Dispatch call, September 4, 1969, time unknown

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. Heart attack at 831 South State Street, request for inhalator. 2. Wife calling for the number of station ten, needed to contact firefighter husband. 3. Off duty fireman calling to report car on fire behind L. S. Ayers warehouse at 23rd and Schofield. Engine 23 dispatched. 4. Call for engine 22 battery replacement. 5. Call from a Mr. Clapphard at Marsview Christian Church, his son has been hit in an automobile accident, requesting medical help. Operator connected caller to wrong dispatcher. 6. Call for dispatch of police car to scene of auto accident at 1200 Madison Avenue. 7. Policeman wants to meet at station 3 to hand over �hood� suspects. 8. Woman calling for information on recent explosion at her house at 3348 Forest Manor, dispatcher says he will send engine ten to assist. 9. Caller says he smells heavy gas odor at 2925 North LaSalle Street. 10. Button test for all stations announced. 11. 419 East 47th street, heart attack with inhalator dispatched. 12. Firefighter calling requesting oxygen tank refills when he returned to the station. 13. Brigadier Roland of the Salvation Army calling about police and firefighter activity in the North Meridian area.
Dictabelt
Source: http://www.digitalindy.org/cdm/ref/collection/ffm/id/86740
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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