Someone sent me this pic a while ago and I just came across it again. Anyone out there have trouble with gated communities? How to other agencies gain access to these places?
Dovy
Dovy
Anyone else have an arangment like this?
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These are popular in many gated subdivisions around Tennessee cities.
Usually these gates use an audible overide sensor keyed to the yelp sound from the siren. However, some services found they needed a siren manf. particular yelp pattern (i.e., Federal instead of SVP). The siren yelp can be calibrated, or a tone recorded at the dispatch center can be retransmitted and played over the PA system.
The dispatcher might also obtain any key code from the caller so that may be entered to allow access.
Usually these gates use an audible overide sensor keyed to the yelp sound from the siren. However, some services found they needed a siren manf. particular yelp pattern (i.e., Federal instead of SVP). The siren yelp can be calibrated, or a tone recorded at the dispatch center can be retransmitted and played over the PA system.
The dispatcher might also obtain any key code from the caller so that may be entered to allow access.
RolnCode3
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NJEMT
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bkn74
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Down in Orlando, when I did gate work, some used the Opticom sensor, some open with the yelp tone. It depended what was being gated.
paff2
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fleetcomm
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I have seen the ones that you double click on a radio frequency and it will open the gate. I don't think that gate would be that hard to get past but, here is a company that sell these items Emergency Vehicle Entrance S.O.S Siren Activated Access Control Strobe Signal Click 2 Enter Sensor
kinnelonfire75
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All of ours around here use yelp then orange county also uses the radio on a programed channel. We have one that also uses the lights so even the power company can get in with the beacon.
FireEMSPolice
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A FD I know had a transmitter that looked like a garage door opener to open the gate if Security wasn't there. Problem was that it worked on the same bay door where the tanker came out of. The opener was kept on the engine. I was there as the engine left the station and the tanker was on its way out and the button was accidentally pressed. The sound of the garage door falling apart as it came down on the tanker was NOT pretty.
We have one here. Two options to get in, couple of our vehicles have the proximity card to open the gate or there is a Knox box with a switch inside to open the gate
My old department had a community that we used yelp to gain entry..that lasted about 6 months! Seems the residents didn't like it very much.... hearing our siren @ 3 am so they issued all of our trucks gate cards that we would swipe for entry.
ff168577
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We use pre-emption(opticom) to gain access, or we just ram the gate if that fails. We did that once, and the township made the community replace the gate because their sensor failed.
theroofable
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Drove through a few gates that didnt open actually, they all open for structure fires. I wouldnt recommend doing that for fire alarms and such though :thumbsup:
FGS
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There was this apartment complex in Winston Salem NC. It's a gated community. All they had for the gates are long sections of downspout pipes. Same stuff they put on the sides of houses.
No sensor to open the gates for the fire trucks as I could see. Then again who do you thing is gonna win? A 50,000 pound fire truck or a downspout pipe. :haha: :crazy:
No sensor to open the gates for the fire trucks as I could see. Then again who do you thing is gonna win? A 50,000 pound fire truck or a downspout pipe. :haha: :crazy: