Chatham County Fire Dispatch

[KF4LMT]

Starting this morning, Chatham Metro Dispatch has made significant changes in how the fire departments in Chatham County are being dispatched. Based on casual listening throughout the day, it appears that all of the FDs except for Tybee and the Air Guard FD at Savannah-Hilton Head IAP are being dispatched by Metro, including Chatham Emergency Services' fire units. Furthermore, some unit renumbering has taken place; Savannah FD units are using the same unit numbers, but Pooler FD is using 6## unit numbers and Chatham Emergency Services fire units are using 3## unit numbers. For incident channels, it seems that they have converted Savannah FD's fireground channels and Metro's fire tac channels into countywide fireground channels (there are at least 10).

I recorded today's traffic and will be reviewing the recordings later tonight to better figure out what they're doing. I should be able to post a reply to this post tomorrow morning with talkgroup and unit numbering updates.

 

[KF4LMT]

Here's what I was able to glean from yesterday's recordings. The 500-series talkgroups that are new seem to be in testing, the recordings didn't have them being used for dispatch yet. I'll see what today brings and work up and update to submit for the database tonight.

Chatham Metro Dispatch/Fireground SEGARRN Talkgroups
TG 2305 - Formerly Savannah FD Dispatch, now Metro Fire Dispatch
TG 223 - Formerly Chatham Metro Fire Dispatch, now Chatham Metro Fire Admin?
TG 2311 - Formerly Savannah FD Fireground 1, now Metro Fireground 1
TG 2313 - Formerly Savannah FD Fireground 2, now Metro Fireground 2
TG 2315 - Formerly Savannah FD Fireground 3, now Metro Fireground 3
TG 2359 - Formerly Savannah FD Fireground 4, now Metro Fireground 4
TG 2309 - Formerly Savannah FD Fireground 5, now Metro Fireground 5
TG 2363 - Formerly Savannah FD Fireground 6, now Metro Fireground 6
TG 2365 - Formerly Savannah FD Fireground 7, now Metro Fireground 7
TG 227 - Formerly Chatham Metro Fire Tac 1, now Metro Fireground 8
TG 229 - Formerly Chatham Metro Fire Tac 2, now Metro Fireground 9
TG 231 - Formerly Chatham Metro Fire Tac 3, now Metro Fireground 10
TG 233 - Formerly Chatham Metro Fire Tac 4, now Metro Fireground 11
TG 237 - Formerly Chatham Metro Fire Tac 6, now Metro Fireground 13?

TG 854 - Bloomingdale FD Paging
TG 856 - Garden City FD Paging
TG 857 - Isle of Hope FD Paging
TG 858 - Pooler FD Paging
TG 859 - Port Wentworth FD Paging
TG 860 - Thunderbolt FD Paging

New Talkgroups
TG 525 - Savannah FD Station 1 Paging?
TG 526 - Savannah FD Station 2 Paging?
TG 527 - Savannah FD Station 3 Paging?
TG 528 - Savannah FD Station 4 Paging?
TG 529 - Savannah FD Station 5 Paging?
TG 530 - Savannah FD Station 6 Paging?
TG 531 - Savannah FD Station 7 Paging?
TG 532 - Savannah FD Station 8 Paging?
TG 533 - Savannah FD Station 9 Paging?
TG 534 - Savannah FD Station 10 Paging?
TG 535 - Savannah FD Station 11 Paging?
TG 536 - Savannah FD Station 12 Paging?
TG 537 - Savannah FD Station 11 Paging?
TG 538 - Savannah FD Station 12 Paging?
TG 539 - Savannah FD Station 13 Paging?
TG 540 - Savannah FD Station 14 Paging?
TG 541 - Savannah FD Station 15 Paging?
TG 547 - Unknown, Metro clg Garden City FD for night mode test page (patched w TG 2305)
TG 548 - Unknown, Metro clg Garden City FD for night mode test page (patched w TG 2305)



Fire Department Unit Numbering
## - Savannah FD
2## - Garden City FD
3## - Chatham Emergency Services fire units
4## - Port Wentworth FD
5## - Thunderbolt FD
6## - Pooler FD
8## - Bloomingdale FD

 

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New Talkgroups
TG 525 - Savannah FD Station 1 Paging?
TG 526 - Savannah FD Station 2 Paging?
TG 527 - Savannah FD Station 3 Paging?
TG 528 - Savannah FD Station 4 Paging?
TG 529 - Savannah FD Station 5 Paging?
TG 530 - Savannah FD Station 6 Paging?
TG 531 - Savannah FD Station 7 Paging?
TG 532 - Savannah FD Station 8 Paging?
TG 533 - Savannah FD Station 9 Paging?
TG 534 - Savannah FD Station 10 Paging?
TG 535 - Savannah FD Station 11 Paging?
TG 536 - Savannah FD Station 12 Paging?
TG 537 - Savannah FD Station 11 Paging?
TG 538 - Savannah FD Station 12 Paging?
TG 539 - Savannah FD Station 13 Paging?
TG 540 - Savannah FD Station 14 Paging?
TG 541 - Savannah FD Station 15 Paging?
TG 547 - Unknown, Metro clg Garden City FD for night mode test page (patched w TG 2305)
TG 548 - Unknown, Metro clg Garden City FD for night mode test page (patched w TG 2305)

Based on recent monitoring, I think some of these new 5## talkgroups may be Paging/Night Dispatch for Chatham Emergency Services fire stations. I'll try to keep this thread updated as I figure things out. If anyone else is figuring it out, please post as well.

