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: Several callers, including Wayne Fire Department, reporting a fire hydrant on at Ray and Arbor Ave., water company notified; Les Goodey? reporting that they can’t keep the woman at 4402 N. Kenmore Rd. conscious; Male caller reporting a car fire at 1877 S. East St., Engine 29 dispatched at 4:59pm; Banter about eating dinner; Male caller requesting a pool to be filled up, told to call the water company; ADT call to send the test in; Inquiry about District 2 and Station in; Don? Philips calling for England, dispatcher available identified as Short, report of a man up at the 22s from a baking company on Winthrop with labor problems was anticipating trouble, requesting police if there is trouble reported.; Several prank calls; Dispatch called water company for the second time about the hydrant at Ray and Arbor, concerned that callers were tying up their lines, also requested information about a hydrant plug being out on East St. 50 ft south of the Bell railroad?; Report of a stolen car, transferred to police; 1343 W. 34th man reported injured hand with bleeding, Squad 14 dispatched at 5:56pm; Male caller reporting a car fire at the Standard Filling Station at 30th and Lafayette Rd. , dispatched Engine 30 at 5:59pm.; American Bakery’s at 1531 E. Washington St., reporting sprinkler system back in service.; Female caller requesting assistance at 2015 N. Delaware where kids had a stick with rags around it on fire in the upstairs of a house where the kids were on the roof. Request for a district car, jail car, and arson squad; Male caller requesting first aid assistance at 824 Chadwick Street for a sick boy, Squad 17 dispatched at 6:10pm; Male caller reporting having found a stolen car at Worchester, transferred to the police department.; |
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Origin: | 1969-06-07; 1969-06; 1969 |
Source: |
http://www.digitalindy.org/cdm/ref/collection/ffm/id/87494 |
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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