Red Phone, Black Phone

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Red Phone, Black Phone

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I heard a call the other day from 6DS to an ambulance, to ask if they had a Red or Black phone with them. They had both, 6DS asked the medic to push the distress button on the red one, as one had gone off before.

What's the difference between the 2 phones, and how different are they to a normal one?

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I heard that last night too, 6DS talking to the pinjarra crew, red phone black phone a bit bizarre.
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just wondering if it could be the shift that they are on?
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Post by Ambul8 »

some country sub centres have shift phones....ie pinjarra, bunbury,

red phone = red shift
blue phone = blue shift
green pone = green shift
black phone = black shift

its just a variatuion from the standard phone system for ambulances that is based on sequencial numbers relating to the vans fleet number..
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Ambul8 wrote: its just a variatuion from the standard phone system for ambulances that is based on sequencial numbers relating to the vans fleet number..
Sweet, so do metro units then have a heap of mobiles all with sequential numbers, and the end numbers tie into the overall ambulance number, i.e. ambulance 133 will have phone number 04** *** 133 ?? That's how I understood it.

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Post by wizzard »

I can tell you that with VFAS we have sequential numbers alined with our FAP numbers
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I remember the BAT phone we had in mandurah before all the local calls were transferred automatically back to belmont.
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Post by Tyranus »

Sorry, wizzard not too crash hot with the ambulance acronyms, FAP = First Aid Post?
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Tyranus wrote:Sorry, wizzard not too crash hot with the ambulance acronyms, FAP = First Aid Post?
yes FAP is first aid post
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Tyranus wrote:
Ambul8 wrote: its just a variatuion from the standard phone system for ambulances that is based on sequencial numbers relating to the vans fleet number..
Sweet, so do metro units then have a heap of mobiles all with sequential numbers, and the end numbers tie into the overall ambulance number, i.e. ambulance 133 will have phone number 04** *** 133 ?? That's how I understood it.

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yep, that why u may hear a few "DS Warwick, can u pls tell me what truck Vic Park 3 is in?" That way we can chit chat.

the fleet number is also how the data is assigned to the truck. ie comms staff allocate a crew to a truck (ie Warwick into truck 56) and that then is how the CAD sends the data
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ahhh awesome, now those calls make a lot more sense! Although, the reply to the question always seems to be over an MDT, as I've never heard a response.
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Markmywords wrote:I remember the BAT phone we had in mandurah before all the local calls were transferred automatically back to belmont.
oh the real 'blue phone'
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