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: Charlie talking to a chief. First about John McIntire? Having an injury, cut forehead, on truck 34 and needing to go to a hospital. Charlie talks about planning to call Chief Van Sant about the helicopter. Told they were going to get a Motorola just like the police radio. Charlie talking about the possibility of having a bad night like the previous night.; 431 Madison Ave. 1st Floor trouble breathing. Squad 17 dispatched at 8:17pm. Address not found; Male caller reporting a man in bad shape next to Harris Liquor Store at 431 Massachusetts Ave. Squad 7 dispatched 8:25pm. Request for an ambulance at 8:31pm; Report of a fire at Raymond and Shelby, barricades set on fire. Engine 29 dispatched at 8:34pm.; 1925 Holloway injured man. 8:47pm; Bill to Charlie, asking if the office calls men in on a Code 4 or if the station calls.; Request for a rescue squad on Cromer St. 1100 for a kid laying, child struck by a car, in the street.; Engine 26 dispatched at 9:07; Multiple calls of a house fire at the 800 Blake. Asked if police were on the scene. Engine 1, Engine 6, Truck 1, District 1 dispatched at 9:09pm.; Female caller calling back to get help with a cat? on the roof, needing the Humane Society Number 291-4476.; Male caller reporting an unconscious woman at 1606 S. Dawson. Squad 17 dispatched at 9:29pm.; Female caller reporting a man having a heart attack at 5732 Winston Dr. Engine 24 dispatched at 9:54pm; Call for Chief Commons.; Multiple reports of a vacant house on fire at Pine St. and Fletcher. Engine 3, Engine 11, Truck 15, District 4 dispatched at 9:58pm.; Dictabelt |
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Origin: | 1969-06-06; 1969-06; 1969 |
Source: |
http://www.digitalindy.org/cdm/ref/collection/ffm/id/87437 |
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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