http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/fire/pdfs/face9948.pdf - Dec 1999 - Battalion Chief dies at warehouse fire - 800 Mhz radios "malfunctioned" for several different reasons - they used the "talkaround channel"
https://sites.google.com/site/missouripublicsafety/home/kansas-city/1999-lodd-kansas-city-fd - copy of the NIOSH report
BC died at warehouse fire - I think he was the radio man for the FD - there was a 2008 ish document (maybe a radio rfp) that had detailed info on their radio system (both trunked and conventional channels IIRC)