Where firefighters come to talk training

What does Fire Ground mean

I am thinking about going into the fire dept. and know some things about it. I was listening to the scanner the other day and a fire dept called into dispatch and said switching to fire ground. I was wondering what does that mean exactly.

▶ Reply to This

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Ricky Teter on April 29, 2009 at 9:11am

It is just another operating channel on their radio system. Many departments will switch to an operating channel on their radios when they are working at an incident. By switching to a different channel they do not have radio traffic from other incidents interfering with their operations, nor are they interfering with the dispatching of additional runs. Hope this answers your question.

▶ Reply

▶ Reply to Discussion

RSS

Welcome to
Fire Engineering Training Community

Sign Up
or Sign In

Or sign in with:

Policy Page

PLEASE NOTE

The login above DOES NOT provide access to Fire Engineering magazine archives. Please go here for our archives.

CONTRIBUTORS NOTE

Our contributors' posts are not vetted by the Fire Engineering technical board, and reflect the views and opinions of the individual authors. Anyone is welcome to participate.

For vetted content, please go to www.fireengineering.com/issues.

We are excited to have you participate in our discussions and interactive forums. Before you begin posting, please take a moment to read our community policy page.

Be Alert for Spam
We actively monitor the community for spam, however some does slip through. Please use common sense and caution when clicking links. If you suspect you've been hit by spam, e-mail peter.prochilo@clarionevents.com.