The two week narrowbanding transition period for users of the county-wide VHF fire paging channel began yesterday morning. The new narrowband fire channel (155.5500 MHz) is now being actively used for alerting by four of our dispatch centers.
Radio towers on the BRICS 800MHz voice system receive a thorough yearly preventative maintenance check. During this process, each individual tower is taken out of service for several hours so that site equipment can be checked and calibrated.