[Harrison Sand] just finished a guide on how to use SDR to listen in on Police and Fire radio bands. The project, which results in the crystal clear audio reception heard after the break ...

“Several times over the scanner I’ve heard ... His fellow fire department colleagues could not find him for 30 minutes because his radio had broken. While the firefighter ended up surviving ...

This means that the current publicly available scanner information ... the Austin Fire Department and Austin-Travis County EMS to an encrypted radio system "protects personal and confidential ...