Arlington Fire

[southradio]

While headed east on I-84 recently, I found a hit on 154.055, finding it was used to tap out Arlington Fire. Don't see it listed in the database and we were probably 25 miles east of the brush fire location along I-84 when it was tapped. Couldn't detect if that might have been an input to a repeater or if they use 154.055 instead of 154.325 as shown in DB for north Gilliam County fire. Heard a second tap out about 10 minutes later as apparently there hadn't been any radio response from Arlington Fire units. They ended up sending units from Irrigon and Boardman to fight the fire as well. When we drove by on the trip home, we could see where the fire had occurred in the median between the two directions of the freeway.

 

[PMJ2kx]

WQKC488 (GILLIAM COUNTY 911) FCC Callsign Details

You probably heard 154.0475 - not in the DB either.

 

[Fielder3]

Gilliam County

I thought that Morrow County Fire (Boardman, and Irrigon) are on 800 Motorola II system with Law. Are the on VHF broadcasting too?


Heard a second tap out about 10 minutes later as apparently there hadn't been any radio response from Arlington Fire units. They ended up sending units from Irrigon and Boardman to fight the fire as well. When we drove by on the trip home, we could see where the fire had occurred in the median between the two directions of the freeway.[/QUOTE]

 

[ORE-Scanner]

Arlington Fire is 154.075 - tone 565.
Condon Fire is 155.1825 - tone unkn

Boardman and Irrigon are on the 450 System but still use VHF for paging as they are both primary volunteer fire departments. Irrigon is 154.725 and Boardman is 154.235

 

[southradio]

Additional on Arlington Fire

I should have mentioned that I did hear the tapout for Boardman and Irrigon on the Umatilla-Morrow Counties UHF TRS. Thanks for the additional info on Arlington and Condon fire frequencies. I'll be traveling through the area again later this month and will see what can be heard on those along with the corrected Arlington tapout frequency.