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- From: Kevin.Agard@f94.n343.z1.fidonet.org (Kevin Agard)
- Newsgroups: misc.emerg-services
- Subject: Code 99
- Message-ID: <722368316.AA21834@remote.halcyon.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 11:07:00 -0800
- Sender: UUCP@remote.halcyon.com
- Lines: 37
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- DS|| 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,
-
- Each community, and each agency in some cases, devise and use their own
- codes for use over the radio. It is therefore impossible for anyone not
- familiar with the community your are referring to to answer with
- certainty, but given the info you provided I would guess that was the
- code for either a cardiac arrest or DOA.
-
-
- Regards,
-
- KMA
-
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