I honestly have no idea why the FDNY didn't have other callout lines recorded like "rescue" (since of course they have rescue units). Do they just use "special unit" for any non-engine, non-ladder, & non-battalion units? (including rescue units)
@@thisissparta789789 What if a station contains more than one "special unit"? (especially since the tones don't actually indicate the station &/or unit number)
The only house with more than one SOC unit is Squad 288 Hazmat 1. The house watchman still gets the ticket and says which unit over the speakers. I know for a while the squads still said Engine.
I think it is for internal calls for dispatching occurrences. But I can't exactly say, I'm a Civil Defense Agent/firefighter in Brazil, and we use other types of alarms.
@@adsoncec I watch Emergenyc gameplay. It basically means a secondary Engine Company would play the role of the original engine company. Say, Engine ###'s station is closest to a kitchen fire, but it's out on another call. So the next closest fire station is called in. Hence the Acting Engine.
@@JH-cw5po in fact the ring is just how noise is called a "ring ring". in practice, it has a laptop inside the vehicle and when it receives an event or message from the dispatch room, it plays according to the video.
Before about 2002, the voice was very quiet, barely even audible and very, very robotic, and it came before the tones. You'd be laying in the bunkroom, and if it was very quiet you'd have about a 1 second head start on the rest of the guys.
