Fairfax County Police, Fire

The dispatcher's voice cuts through static - calm, measured, utterly in control. A fire call comes in, then a traffic stop. It's not music in any typical sense, but listen long enough and you'll find a rhythm: the ebb and flow of daily emergencies. Fairfax County Police, Fire live is an unfiltered feed of public service. This so-called music radio United States station is actually a scanner broadcast at a low 16kbps. That lo-fi quality adds to the atmosphere - it's raw, unedited, utterly absorbing. You'll hear code names, street addresses, the urgency of a medical call. It's a documentary unfo…