a. To evacuate a single firefighter logged on to a base
station; click the Evacuate icon located in the
firefighter’s SCBA statistics display window.
• When the evacuation signal is sent to a firefighter,
the Evacuate icon in the firefighter’s SCBA statis-
tics display window will turn RED.
• When the ICM TxR Unit receives the evacuation
command, the PASS device will begin to emit an
audible evacuation alarm, display a flashing run-
ning man icon on the LCD, and display alternating
RED/ORANGE LEDs in the NightFighter receiver.
• When an ICM TxR Unit successfully receives the
evacuation signal, it will automatically return a sig-
nal to the base station to confirm that the signal
has been received. If the signal is not received,
the base station will continue to send a signal to
that unit until the radio transmission is successful.
• When the base station receives a confirmation sig-
nal from the evacuated ICM TxR Unit, the
Evacuate icon for that firefighter will turn YELLOW.
b. The firefighter must then manually press the reset
button on the ICM TxR Unit twice in rapid succes-
sion in order to acknowledge the evacuation com-
mand and silence the evacuation alarm.
• Once the firefighter manually acknowledges the
evacuation command, the Evacuate icon will turn
GREEN.
PAR TIMER
The ICM TxR Accountability Software provides a PAR
(Personnel Accountability Report) Timer to serve as a
reminder when the specified PAR time interval has been
reached during an incident. By default, the PAR time
increment is 15 minutes. This setting can be changed in
the settings menu. Refer to the Configuring the SCBA
Monitoring Settings section of this manual.
Using the PAR Timer
1. Click the “Start” button in the upper right portion of
the SCBA monitoring window.
2. The PAR timer will then begin counting up from 00:00.
3. When the specified PAR time interval has been
reached (every 15 minutes by default), a pop-up alarm
window will be displayed and the PC will emit an audi-
ble tone.
4. The PAR timer will continue and another PAR alarm
will appear and sound when the next PAR time interval
has been reached. For example, default the PAR
alarm will occur at 15, 30, 45…..minutes.
LOSS OF RADIO COMMUNICATION
If a firefighter travels out of the range of radio transmis-
sion, the PC software will display several indications that
the radio link has been lost. These indications are
described below. When a firefighter is out of range, any
signals sent from ICM TxR Unit to the base station, or
from the base station to the ICM TxR Unit, cannot be real-
ized until the radio link has been re-established. Both the
ICM TxR Unit and the base station will repeatedly send a
signal until the link has been regained.
Note:
A loss of radio communication may occur when a
firefighter is in an area of a structure that is not conducive
to proper radio transmission. Structures that are under-
ground or constructed of thick concrete and metal are not
conducive to good radio signal transmission. Areas
where traditional two way radio communication is difficult
may induce a temporary loss of radio contact between
the ICM TxR Unit and the base station.
Indications that a firefighter has lost radio communi-
cation with the base station
•
The antenna icon in the firefighter’s SCBA statis-
tics window will turn gray and a RED X will
appear over the icon.
•
A gray antenna icon with a RED X over it will
appear next to the helmet icon for any firefight-
er that has lost radio communication.
•
In the SCBA statistics display window, directly below
the service time remaining display, a red text counter
will appear when a firefighter is out of range of radio
contact. This counter will continue to count the num-
ber of minute that a firefighter has been out of radio
contact with the base station. The counter will disap-
pear when the radio link has been regained.
•
On the ICM TxR Unit, the radio link indicator (antenna
icon) in the upper right portion of the LCD will begin to
flash when the unit has lost radio communication.
USING MULTIPLE BASE STATIONS
Two Base Stations on a Single PC
A single base station can monitor up to 50 firefighters at
one time. If there is a need to monitor more than 50 fire-
fighters at one time, an additional base station may be
attached to the same PC to allow up to 100 firefighters to
be monitored.
As the number of firefighters approaches 50 on a
given base station, MSA recommends that the PC at
least meet the optimum PC system requirements rec-
ommended in this manual. Failure to do so may cause
the PC to loose its ability to effectively monitor all of
the firefighters at the incident. It is up to the user to
determine whether or not the PC being used is capa-
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