During dispatch of IA assist to Jefferson county BLM Grizzly repeater failed to transmit to the field and field response was weak and unreadable. This occurred on multiple transmissions. The decision was made to transfer to a different command frequency mid dispatch to facilitate getting resources dispatched and to the fire. This has been an ongoing problem with this repeater and several others in the Central Oregon area. There is currently a ticket in with FS CHD about this problem. The request ID is REQ000000887997.
This issue severely impacted COIDC's ability to dispatch resources and increased threat to all resources assigned to the fire. |