Boulder County Fire Units 2xx

[soundchaser]

Starting a week or two ago, I'm hearing fire units in the 200 range being dispatched by Boulder County. It seems most of the calls are in eastern Boulder County. I'm assuming there has been some kind of reconfiguration of the fire departments. Perhaps the 2200 (Mountain View) units have been renamed? Mountain View straddles a couple of counties. Anyone know what's going on?

 

[ScannerSK]

They are re-numbering some of the fire districts in Weld.

Weld County - 5280Fire

Aims Community College Fire Science Ault-Pierce Fire Protection District (2000) Briggsdale Fire Protection District (2100) Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control Eaton Fire Protection District (2300) Evans Fire Protection District (2400) Fort Lupton Fire Protection District (2600)...

5280fire.com

200s appear to be Mountain View Fire Rescue (200) and is dispatched by both Boulder and Weld counties.

Shawn

 

[oscarcrimaldi]

Yeah I've noticed the same thing. I believe it's the same Mountain View units now just calling as they do in Weld County, so the unit type is stated verbally (engine/truck/tower/brush/battalion etc) and then followed by the station the unit is based out of (Station 1 would be 201, Station 2 would be 202), etc. For example 2201 has become "Engine 201," 2216 is "Tower 205" and so on (I assume the pattern continues for most units). Not sure what the rationale for the change was and honestly seems overly confusing when the entire rest of the county is on AABB callsign structure.

 

[scanlist]

200 series are Mountain View. Weld dispatch is in the process of changing department ID's for whatever reason. I suspect it has to
do with their CAD system. Other departments have had their designators changed recently as well including Greeley.

Weld dispatch has been going through phases in dispatching fire agencies this year and keeps changing. Earlier in the year they were using unique talk-groups with automated voice dispatch for each station, aparatus, command staff then grouping several agencies within a talk-group some with 2 tone with a unique radio ID for each agency being dispatched. Noticed this week that the automated dispatch is offline and the dispatchers are back to verbally announcing the calls on the alert groups and on the primary dispatch groups.

The 5280 fire site referenced in mesage 2 in this thread has been keeping up with the department call sign changes.

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[oscarcrimaldi]

Sounds like there is now additional renumbering of the districts in the County beyond Mountain View. The consortium agencies (career departments in the "plains" part of the County) have already switched over to a 3-digit system starting with the resource type and then the unit number.

City of Boulder is 100, Mountain View is 200, Boulder Rural is 300, Lafayette is 400, Louisville is 500. I think in part due to the limitations of the County's CAD, all of the consortium districts decided to number their stations sequentially. Mountain View's stations are #01 - #12 respectively, Boulder Rural's stations are #22 and #23, Lafayette is #24 and #25, and Lousiville is #26 and #27. Not sure what the City of Boulder will be. So for example the engine from Mountain View station 1, formerly 2201, is now Engine 201. Former Boulder Rural 2301 is Engine 323, etc.

For right now it seems that the City is still using their AABB structure on the CBIRS P25 system (e.g. 2501, 2570, etc.) but might use the Resource ### structure if/when they get an AMA with County (2502 = Engine 142?). Likewise, all of the volunteer districts in the mountains are using AABB as well as RMR, BES, ESU, etc.

 

[oscarcrimaldi]

The Boulder County wiki has been updated with the new number series. Looks like 5280Fire has been keeping up with the changes as well.