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 recorded at 6:09 PM: 1. Bike registration question, dispatcher gives dates and says the Star Newspaper has more information. 2. Man asking for number to report mailbox fire. 3. Man calls for information on bicycle registration, and what closes station is to Washington and Arlington. 4. Further bicycle registration question. 5. 14th squad calls for ambulance for their current run. 6. Woman calls for fire engine to Ace Battery at 2000 block of Bluff Road, trash fire. 7. Call from Indianapolis Marine Company, grass fire at 4900 Massachusetts Avenue. Engine 20 dispatched to site. 8. Friend of Fire Fighter Shipley from out of town wants to see alarm station and wants to get a tour. 9. Ambulance needed at 1042 Cameron, unconscious man needs assistance. 10. Fire run report, grass fire needed one tank. 11. Grass fire reported at field behind property at 5104 Indianola, is coming closer to house over time. 12. At 1219 Charles Street, a heart attack reported, squad 19 inhalator dispatched. 13. Postal Inspector Hunt calls dispatcher to attempt to reach man with mail box fire question. Dispatcher gets number to relay the call to the correct person. 14. Truck 31 dispatched to meet Engine 31 at 5101 Indianola. 15. Fire at West 74th Street in Washington Township. Dictabelt |
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Origin: | 1968-07-01 |
Source: |
http://www.digitalindy.org/cdm/ref/collection/ffm/id/86721 |
Collection: |
Indianapolis Firefighters Museum |
Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/; |
Copyright: |
In Copyright; |
Subjects: |
Fire departments--Indiana--Indianapolis Emergency communication systems--Officials and employees |
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