Hurricane Katrina

Live Feeds of Public Safety Communications

• David Hitchner, http://personal.lig.bellsouth.net/k/d/kd5eis/index.htm, is providing a dual stereo stream of the LSP System. The Left Channel is in Search mode providing all of Baton Rouge's State system site freqs. The other channel is providing Troop A and Troop B rebroadcast. This feed can be found here:

   * The Main Feed: http://www.radioreference.com:8080/lspbtr.m3u (100 User Limit)
   * Mirror 1: http://egg.dishnuts.net:8000/LASP.m3u (50 User Limit)
   * Mirror 2: http://www.recnet.com/recfm/rec2.m3u (50 User Limit)

• PFish, located in NW Louisiana, is streaming talkgroups from the State Smartzone site located there:

   * The Main Feed: http://205.252.89.181:8000/live.m3u (300 User Limit)
   * Mirror1: http://216.22.26.45:8002 (200 User Limit)
   * Mirror2: http://www.firefeeds.com

Radio Systems Status

The following is known about Public Safety Communications Systems in the affected areas:

Louisiana

• NOPD's Wide Area EDACS ProVoice system is currently DOWN and NOT operational. The system survived the initial hurricane, but subsequent flooding has knocked out generators. Currently, NOPD is working off of NPSPAC-1 and NPSPAC-2, with 1 being dedicated to all east bank operations, and 2 being dedicated to west bank operations. NOFD and EMS operations are unknown at this time.

• St Tammany Parish's EDACS ProVoice system is currently DOWN and NOT operational. Units are using legacy VHF repeaters (Covington Fire?) for all communications.

• Most sites for the Lousisian State Smartzone system are operational, however reports indicate that the North Shore Smartzone sites are currently down. Communications are occuring on the Smartzone system in the New Orleans Metro Area.

* The Bridge City Site is Down
* The LaPlace Site is UP

Mississippi

• Harrison County EDACS system is currently operational
• Gulfport - Unknown
• Biloxi - Unknown

Alabama

• Mobile - Unknown