You know the feeling when your kid is out and about and you hear sirens?  You suddenly go into panic mode and, of course, they don’t answer their phone when you call!  Or, when you hear sirens and you smell smoke and you wonder if you should prepare for a large fire?  That’s pretty common out here in the NJ Pine Barrens!

I had looked into scanners but they’re very expensive!
I figured that I’d resort to repeatedly calling my kid until she answered or worse…call all of her friends to see where she is!  How humiliating! Plus, they are at risk of their friends saying something that they shouldn’t! <gasp!>

Well, thanks to a friend of mine, who also happens to be our Fire Chief, I was turned on to Radio Reference!  It gives you online police, fire and emergency scanners feeds, providing your town or country participates!  The whole U.S. is included and each week there seems to me more feeds coming through!  FREE!

A few minutes ago I heard sirens.  My daughter is out and about in town and accidents are common!  I clicked onto their website and tuned into my zone and found out that there’s a small brush fire a few blocks over!  Unless she caused it or has found a way to get entangled in it, she should be fine!  As for the fire?  Probably out by the time I hit “publish”!

Anyway…maybe this will be helpful to you!

Either way…Have a Great Day!