Dispatch call, July 6, 1968, 10:30 AM

Description: This is a digitized recording of a dictabelt, which the Indianapolis Fire Department used to record dispatch calls during the 1960s and 1970s. Following are the calls on this dictabelt: 1) General Hospital information desk calling in, Dorsey calling to ask that District 3 come to pick him up. 2) 6143 Guilford, first aid. Caller asks for no sirens. 3) Box 2118 is being worked on. 4) 6143 Guilford (again) needs an ambulance. 10:36 timestamp. 5) 1119 and 21 North Alabama, burning trash (matresses and rugs) making people sick. 6) 855 Cedar, house fire. 7) 358 West 10th, train is on fire at the junkyard. 8) 1305 Broad Ripple (Flanner and Buchanan mortuary), need oxygen for a man. Engine 31 is dispatched. 9) City-County Building, Courtroom 3, inhalater needed, Squad 3 dispatched, ambulance on the way. 10) 2324 Talbott, trash fire.
Dictabelt
Origin: 1968-07-06; 1968
Contributor(s): Rodger Birchfield;
Source: http://www.digitalindy.org/cdm/ref/collection/ffm/id/10989
Collection: Indianapolis Firefighters Museum
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/
Copyright: Copyright Undetermined
Subjects: Emergency communication systems
Fire departments--Indiana--Indianapolis
Fires--Indiana--Indianapolis
Indianapolis (Ind.). Fire Department--History

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