SAFR

Radio & Map

Two things you use constantly and neither of them lives where you would first look.

Radio

The radio is not in the MDT. There is no radio panel on the SAFR terminal — that panel exists only for dispatch. Your radio is the in-game one, started with /luxradio.

That is deliberate rather than missing. You are in an engine or a medic unit, in the game, with your hands full; a push-to-talk living in a browser tab you are not looking at would be useless. Dispatch is the one role at a desk, so dispatch is the one role with a radio in the browser.

What follows from that:

• Start the radio in-game at the start of your shift. Signing on to the CAD does not put you on the air. A unit that is on duty in the CAD but never ran /luxradio is a unit nobody can raise — and it looks fine from the outside, which is what makes it worth checking.
• Your channel follows whatever assignment dispatch gives you.
• If people say you fade in and out, that is usually a microphone that is too quiet rather than the radio. The resource measures your transmissions and tells you when they are too soft.

For text, Messages in the sidebar works for every department — see Radio & Messaging for how it works.

Live Map

Live Map is the same map dispatch uses, in your sidebar: every on-duty unit, live from the game, with incidents where they were reported.

Use postals to say where you are. They are the shared language between you, dispatch and LEO, and they are what makes a location repeatable over the radio.

Two SAFR-specific things sit on top of the same map data:

• Hydrants — a layer on this same map; turn it on with the hydrant button.
• Hospital routing — setting an in-game waypoint to a hospital that is accepting.

Which to use for what

The radio is for anything time-critical and anything the whole channel needs to hear. Messages are for what does not belong on the air.

Neither is the record. What happened on the call goes in the incident log, where the report is built from it afterwards.