Flood Call 124

Airman from the Air Base fire department notifies that they are taking over Emerado's calls for the night, wondering if they can do a test page over their frequency to see if their radios are working correctly to take over the new calls. Operator can't find the number to call, they deliberate about what number and where to call to page them out. Man stays on line while operator calls and does the test, gets the correct number and sets up test so the calls will go through to the base.

Date	April 18th 1997, 5:45 pm
Duration	142 seconds
Channel	25
Direction	incoming call
Abstract By	Erin Lurie
Tagged As	fire department Grand Forks Air Force Base (GFAFB) technical assistance military Emerado, North Dakota

Transcript

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This is Airman Phipps from the base fire department.
We are taking over Emerato's calls tonight because they're downtown working on the flood
and we were wondering if you could do a test page over their frequency so we can see if
our radios are working correctly.
Okay, you're taking over Emerato's?
Yes, we're taking their calls tonight.
Okay, we just have a phone number for them, we don't...
Um, you guys' phone number?
Yeah.
It, uh, it pages, well what, do you have 2-4-9-8?
Uh, no, Emerato Fire, we've got 2-9-0-6.
2-9-0-6 would probably be their tone out system?
I have no idea.
Alright, well, I'll get a hold of their key for somebody and see if they can't do it then.
Can't do what?
I know they can tone out, they can do their pages from the fire department, but their
paging system, you have to like call a number.
Yeah, we call 5-4-9-0-6, that's what we call.
And it pages us out.
I can try it and see if it works.
Alright, yeah.
Do you want to stay on the line or do you want to...
Um, yeah, I could stay on the line.
Okay, hold on.
This is a test of the Emerato Fire paging system.
Test only, disregard, this is only a test.
Did it work?
Uh, yes ma'am.
Okay.
So we don't need to call anything different, we can just use the same number, but you'll
respond?
Yes ma'am.
Okay, good enough.
Thanks, bye.