M2UF
CLOSED
M2UF is the Home Office call sign allocated to Highland and Islands Control Room and M2UF is used in all radio transmissions.
The Control room is situated in a purpose built building at 64 Seafield Road.
6/12/2016 The Command and Control Centre at Seafield Road, Inverness closed today and all calls for the legacy Highlands and Islands Fire and Rescue Service are now being handled at the Temporary Dundee Operations Control at Macalpine Road.
Officer in Charge
Locations
? to ? A room on the right as you go in the main entrance to Inverness Fire Station.
? to ? First floor above the old Control Room.
2004 Command and Control Centre 64 Seafield Road Inverness Photo
Establishment 2004
1 Fire Control Officer
5 Senior Fire Control Operators
4 Leading Fire Control Operators
8 Fire Control Operators
One of the Senior Fire Control Operators is a Control Trainer.
Command and control
The brigade is currently equipping a new command control
centre. The building is purpose built on two floors. The ground floor houses
equipment room, radio workshop and locker facilities. The first floor houses the
control room, incident room and fire control officer's office. Command and
control equipment, Fortek's Firewatch Fires version 3.7 will be used. Dopras DS
1000 ICCS will be used to handle both telephone and radio traffic. A mapping
system integrated with the command and control system will be incorporated
to replace the existing manual mapping system.
(Fire magazine, Scottish Feature, August 1993. Page
23.)
Microwave radios
The Highland
and Islands’ radio scheme is the largest microwave radio system in the UK, if
not Europe. It covers the whole of 12,500 square miles of the brigade. The
scheme is a joint scheme with the Northern Constabulary using 74 of the 95
hilltop sites in the whole radio scheme which was required as a result of WARC.
Highland VHF FM scan and vote system is used for communications with mobiles.
(Fire magazine, Scottish Feature, August 1993. Page
26.)
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