Mac
KF4LMT

 

[KF4LMT]

I submitted these for the database earlier this morning, but here are the Station Paging/Night Dispatch talkgroups I've heard/seen on the SEGARRN for the various fire departments in Chatham County. I haven't been able to figure out which Chatham Emergency Services station dispatch talkgroups are assigned to which stations, so if anyone is able to figure them out, please submit/post; most of the time I'm only in Savannah for two days a week, so I don't get a lot of time to listen for them.

TG 301 - Fire Dispatch - BFD Sta Page - Bloomingdale FD Paging/Night Dispatch - Fire Dispatch

TG 342 - Fire Dispatch - PFD Sta 1 Page - Pooler FD Station 1 Paging/Night Dispatch - Fire Dispatch
TG 343 - Fire Dispatch - PFD Sta 2 Page - Pooler FD Station 2 Paging/Night Dispatch - Fire Dispatch
TG 344 - Fire Dispatch - PFD Sta 3 Page - Pooler FD Station 3 Paging/Night Dispatch - Fire Dispatch
TG 345 - Fire Dispatch - PFD Sta 4 Page - Pooler FD Station 4 Paging/Night Dispatch - Fire Dispatch
TG 346 - Fire Dispatch - PFD Sta 5 Page - Pooler FD Station 5 Paging/Night Dispatch - Fire Dispatch

TG 525 - Fire Dispatch - CES Sta ? Page - Chatham ES Station Paging/Night Dispatch - Fire Dispatch
TG 526 - Fire Dispatch - CES Sta ? Page - Chatham ES Station Paging/Night Dispatch - Fire Dispatch
TG 527 - Fire Dispatch - CES Sta ? Page - Chatham ES Station Paging/Night Dispatch - Fire Dispatch
TG 528 - Fire Dispatch - CES Sta ? Page - Chatham ES Station Paging/Night Dispatch - Fire Dispatch
TG 529 - Fire Dispatch - CES Sta ? Page - Chatham ES Station Paging/Night Dispatch - Fire Dispatch
TG 530 - Fire Dispatch - CES Sta ? Page - Chatham ES Station Paging/Night Dispatch - Fire Dispatch
TG 531 - Fire Dispatch - CES Sta ? Page - Chatham ES Station Paging/Night Dispatch - Fire Dispatch
TG 532 - Fire Dispatch - CES Sta ? Page - Chatham ES Station Paging/Night Dispatch - Fire Dispatch
TG 533 - Fire Dispatch - CES Sta ? Page - Chatham ES Station Paging/Night Dispatch - Fire Dispatch
TG 534 - Fire Dispatch - CES Sta ? Page - Chatham ES Station Paging/Night Dispatch - Fire Dispatch
TG 535 - Fire Dispatch - CES Sta ? Page - Chatham ES Station Paging/Night Dispatch - Fire Dispatch
TG 536 - Fire Dispatch - CES Sta ? Page - Chatham ES Station Paging/Night Dispatch - Fire Dispatch
TG 537 - Fire Dispatch - CES Sta ? Page - Chatham ES Station Paging/Night Dispatch - Fire Dispatch
TG 538 - Fire Dispatch - CES Sta ? Page - Chatham ES Station Paging/Night Dispatch - Fire Dispatch
TG 539 - Fire Dispatch - CES Sta ? Page - Chatham ES Station Paging/Night Dispatch - Fire Dispatch
TG 540 - Fire Dispatch - CES Sta ? Page - Chatham ES Station Paging/Night Dispatch - Fire Dispatch

TG 547 - Fire Dispatch - GCFD Sta 1 Page - Garden City FD Station 1 Paging/Night Dispatch - Fire Dispatch
TG 548 - Fire Dispatch - GCFD Sta 1 Page - Garden City FD Station 2 Paging/Night Dispatch - Fire Dispatch

 

[mikeybus44]

Thanks for the updates.... I've been down from NY the last few days visiting family in the Rincon area and for the first time was actually able to follow a few calls from dispatch to FG, etc.
BTW, do you know of any kind of profile online giving Chatham ES stations and apparatus listing? Not alot of info out there?