Gotum, you are mistaken again, especially re: water rescues, unless something has changed since I retired a few months back.
NCPD used to notify Firecom for every friggin' thing that happened on the water, including every friggin disabled boat, all summer long the last several years. It became totally absurd having to call every dept. on the north and south shores that
NCPD was notifying of a "boater in distress" (like out of gas, stalled engine, etc) and the local depts became disgusted at
NCPD notifying them of that kind of nonsense. But the
NCPD would insist they were just "following the procedure." Glad I'm retired and don't have to participate in all that idiocy anymore..............
And on the call for the odor making people sick. Are you saying the
PD didn't even send an ambulance, just an RMP. That's hard to believe. Agreed
FD should also have been sent, but I think the
PD would send an ambulance if people are reported sick, again unless a dispatcher goofed up and didn't follow their own procedures.
And 6912, re: the accident/overpass incident, try to find out if your own dispatcher relayed to your responding units all the info he was given . I'm not saying he didn't (I didn't hear the call) But there have been lots of incidents over the years where some local dept's dispatchers did not tell their units all the details that they were given by Firecom. Or they gave the details different than Firecom told them. (Like saying 14 was
at scene requesting when Firecom said 14 was
responding. You really don't know what happened unless you hear all the tapes of all radio and phone traffic involved in the incident. Things often turn out to be different than ya' think from listening to the scanner.