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: Male caller requesting to talk to Jack, dispatcher identified as John; Male caller reporting someone with a possible case of appendicitis at 1733 N. Livingston, Engine 9 dispatched at 2:00pm; Injured man reported at 3237 Gerrard, at 2:20pm; Telephone worker calling about taking the box out at 542; Female caller requesting a rescue squad at 2705 N. Capital for a sick man, ambulance dispatched; Female caller reporting a truck fire at 1049 N. Tremont, Engine 9 dispatched at 2:33pm; Engine 33 requesting location of the ambulance, ambulance located at Allen Dr. and 34th St. four blocks past Gerrard ; Female caller reporting an alley fire at 1532 College; Call from IMPD reporting that he had a man in the hit and run office, E112 (first floor of the City County building) who has information about the Molotov cocktails tossed over at Dorman and Michigan, the man has the gas can and other property found there; Bob Hart? Calling asking what the broadcasting frequency was, 153.77, asking how the day was going, Dispatcher identified as Short?; Talk about District 10? Asking if someone was ok, mention of Black Panther’s; Several females callers reporting the fire hydrant as on and spraying water at Ray and Arbor Ave., dispatch called the water company; Female caller reporting someone having a heart attack at 2402 Kenmore Rd, Engine 24 dispatched at 4:15pm; Female caller reporting a burning smell at 51 N. Holmes Ave., Engine 18 dispatched at 4:23pm; |
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Origin: | 1969-06-07; 1969-06; 1969 |
Source: |
http://www.digitalindy.org/cdm/ref/collection/ffm/id/87465 |
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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