'It's Like a Calling' ; Southern Maine Fire Buffs Hot On Trail of All Things Incendiary.
Portland Press Herald › November 27, 2006
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Step in to Jon Chamblee's home office and you'll see a simple desk, weighted down with more than a half-dozen scanners, a couple of computers and a tangle of wires and power strips as intimidating as a Gordian knot.
Even as you take in the equipment, ranging from 1950s radio scanners to the most up-to-date digital technology, the noise washes over you. Dispatchers bark out numeric fire and police codes in overlapping voices, some faint and fuzzy, others calling out like they are standing right there in the doorway.See the full content of this document
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'It's Like a Calling' ; Southern Maine Fire Buffs Hot On Trail of All Things Incendiary.
"That's Boston there," Chamblee says, before turning down the volume on a few scanners so he can hold a conversation. "I know by who's talking where it's coming from."
The retired North Berwick fire chief spends most of his day in here, clearly in his element as he monitors official fire channels from Verm...See the full content of this document
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