Dispatch call, March 3, 1970
| 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) Report on a mattress fire. 2) Flaherty informs dispatcher that the box at 17th and Central is not working. 3) Report on house fire at 1200 W 21st St. 4) Sick woman at 314 W 10th St. 5) Injured child at 1558 N College, Apt 4. 6) Caller concerned about how to tell if a fire near furnace is all the way out. 7) Smoldering pile at 2633 N Ritter. 8) Caller at 5767 N Pennsylvania reports a fire in a house two doors south of him, neighbors are out of town. Recording ends at 2:08 PM. Dispatcher: White. Dictabelt |
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| Origin: | 1970-03-03 |
| Source: |
http://www.digitalindy.org/cdm/ref/collection/ffm/id/90905 |
| Collection: |
Indianapolis Firefighters Museum |
| Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/; |
| Copyright: |
Copyright Undetermined |
| Subjects: |
Emergency communication systems Fire departments--Indiana--Indianapolis Fires--Indiana--Indianapolis Indianapolis (Ind.). Fire Department--History |
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