Thruway Question

[sc800]

Just now, a trooper on I-87 called "New York" to request an ambulance for an evaluation.

New York then called Woodbury over the radio and asked them to dispatch EMS.


I have a few questions.

1. Who is "Woodbury"? Is it the toll plaza at Woodbury, or Woodbury PD dispatch?
2. Why did they call "Woodbury" rather than using the PSAP to contact Orange 911?

I kind of think Woodbury is the PD dispatch, because after that transmission, I heard Woodbury EMS call into the county, but not get paged by them.

 

[snorkle]

woodbury is a toll plaza. toll collectors call ems and fire. the dispatcher calls the towing service for the area. toll collecters use to call the tow trucks too. I am a retired thruway dispatcher

 

[studgeman]

To expound on that a little, New York, is the New York City Sector of the Thruway or Zone 1. It covers I87 from the City line to about Newburgh and I84 and I95 in Westchester. The Thruway is considered a "private" road, so the rules are a little different. The toll plazas are identified by a distinct name, usually the city or the name of a road. Listen on the hour for roll call, where the dispatchers in Albany check in with all the manned interchanges.

 

[SCANdal]

...after that transmission, I heard Woodbury EMS call into the county, but not get paged by them.

8,

That's because Woodbury Community Ambulance is one of the six volunteer corps* in the county not dispatched by Orange 9-1-1. They are paged out by the Woodbury Police Department over Woodbury's Local Government channel. All corps (except Kiryas Joel) do check in with Orange 9-1-1 after being dispatched, to allow "718" to track available and unavailable assets.

SCANdal

* the other five being:
- Tuxedo (dispatched by Tuxedo Police "Mobile 1")
- Greenwood Lake, Pine Island and Warwick (dispatched by Warwick Police "200 C")
- Kiryas Joel (dispatched by "K-Base")
- New Windsor (dispatched by New Windsor Police "Base 5")

See http://ecscanning.com/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=1194 for frequency information for all the above agencies

 

[GTR8000]

To expound on that a little, New York, is the New York City Sector of the Thruway or Zone 1. It covers I87 from the City line to about Newburgh and I84 and I95 in Westchester. The Thruway is considered a "private" road, so the rules are a little different. The toll plazas are identified by a distinct name, usually the city or the name of a road. Listen on the hour for roll call, where the dispatchers in Albany check in with all the manned interchanges.

"New York" is zones 1 and 5, not just 1. I87 "Mainline" coverage is from the Bronx/Westchester line where the Deegan turns into the Thruway, up to the New Paltz toll barrier/service area in Ulster County at MM 76. Zone 1 covers up to around Airmont Rd in Rockland County, and becomes Zone 5 from there on up. In addition to I84 and I95, they also cover the Cross Westchester (I84 coverage ends in a few days, goes back to DOT and the local Troops).

The toll barriers are responsible for dealing with the local yokels as far as calling 911 for FD/EMS response. It should be noted that Rockland County has all wireless 911 calls routed to the county 911 center (44-Control), so in most cases FD/EMS is already dispatched as the Thruway is being notified.

The toll barriers within Zones 1 and 5 south to north are:

New Rochelle, Yonkers, Tarrytown, Spring Valley, Woodbury, Harriman, Newburgh, New Paltz

 

[sc800]

How do the toll barriers contact 911 for fire and ems?

Do they do it by an actual phone, or do they use a PSAP one touch transfer.

Also, who at the toll booth actually has the radios? All of them, just the supervisor?

 

[comspec]

Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry8310/4.5.0.110 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/102)

North of there it becomes "Albany". I don't know what happens when you go west on I-90, but I do know all the dispatchers sit right next to each other in the Albany HQ building.

 

[Warthog1]

West of the Albany sector it becomes Syracuse.

 

[snorkle]

syracue section starts at mp 198-350
every toll booth has a radio handset.
the dispatcher change zones every day. Just by moving to the next consol