Modern Marvels: LACoFD Communications Cntr Tonight

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The Los Angeles County Fire Department Command and Control/Dispatch Center will be highlighted this evening on the History Channel’s program, Modern Marvels.

From Alexander Graham Bell's crude creation, to today's high-speed wireless networks, Modern Marvels will look into the past, present and future of the telephone. A segment of the program will feature emergency telephone operations and will enter into the inner workings of our Department’s emergency dispatch center.

Modern Marvels will air tonight (11/13) on the History Channel. Check your cable or satellite provider for the appropriate time and channel in your area.

For more about Modern Marvels visit http://www.history.com/minisites/modernmarvels .

If you have any questions, please contact the Public Affairs Section at (323) 881-2472.

It is airing tonight at 11 P.M. in an episode called "Modern Marvels: The Telephone". If you missed it, look for it on future episodes.

This is the description of that episode:

From Alexander Graham Bell's crude creation, to today's high-speed wireless networks, we'll look into the past, present and future of the telephone. We'll visit the AT&T archives to see how the very first telephone boxes wired together with telegraph cables have evolved into vast wireless networks. Enter into the inner workings of Los Angeles County's 911 emergency dispatch center, as well as explore advancements made by Lucent/Bell Labs in phone-embedded GPS technology. With telephone privacy issues making headlines, witness a demonstration of how easy it can be for someone to illegally tap your phone. We'll also look at a technology developed by NASA-Ames that might one day allow people to converse by merely thinking what they want to say.

[RWC130 594]

COOL!

I hope while they were filming Engine 51 & Squad 51 got a run.

"Station 51, 10-4 KMG-365"

[JBE 328]

I've been to this office a number of times over the past 5 yrs. It's a really awesome set up. However, what you would hear on the radio is a simple warble tone, "Engine and Squad 51, Man down, 3900 Lankershim Boulevard, Lot C" No acknowledgment.