Online Somerviile & Cambridge police & fire scanner

[ron_newman]

Buried in the comments of this post is a useful link to an online scanner for police and fire radio of both Somerville and Cambridge (and also Brookline, Newton, Waltham, Watertown, and Wellesley):

Wicked Local Rangecast Police and Fire Scanner

It requires Java, which takes a while to start up in my browser. You can go back in time up to three hours. This is useful if you want to know why you heard lots of sirens an hour ago.

ETA: Here's another Rangecast scanner, for Somerville, Medford, and Arlington (and also Malden, Melrose, and Winchester).

ETA2: And here's yet another, covering Somerville, Cambridge, Medford, and Arlington (and also Belmont, Lexington, and Winchester). This one's probably the most useful for Somerville residents.

ETA3: Another comment in the earlier post recommends RadioReference.com for scanner feeds.

If you know of other online scanners, especially those allowing you to go back more than three hours, please post comments here.

I've added these links to the davis_square profile page.

Comments

[koshmom.livejournal.com]

http://scanner.wickedlocal.com/north/medford.php

This link is for Medford/Malden/Arlington/Melrose/Somerville/Winchester

[ron_newman]

Thanks. Strange that Medford is not on Somerville's page. I've added your link to this post and to the profile page.

[koshmom.livejournal.com]

medford, somerville, and cambridge are on Arlington's page. http://scanner.wickedlocal.com/northwest/arlington.php

[ron_newman]

Thanks. That actually looks more useful than either of the other two.

[rosiewoodboat.livejournal.com]

It requires Java, which takes a while to start up in my browser.

*boggle*

[ron_newman]

My current default browser is Google Chrome on a Mac running Snow Leopard; Java may do better in other environments. What are you using?

[rosiewoodboat.livejournal.com]

Huh. Being that it "takes a while to start up" I just assumed you were trying to view it on your iRiver.