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re: How do ambulances access gated communities in off hours?

Posted on 3/6/15 at 10:10 am to
Posted by TH03
Mogadishu
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Posted on 3/6/15 at 10:10 am to
I know some places have little boxes that have a button to open the gate. It's locked up and the fire department has a key.
Posted by PapaPogey
Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2008
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Posted on 3/6/15 at 10:10 am to
I think it's just one universal code for all emergency personnel. I doubt they have a long arse list of gate codes on file

There are also other services like parcel, trash, etc that need access at times.
Posted by KG6
Member since Aug 2009
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Posted on 3/6/15 at 10:10 am to
They all have codes. They may change them periodically, but they let certain groups know. When I was a delivery driver, we'd always find out what they were and post it up so that everyone would know.
Posted by TH03
Mogadishu
Member since Dec 2008
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Posted on 3/6/15 at 10:12 am to
quote:


There are also other services like parcel, trash, etc that need access at times


But that's during the day and a lot of places just leave them open from sun up to sun down
Posted by Hammertime
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Member since Jan 2012
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Posted on 3/6/15 at 10:12 am to
quote:

"Emergency Vehicles, Yelp for entry" I always wondered if they play their sirens it will open upon that sound?
The sounds of their sirens open up the gate. Yelp is a siren sound


Eta: They have told me that is how they open some gates
This post was edited on 3/6/15 at 10:16 am
Posted by Sgt_Lincoln_Osiris
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2014
1077 posts
Posted on 3/6/15 at 10:17 am to
So would (theoretically) downloading a police siren app and blaring it on my car speakers open the gate?
Posted by T4
Member since Mar 2014
288 posts
Posted on 3/6/15 at 10:19 am to
Some have yelper detection that will make them open when they use the yelp function on there sirens
Posted by PapaPogey
Baton Rouge
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Posted on 3/6/15 at 10:21 am to
Most of the time, but some parcels run late in the evenings
This post was edited on 3/6/15 at 10:21 am
Posted by nastynelly
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2008
3007 posts
Posted on 3/6/15 at 10:22 am to
Many gated communities also have it set up so the responder can just "yelp" the sirens to override the gate
Posted by Ace Midnight
Between sanity and madness
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Posted on 3/6/15 at 10:23 am to
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How does that work?


It's 1234 in most places. Try it.
Posted by TigerNlc
Chocolate City
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Posted on 3/6/15 at 10:24 am to
Posted by Cdawg
TigerFred's Living Room
Member since Sep 2003
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Posted on 3/6/15 at 10:25 am to
Usually a locked box for emergency use only. It should be red near a pad.

Some communities require a main entrance and a "crash" gate that's emergency entry/exit only and stays locked off a secondary street.

Newer ones have electronic recognition.
This post was edited on 3/6/15 at 10:26 am
Posted by mikelbr
Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2008
47507 posts
Posted on 3/6/15 at 10:27 am to
quote:

I don't think pizza delivery guys have access to gated communities like emergency personnel does


A customer usually gives the pizza boy the code. He shares it with the rest of the store. It's fairly common. But you're right, the complex manager doesn't call up the pizza joints every time it changes.
Posted by Twenty 49
Shreveport
Member since Jun 2014
18771 posts
Posted on 3/6/15 at 10:30 am to
Ten minutes before I saw this, I talked to retired city cop who mentioned that a house burned in his gated hood. I asked him how the fire dept got access to such hoods.

He and a retired state trooper both said that, when they worked, each hood provided the code to the fire dept, and the station had a book with all the codes. Firemen working in an area learned all the codes.

As posted above, some have alternative methods of entry as well.
Posted by Sir Drinksalot
Member since Aug 2005
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Posted on 3/6/15 at 10:32 am to
Big arse bolt cutters
Posted by WG_Dawg
Hoover
Member since Jun 2004
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Posted on 3/6/15 at 10:32 am to
quote:

A customer usually gives the pizza boy the code. He shares it with the rest of the store. It's fairly common.


I would certainly hope not. In my place (and many other places I've lived) your code is tied to your unit, so when a visitor punches in your code it calls your cell phone and you hit 9 (or whatever) and it opens the gate.

If I got a phone call for every delivery driver that came to the complex I'd flip my shite.
Posted by lsu480
Downtown Scottsdale
Member since Oct 2007
92876 posts
Posted on 3/6/15 at 10:37 am to
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One gate I've seen had a small sign attached that said to open this gate in emergencies yelp like a dog for 6 seconds. no lie. I've never tried it but was always curious.


How could you see that and not try?
Posted by yankeeundercover
Buffalo, NY
Member since Jan 2010
36373 posts
Posted on 3/6/15 at 10:41 am to
quote:

I think it's just one universal code for all emergency personnel.
Don't we have any EMTs or Police on the board to answer this?
Posted by PapaPogey
Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2008
39509 posts
Posted on 3/6/15 at 10:42 am to
I think it depends on the technology at the gate
Posted by Hammertime
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Posted on 3/6/15 at 10:42 am to
Car speakers don't typically sound the same as PA speakers, but theoretically it would work
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