Dispatch call, June 6, 1969, around 10:20 PM

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: Possible heart attack at 5732 Winston Dr. Engine 24 dispatched at 9:54pm; Dispatcher, England to various Chiefs, including Commons, Bate, Van Sant, Haley?, that there is looting is starting on Indiana Avenue. Same procedures to be used as in the Code 4, leave the buggy at the police, go in with the apparatus.; Call to the ambulance division to tell them the ambulance going to Winston Dr. will have to go in off of Arlington.; 3161 N. New Jersey little boy having an asthma attack, told to used caution because the it is a colored boy, and police will be sent in ahead.; Blockades are being set up at West and Indiana, and 10th and Indiana.; Engine 1, Engine 6, Truck 1, District 1 dispatched to 770 Indiana Ave. told to meet the police at Indiana and West. Ordered not to go into the fire without the police, and not to use red lights and sirens. Dispatched at 10:20pm.; Charlie talking to unknown caller about rioting beginning. Charlie mentions the police are already on a Code 4, fire is just waiting for a Code 4 for them.; Man calling requesting what hospital the man picked up on Massachusetts Avenue was sent.; Male caller reporting a fire at 7104 N. Mitchner. Dispatch called Warren Township.; Charlie called police to see if they needed to be in a Code 4 too. Mentioned that arrests would be made that evening. Advised same as last night. All stations on Code 4 at 10:38pm. Task Forces advised to use telephone not radio to report in.; Dictabelt
Origin:	1969-06-06; 1969-06; 1969
Source:	http://www.digitalindy.org/cdm/ref/collection/ffm/id/87418
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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