Re: [californiadisasters] Prepare for Carmageddon With Mobile Disaster Kit

The Beach Cities of the South Bay have done well with Police and Fire Mutual Aid pacts for years, despite the RCC concept having fallen apart years ago. Evidence of that were how the dispatches occurred across municipal lines during the last Independence Day Holiday weekend. The cities are called out individually despite the unique unit numbering which makes it easier for me to decode who's who on the rollout. In addition, they are always training and meeting with each other so there is an understanding and drilling of interoperability between the units. Only problem towards a unified command structure and possible unified South Bay Police and Fire Services are civic pride about who would be in charge. It's been a simmering topic for the last few years with dwindling city budgets. 73, kevin  kc6pob Where I live, 12 cities share a fire dispatch center (allowing these small- to medium-sized cities to have facilities and services comparable to large cities: top-notch dispatchers, CAD, etc.) and although the 12 fire departments are completely autonomous, they have extensive automatic aid agreements, and the cities are seldom mentioned on the radio; you'd have to know who's who to realize, say, that a dispatch of E91, E81, E34, T32, T71, BC9 involves four different cities.

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