Posted on Friday, 26th February 2010 by Patrick Dorwin
MKEScan is reporting that the Milwaukee Fire Department may begin installing the OpenSky radio system. This is the same system that Milwaukee police officers have been complaining about since it was forced on them. A system that doesn’t work when they need it most. Now city leadership is going to send our Fire Fighters into burning buildings with radios that don’t work inside buildings…
This $17+ million boondoggle must be scrapped before it gets someone killed!
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February 26th, 2010 at 1:25 pm
Milwaukee Fire Chief said they are working with Harris to fix problems.
So why not wait until Milwaukee Police reports problems are fixed?
Once the Fire Department installs the radios, I bet everyone a fish fry that MFD will say “We spent to much money and can’t dump the radios now”
Scroll down to 091395 and click Video, fast forward to 79:40 Dudzik will mention radios.
http://milwaukee.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=90791&GUID=F5085959-74BE-406F-8A84-1502AD01A3E7&Options=info|&Search=#
February 26th, 2010 at 2:06 pm
On wednesday evening, channel 2 (district 4) completely failed for about 30-45 minutes.
February 26th, 2010 at 10:18 pm
…and Tom Barrett’s leadership on this issue is where? The media just gives him a free pass.
February 26th, 2010 at 10:44 pm
Tommy couldn’t be reached for comment as he was at SIX FLAGS practicing his. WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE for the high speed rail.
February 27th, 2010 at 1:33 am
I’m sorry…
Did you say installing something that is known to not work properly?
Who is the chief executive of the city?
February 27th, 2010 at 3:46 pm
Mr. Fire Chief needs to join the Party of No.
March 2nd, 2010 at 3:01 pm
What is MFD’s hurry? The current system is up and running just fine. I should point out it is Motorola, not MaCom/Open Sky/Harris Communications. The City of Milwaukee is just begging for a lawsuit. The police chief and city leaders have be documented as saying they have too much already invested and that they just can’t spend the money to back out now. How will that play in front of a civil jury when some widow and a few little tykes are crying because daddy just died when he couldn’t call for help on his radio. MFD needs to wait it out. If they don’t, somebody is going to pay, and in the end it is the taxpayers, but more importantly it is some Police Officer or Firefighter who will pay with his or her life! Don’t waste any more money on a lemon. Please.
March 3rd, 2010 at 4:43 pm
Milwaukee Fire Chief said they can’t talk to police right now. That problem can be easily solved by giving all Battalion Chiefs a MPD open sky radio.
Then there is the “we can’t talk to the suburban fire departments” All suburban fire departments still have VHF radios in their rigs, and all those radios have a channel called “IFERN” Milwaukee Fire radios have IFERN too. Suburban departments also have a 24/7 IFERN patch on their 800mhz radios.
Now that MFD is a member of MABAS, they should have all the MABAS fireground frequencies in their radios, just like the suburban departments have. Suburban fire command vehicles can set up patches at the scene too.
Listen to MFD here http://www.wifirefeeds.com/milwaukee.htm and see if you can think of any reason for them to switch over to open sky.
March 10th, 2010 at 8:23 am
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