Let me try to clear a few things up here.
When I reported in The Flume that the initial 911 call came in sometime after 6 p.m., that was because I was frantically writing down traffic I was hearing over 800mhz (LE). I did not write a time tic on my initial notes.
My first time tic was written on note "roll fire" at 7:14 p.m, which was issued by a deputy on 800mhz (LE)
I was not listening to the fire department analog channel, I'm too far away to pick it up. So I don't know exactly what time they were dispatched to the scene. But "roll fire" would indicate that they were staged to roll.
Although I have had (and seen) numerous comments that the 911 and the initial fire calls were closer to 7 p.m., unless someone making those comments wants to go on record, I can't source that.
Obviously "sometime after 6 p.m." leaves a lot of wiggle room (and in this case, confusion), but that's how I reported it.
Now another point.
LE uses 800mhz statewide system for communication and Park County Sheriff's Office dispatch is in Fairplay, Colorado.
Fire uses an analog channel, somewhere at 156.???mhz (don't have the channel in front of me.) Fire's dispatch is in Evergreen, Colorado.
During an incident, fire will pass on to LE anything that seems to be an LE concern, such as "There are firearms inside of house, some may be missing." More than likely fire would not pass that on to Evergreen. Fire passed that comment on to LE and they called Fairplay dispatch.
Same with the coroner. Fire might ask LE to have the coroner called, but it's not general practice to tell Evergreen to call the coroner, since that is something only LE can do. You may hear a fire command mention to Evergreen that they are going to have LE call the coroner.
So, a little confusion is we have two communication avenues here, LE and fire. Some people in the community keep analog fire tuned in, on all day or some of the day. There are not a lot of people who are monitoring 800mhz LE.
If I could get someone to go on the record in regards to something they heard on analog, or if they were on the county road and saw some LE or fire action, then I could possibly get closer to 7 p.m., instead of being further away in my reporting on the initial time.
) LE talkaround.
