Overheard on Police Scanner

Taking lives, wrecking lives
Herald Times Reporter
Anyone listening to a scanner radio in Manitowoc County knows it's not uncommon for emergency workers to be called to the scene of a drug overdose. “We're definitely getting more calls related to overdoses,” said Lt. Dave Remiker of the Manitowoc ...


Colorado firefighters see things they never had before
Washington Post
They had been evacuated from their home on the other side of the mountain, in the Mountain Shadows subdivision. They sat alone and listened to the scanner. A panicked update crackled over the radio: “Mountain Shadows is burning.” He took his wife's ...