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Aug 11 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
(1) NEW: DC 911 abandoned an emergency radio channel again today. It's the 4th time in as many months. It went unanswered as 2 different ambulance crews tried to reach @OUC_DC six different times over 2.5 minutes. Listen in the next tweet (more) Image
(2) LISTEN: The abandoned emergency channel -- Channel 12 -- is used for EMS calls in Northwest & Southwest DC. Ambulance 9 unsuccessfully tried to get an apartment number for the call they were on using 2 different channels. They finally just said "disregard". (more)
(3) This had been a chronic problem. Former interim director Cleo Subido addressed the issue in a March 2021 hearing responding to @CMLewisGeorgeW4. With the new rules it seemed to abate by July of last year. It's unclear if the rules Subido mentioned are still in place. (more)
(4) I've talked with fire, EMS & 911 workers throughout the U.S. I've yet to find someone who can point me to another 911 center that regularly fails to respond to fire and EMS radio traffic for minutes at a time. It's a dangerous situation that shouldn't happen. #FixDC911 Image

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Aug 15
(1) After refusing for two days to admit DC 911 made serious mistakes handling an infant CPR call last week @SafeDC came clean late Friday to the Washington Post. In doing so he also broke the news the Bowser administration is considering splitting up @OUC_DC. (more) @ODCA_DC Image
(2) There were 2 big mistakes in this tragic call. First, a call-taker entered it as a child locked in a car rather than a child not breathing, as a parent told 911 very early on. The second has to do with these signs inside DC 911. They highlight a significant problem. (more) Image
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Aug 13
(1) NEW: HUGE DC 911 news in the middle of @ELaserDavies's article on the latest mistake where someone died. Things are so bad @SafeDC admits they're considering moving fire & EMS dispatch to @dcfireems where it was before OUC was created. (more) @CMLewisGeorgeW4 @charlesallen Image
(2) In Dec. 2020 when OUC Director Holmes was leaving, @SegravesNBC4 asked @MayorBowser if this was a possibility & got an instant no. At that point, I had discovered 4 deaths where there were 911 mistakes. Since January of this year there have been 5 more. (more)
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Aug 1
(1) You be the judge. In a statement today Metro says there's "no evidence" in last night's Red Line fire "a train was directed to perform a track inspection where there was report of smoke or fire." But the radio traffic seems to show there may actually be some evidence. (more)
(2) This episode started the exact same way as the tragic 2015 L'Enfant Plaza fire that killed Carol Glover -- with a fire alarm from a Metro pumping station connected to a Metro tunnel (@NTSB report excerpts below). Only this time the alarm was received & Metro reacted. (more)
(3) LISTEN: Radio traffic shows Metro sent a supervisor to the alarm & Rail Operations Control Center (ROCC) initially tried to reach Train 108 to stop at Woodley Park. But the controller couldn't reach the operator of Train 108 before he left Woodley with his passengers. (more)
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Jul 7
(1) A map shows Rt 1 & Huntington sits on the border of 2 well-known communities in Fairfax County. But @FairfaxCountyPD's unwritten policy is to only use those names for good news. For crime, they use the mailing address so they can say it happened "in Alexandria". (more)
(2) This lets the public think all the bad stuff occurs in the City of Alexandria. While it's bad news for @AlexandriaVAPD, @AlexandriaVAGov & its citizens it's great news for Fairfax County because they have a very large area--about 100 sq miles--with Alexandria addresses.(more)
(3) You'd think competent & effective police PIOs would want to narrow down a location to less than 100 sq miles by letting the public know what community a crime occurred in. Not @FairfaxCountyPD. (more)
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Jun 6
(1) @justingeorge's latest provokes more questions about @wmata board's culpability in Metro's decades old failure to adopt a safety culture. Just take the last 3 years. If safety was really a priority every board meeting would focus on @MetrorailSafety's latest findings. (more)
(2) Investigative reports @MetrorailSafety adopts monthly are a road map to the constant Metro safety problems. If the board looked at & discussed them each month the recent @MetrorailSafety power report citing a “culture of noncompliance” wouldn't have been a surprise. (more)
(3) Anyone who reads @MetrorailSafety reports knows issues surrounding shutting off third rail power, safely restoring it & related communications are routine findings by WMSC's investigators. How many of these reports have been publicly addressed by @wmata's board? (more)
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May 18
(1) When I say @wmata hasn't made safety a priority since before trains began running I'm referring to a 1970s battle over bus & rail car flammability. Jackson Graham pushed back against the Natl Bureau of Standards, Natl Academy of Science & DC's fire marshal on this. (more)
(2) A National Academy of Science report said, "fire safety appears to have been evaluated without approaching the subject systemically & without requiring that meaningful specifications be defined & met." (more)
(3) I talked a couple of times with the late John Breen. He was DCFD's fire marshal at the time. Chief Breen went up against Metro. He said things got tense. The area fire chiefs first expressed concern about what materials would be used in subway cars way back in 1967. (more)
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