom, etc.). The channel should be monitored prior to transmitting and agencies should be courteous to other users. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| CA-MVU Inkopah Incident - Wildland fire Posted: 06 Jun 2007 04:39 PM CDT CA-MVU Inkopah Incident: CA-MVU Inkopah Incident 32-37-17 X 226.5-5-18, 2 miles south of Inkopah. County of Imperial 18:30 hours 1500 acres 0% contained. Fire started in Mexico. Minimum staffing tonight due to safety concerns and lack of threat. UPDATE(1): CA-MVU Inkopah Incident: CA-BDF Mill Creek and Del Rosa Hotshot crews enroute. UPDATE(2): CA-MVU Inkopah Incident: As of 0800 hrs. 06/06/2007 the Inkopah Fire is still about 1500+ ac. The fire is burning in three different DPA's (Unified Command). BLM-California Desert District(CDD-IC Howe), CALFIRE-Monti Vista Unit(MVU-IC Marugg) and Imperial County(IMP-IC Rouhotas) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Guests Describe California Hotel Inferno - Firehouse.com News Posted: 06 Jun 2007 04:37 PM CDT Guests Describe California Hotel Inferno - Firehouse.com News: " SAN DIEGO -- Guests staying at a Hilton described to NBC 7/39 the raging fire that woke them in the middle of the night in Sorrento Valley. Firefighters were called to the fire at a construction site in the 11000 block of Vista Sorrento Parkway just before 2 a.m., fire officials said. An unoccupied addition to the Hilton Homewood Suites hotel was engulfed in flames when they arrived. The fire did millions of dollars in damage to the hotel and the addition. Salt Lake City resident Ken Lund, who was staying overnight with his family, photographed the fire as the flames grew. 'I thought it was a nightmare,' said Lund. 'All of a sudden, I felt intense heat in the room,' said Sherry Lund. 'I woke up and our room was glowing orange.... I screamed and woke him up, and we yelled at our kids and ran. You could hear the window popping.' The fire threatened the occupied portion of the hotel and surrounding apartments, so firefighters evacuated between 350 and 400 people, San Diego Fire Department spokesman Maurice Luque said. 'The difficulties initially were just with the evacuation, because there were a number of structures that were being affected by the heat, the fire and the smoke of the fire,' Luque said. 'There were a number of people that had" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| RED FLAGS AND HIGH WINDS IN CALIFORNIA TODAY Posted: 06 Jun 2007 04:23 PM CDT Emergency Digital Information Service (EDIS):
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