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- From: Donald.Poole@f800.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Donald Poole)
- Newsgroups: misc.emerg-services
- Subject: Re: Code 99
- Message-ID: <721871487.F00072@remote.halcyon.com>
- Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 15:13:00 -0800
- Sender: UUCP@remote.halcyon.com
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- > A question for all you rescue people out there from someone
- who
- >lives in a volunteer fire/rescue community in Maine...what does it
- >specifically mean when someone (dispatcher, EMT, etc) says it's a
- "code
- >99"? I have a scanner at my home so I can hear all the excitement in
- my
- >town when an alarm goes off or there's an accident, and the other
- night
- >there was a "CODE 99" broadcast and two days later the patient's
- >obituary was in the local paper.
- > -Darryl
- >---
-
- Well it looks like to me it may mean a "Working Code" or C.P.R. in
- progress,
- I am not from that area, and most areas have there own form of radio
- code,
- here in P.G. County Maryland, we talk normal (no codes).... Makes it a
- lot
- easier...:)... call the dispatchers office, they should beable to tell
- you,
- but I would bet a doller to a donut that it was a heart attack..
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- * Origin: The Crow's Nest (1:109/800)
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