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Memorial Day Crown Beach Incident

The City of Alameda has created a repository for documents and files related to the Memorial Day incident at Crown Beach. We will continue to add documents to this page as they are available.


Timeline of Events

Timeline of Alameda Police Department responses

Timeline of Alameda Fire Department responses

Alameda Police Department Computer Aided Dispatch printout

Alameda County Computer-Aided Dispatch printout


Records

Alameda Fire Department Incident Report

Alameda Fire Department transcript of audio recordings

Alameda Police Department transcript of audio recordings

Alameda Police Department Incident Report--part 1

Alameda Police Department Incident Report--part 2

Alameda Police Department Incident Report--part 3

Alameda Police Department Summary of Dispatcher Interviews


Fire Department Policies

Alameda Fire Department Information Bulletin 1762: The Alameda Fire Department memo from 2009 regarding the status change of the surface water rescue swimmers.

Alameda Fire Department Information Bulletin 1884: The Alameda Fire Department memo of May 31, 2011, regarding the operational status change for surface water rescue swimmers.

Alameda Fire Department General Orders Bulletin 146: The 2003 policy on water rescue operations.

NFPA 1006:  The National Fire Protection Association Standard for Technical Rescuer Professional Qualifications.

NFPA 1670:  The National Fire Protection Association Standard on Operations and Training for Technical Search and Rescue Incidents.


Audio Files

Recordings of the dispatch and radio transmissions may be accessed via Windows Media Player.  In order to listen to all of the files, please download and install the audio codec file. 

Fire Department's Audio Files

Three audio files are available from the Fire Department.  The first file is an uninterrupted recording of the radio transmission, which runs more than an hour and has several gaps between transmissions.  The second file compresses all of the transmissions, excluding the gaps.  The third file contains the telephone dispatch recordings.

Radio Transmission - Real Time

Radio Transmission - Compressed

Phone Transmissions

Additional Radio Transmission

Police Department's Audio Files

The Police Department’s audio files are a compilation of telephone dispatch recordings and radio transmissions.  The file names represent the time stamp of the phone or radio transmission.