No 10 Codes Allowed
Do you still use 10 codes in your radio communications? We still use a few in our fire department. To continue to be eligible for federal funding, departments will need to discontinue the use of 10 codes and use plain English. This from WOODTV:
Codes like 10-4, 10-15, and 10-20 are all part of sort of secret language police and firemen use to talk to each other, but now the federal government says they need to stop or risk losing funding....
"We're saying, in order to continue federal funding from any departments and federal agencies, they need to meet those requirements by the end of FY '06 and that includes the plain English standards," says Gil Jamieson of FEMA.
I think that using plain English makes good sense. Less confusion, new firefighters won't have to learn the 10 codes, and in the long run it will probably save time.
I'll try to find the regulations at FEMA and post a link later.
Posted August 24, 2005 08:42 AM · Link
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