We’re reprogramming our scanner today to make sure we’re receiving emergency information from as many areas as possible.

We use this a lot for car accidents and fires, but also for severe weather. The tornado that touched down in Linwood a couple weeks ago reminded us that there is an area very nearby that we can’t monitor as carefully as we do Douglas County.

As we were working on that, it got me thinking about the foreign language emergency dispatchers use, the 10 codes. We have a guy in the office who can carry on a conversation using nothing but 10 codes.

But it also reminded me of this list of Douglas County dispatchers’ 10 codes we evidently published back in 2000. Long before I ever got to Lawrence. Everyone needs a good dictionary though.

I also created a poll to see what others know. Take it and let me know how good you are with that foreign language, the 10 codes.