Matthew Flinchbaugh

Tonight was a hard night, on Saturday the 15th of May the world lost a good man. Who devoted his most recent years to the community by being a member of the Canadochly Valley Ambulance Club. His name was Kevin Craley. It was through this devotion that I came to know him. No matter what situation we were in be it a call that the fire company was on, or a training, he always put a smile on your face and if it was not on your face for all to see then you worked your ass of to keep it from bursting into public. Tonight the memorial for Kevin was held. During this the York County Dispatch Center held a last call for Kevin. This was the first time I have ever been at a memorial for a member of the emergency services. And had the opportunity to experience the “last call.” This last call is not like the one you hear at a bar. This is something of the upmost respect, and of high honor in the emergency services. Everything in the emergency services returns from duty and is placed available. That includes each tool that is used, each price of apparatus, each department, and each of its members. When one of the apparatus is in need of repair we call it “Out of Service,” and this is called out over the air. When an apparatus is retired from service it is placed out of service. In the emergency services a last call is performed when a responder passes away. This is done by placing that individual available. And is completed by taking the individual out of service. Tonight Kevin, received his last call.

To many this may not mean much, or sound like much. But to a responder let me tell you it hits you and it hits you hard when you experience someones last call. Especially someone involved in many of the emergencies you respond on.

Kevin will be missed by many and has touched many. And anyone who knew him were lucky to have known him. Those who did not have no idea what they missed out on.

Thank you kevin for making the times interesting and enjoyable.

I’ve made a clone of the York County Emergency Radio Comm. app, by request of Lancaster County responders who saw the York County App.

Currently this app does not do as much as the York app.

It only streams Lancaster County Fire/EMS communications

Police communications is planned. I need a stream in order to add them.

And Paging, is in the works also.

Keep an eye out for updates and if you have any resources let me know.

The Future Change logs will be under the Android Apps page.

As will the York County App, and any future apps. I will still post an article when i release an update, and release new apps. But everything will be centralized on the Android Apps page

Change log:

1.1.1:

Added notification so that you know its running, will be switching this to an on going notification while streams are active. Took app out of Beta.

1.1 Beta:
Switched both streams for fire and police to services to make streams compatible with multi-tasking.
The ability to stream both at the same time is also now possible.

V1.03Beta:
Added refresh button to paging.

V1.02BETA:
FIXED caching issue on paging. Now reloads when opened.

V1.01Beta:
Fixed force close on switching to police.

Its official I have just published my first android application. The apparently does three specific things.

*Streams York County fire dispatch and ops channels with a click of a button.

*Streams York County police zones with the click of a button.

And

*Displays an up to date display of York’s fire paging system. Due to privacy this does not display medical calls unless a fire dept. Is dispatched.

Future plans
Currently apparently only streams while apparently is open. Will fix to allow multitasking.

Onclick access to York’s live cad system/ live incidents.

Service to run in the background to bring the digital paging directly to your phone. So that you can receive pages for your department without the need of a pager.

So I hope everyone enjoys.
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