GOING DIGITAL
THE GREAT MIGRATION
S/O Martin Waters, A/C/F/O John Moody and Third Officer John Guilfoyle.
Moving to the new digital system has meant a huge amount of work across many departments, Assistant Chief Fire Officer John Moody tells Adam Hyland.
SUMMER 28 FIRECALL
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n a visit to the Service Support Centre at the end of May to talk about the additions to the ambulance fleet, Third Officer John Guilfoyle was keen to highlight that the fleet replacement programme was being carried out in tandem with the migration of all vehicles from the analogue VHS radio system to a digital system supplied by TETRA Ireland in order to facilitate integration with the national CAD system. It was a happy coincidence that I happened to be there on the day the last ambulance was migrated, and standing beside that ambulance when the last call on the old system came in. D/O Martin Cooke, who received the call, described it as “quite a historic moment” while T/O Guilfoyle suggested I talk to Assistant Chief Fire Officer (A/C/F/O) John Moody, who oversaw this landmark project, to hear about the full scale of the plan. A few days later, I sat down with A/C/F/O Moody via Zoom to hear just what was involved in what he describes as “a very significant day for Dublin Fire Brigade”. “This is probably the biggest technical development in
