[Harrison Sand] just finished a guide on how to use SDR to listen in on Police and Fire radio bands ... using some support programs including the Digital Speech Decoder which turns the data ...

Of course, old-fashioned scanners were often used to listen to police and fire radios. Those have all gone trunked these days. This isn’t a new idea, but it did seem like a well-packaged solution.

the scanners have been deployed to all 32 BCFR fire station, plus four Titusville Fire Department stations, three Cocoa Fire Department stations and two Titusville Police Department facilities.

Individuals who listen to scanners to hear ... York Area United Fire and Rescue Chief Dan Hoff said it was nice when firefighters responding to the same call as police could hear on the radio ...

Public safety agencies in Austin — police, fire and EMS — will soon go radio ... This means that the current publicly available scanner information, which residents can use to listen to ...