5-alarm fire?
Nov. 4th, 2008 03:54 am![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
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I just got called by the city of Somerville automatic system (scaring the bejeezus out of me) to tell me that there is a 5-alarm fire happening...somewhere in Somerville. It told me that if I was required to, to call the city back (I assume 'required' are people like EMTs, volunteer firefighters, etc).
Anyone else get called? Know what's going on?
Anyone else get called? Know what's going on?
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Date: 2008-11-04 08:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-04 09:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-04 09:03 am (UTC)gist: got the call too. WTF? wondering why I got the call, don't know any more, hope everyone got out okay.
Somerville Journal has the same info. we have
Date: 2008-11-04 09:04 am (UTC)Online Scanner
Date: 2008-11-04 09:04 am (UTC)http://www.somervillelocal76.org/index.cfm?zone=/unionactive/view_page.cfm&page=Live20Scanner20Feed
And yeah, the 4am robo call about a big fire scared the bejeezus outta me, too. Wonder what the story is behind this triggering a city-wide robo call in the middle of the night...
Update
Date: 2008-11-04 09:36 am (UTC)OK, back to bed. Cheers to Local 76 for providing the feed on their site so I could find out that this wasn't happening on my block or anything like that after the mildly panic-inducing robo call.
Now here's hoping sleep returns for all of us!
Re: Update
Date: 2008-11-04 09:45 am (UTC)I think Cataldo's has Somerville FD radios. Its pretty typical in MA for contract ambulances to be dispatched by the local FD and talk on their channel, and they always start an ambulance to all fires.
That said, ambulances have a different radio to call into the hospital, as well as a "company" radio to coordinate coverage for the different towns and details.
The hospital channels are probably not part of the online scanner, as they would have a lot of non-Somerville related traffic, and they would have medical details about victims that are best kept off the net.
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Date: 2008-11-04 09:04 am (UTC)It's got nothing yet, but presumably soon?
Good to know that when the Big One hits, we'll all go to LJ for info first. ;-)
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Date: 2008-11-04 09:17 am (UTC)Hahaha! So true!
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Date: 2008-11-04 09:05 am (UTC)I think it's down by Somerville High.
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Date: 2008-11-04 09:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-04 09:10 am (UTC)Current mood: awake
Third-alarm fire at Walnut and Highland?
Apparently there's a big fire down by Somerville High, with Cambridge, Medford, and Boston fire departments also responding.
But why the robo-call? I mean, I'd like the midnight robo-call if it was at least in my ward, but I live pretty far from that end of Highland.
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Date: 2008-11-04 09:32 am (UTC)Thank for posting that it's on the other side of town.
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Date: 2008-11-04 09:36 am (UTC)Oddly, I'm only a few blocks from that intersection, and I've heard nothing.
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Date: 2008-11-04 09:42 am (UTC)OoooHH! Is that what "anyone require to respond, please call ..." meant?!? That makes more sense than what I was coming up with, thinking that the Robo call would tell you at the end if your were supposed to call back (in the immediate radius or something). Why don't they put a field in their data-base indicating if a person is an emergency responder, then only call them?
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Date: 2008-11-04 09:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-04 09:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-04 09:40 am (UTC)The second call with a message I thought, hmm my house doesn't seem to be on fire, maybe a psycho killer hacked the sytem and is waiting for me to go outside, i peak outside, no, no house fire,,,,better check DSLJ and surely enough there is information.
oh well time to take my coat off and go back to bed
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Date: 2008-11-04 09:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-04 09:46 am (UTC)Please don't put a picture in my head. I'm planning to go back to sleep.
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Date: 2008-11-04 01:10 pm (UTC)This
Date: 2008-11-04 01:19 pm (UTC)With no additional info (thanks Somerville Journal) I assume it was a mistake. They surely couldn't have meant to call *everyone* in town, could they?
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Date: 2008-11-04 04:53 pm (UTC)Hmm what do you think this is, Fark.com?
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Date: 2008-11-04 01:32 pm (UTC)