Benton County Fire

[kd7jfv]

Can someone with knowledge of the Benton County area take a look a the county page https://www.radioreference.com/db/browse/ctid/2960 and let me know if this statement is still correct:

Fire / EMS​

This system includes Benton County Fire Districts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Cities of Benton City, Kennewick, Prosser, West Richland and outlying rural areas. These are the new Benton County VHF Fire frequencies. 800mhz is no longer used for fire.​

I am asking because the 800 mhz system has fire talkgroups on it and I have received a submission updating fire talkgroups.

 

[cinsu]

I don't live in Benton but as someone who tracks fires in Benton on a daily basis the 800mhz is still very alive. All verifiable via calls.

 

[icom1020]

Probably more so now that Franklin county has new 800 mhz sites along the Snake R on the Walla Walla side and near Othello.

 

[ScanYak]

My monitoring observations on the Benton County 800 system if it'll help.
It appears there are more 800 digital fire radios being tested and coming online along with the older conventional radios that have been patched into the system.
I see someone has been able to come up with the "Ops" talk groups.
I will include a snapshot of the frequencies I captured the middle of last month on DSDPlus, it shows two additional talk channel frequencies.

 

[kd7jfv]

Ok, I'm going to delete that and put a link to the 800 system as it seems they're heading that way. Thank you