How Alarms Are Received and Dispatched
There are many ways that alarms are received: walk-in requests for help, phone calls to the stations, or through the Colonie Dispatch Center.
Upon receiving a request for help, Colonie Dispatch tones out SRLFD and any other departments on the alarm box.
In the modern day, the bulky pagers that used to be carried to alert firefighters of a call are being supplemented by text messages sent to members' cell phones. This is a sample of what these text messages look like:
FIRE ALARM
E445,E446,E447,E448,TK9
123 TEST RD
MR & MRS JOHN Q PUBLIC
Map Shaker 08:15:00
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