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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