Fire EMS Station Numbering

[colliers_628]

Does anybody in CT besides Tolland County use or have a countywide station numbering system?

 

[PJH]

Most, if not all of the regional centers do...TN (Tolland), QV, WW, LCD, etc. Most departments in the state are dispatched by the local police departments and follow whatever works for them.

Some multiple department towns may break up the numbers by department, some don't. The state has a town code system, but as there may be several departments in the same town, that doesn't work for fire (but usually for EMS).

For instance, you can have Station 46 in Tolland and a station 46 in Litchfield (don't know if there is one, but just saying).

 

[cg]

- TN, QV, WW, KX use numbers
- LCD uses names
- Valley Shore uses numbers

chris

 

[colliers_628]

cg,

can you list them for me

 

[moonies]

I would buy the newengland comms guide by servicemastr,available at lentini comms in newington for 10-12 bucks. covers ct,ma, nh, and lists all you need with pl/dc tones and all else!!

 

[dittrimd]

Here is what I have

1 Willimantic
2 North Windham
3 Windham Center
4 South Windham
5 Columbia
6 Lebanon
7 Eagleville Departments have merged now Mansfield as of 1/2006
8 South Coventry
9 Chaplain
10 Hebron
11 North Coventry
12 Hampton
13 Willington #1(South)
14
15 Andover
16 Scotland
17 No Longer in Use (Mansfield)
19 Tolland Dive Team
20 Ashford
21 Salem
22 UCONN at Storrs
23
24 Baltic
25 Franklin
26 Bozrah
27 Gardner Lake (Salem)
28 Colchester
29
30
31 Windham Hospital Medic
32 Windham Hospital Medic (Saturday 9am to 9pm)
32 Mansfield Training School
33
34 Bolton
35 Taftville (Norwich)
36 Yantic (Norwich)
37 Occum (Norwich)
38 Warehouse Point (E Windsor)
538 East Windsor Ambulance Service
39 Broad Brook (E Windsor)
40 Tolland
41 Vernon
42 Crystal Lake (Ellington)
43 Ellington
543 Ellington Ambulance
44 West Stafford
45 Staffordville
46 Somers
47 No longer in use (Used to be Stafford Springs now merged with Staffordville)
547 Stafford Ambulance
48 Tri County Fire Police
49 Willington Hill
50
51 East Great Plains (Norwich)
51 No longer used State Prison (Enfield / Somers)(Somers fire now covers)
52 Laurel Hill (Norwich)
53 Voluntown
54 Lisbon
55 Griswold
56 Jewett City (Griswold)
57 Preston City
58 Poquetanuck (Norwich)
60 Williamsville (Killingly)
61 Danielson (Killingly)
62 Attawaugan (Killingly)
63 Dayville (Killingly)
64 East Killingly
65 South Killingly
66
67 Sterling
68 Oneco (Sterling)
69
70 Pomfret
71 Eastford
72 Union
73
74
75 Muddy Brook (Woodstock)
76 Woodstock
77 Bungay (Woodstock)
78 Putnam
79 East Putnam
80
81 Community (Thompson)
82 West Thompson
83 Quinebaug (Thompson)
84 Thompson Hill
85 East Thompson
86
87
88
89
90 Mortlake (Brooklyn)
92 East Brooklyn
93 Canterbury
94 Moosup (Plainfield)
95 Plainfield
96 Atwood Hose (Plainfield)
97 Central Village (Plainfield)
98
99


Mark

 

[PJH]

51 - State fire dept no longer exists... Actually hasn't in at least 5 years I think

 

[dittrimd]

Thanks for the reminder. I missed that one when I made the post but have since updated. Thanks!

Mark

 

[colliers_628]

When i logged all the additional numbers to my counties i noticed that they are for more than 1 county. my question is the numbers that are blank are they used? and are there more fire depts up there that use them but u dont know them

 

[dittrimd]

My understanding was the regional dispatch centers agreed to break up the numbering. WW or Willimantic Switch Board was the original regional dispatch center and they were given the low numbers 1- whatever the original range was. As other dispatch centers became active and departments moved it started to become more disorganized. Right now if we have a new agency that needs a number we would look at that list and identify a number. We would then solicit feedback from the other regional dispatch centers to see if they are ok with this. I am only speaking for my regional dispatch center. I am not sure what the other ones do as far as new station numbering. The blanks to my knowledge are not in use by any of the other centers.

We have not faced a new station number issue in quite some time. Recently it has been departments merging and going from two station numbers to one. Stafford Spring Station 47 merged with Staffordville Station 45 and becam Station 45. When they created the Stafford Ambulance Association we assigned Station 547 as thier call sign. Mansfield Fire Station 17 and Eagleville Fire Statin 7 recently merged into the Mansfield Fire Department and they decided to keep Station 7.

Just out of curiosity why the interest in station numbers and in particular blank potentially unused numbers?

Mark

 

[oilmillcharlie]

My understanding was the regional dispatch centers agreed to break up the numbering. WW or Willimantic Switch Board was the original regional dispatch center and they were given the low numbers 1- whatever the original range was. As other dispatch centers became active and departments moved it started to become more disorganized. Right now if we have a new agency that needs a number we would look at that list and identify a number. We would then solicit feedback from the other regional dispatch centers to see if they are ok with this. I am only speaking for my regional dispatch center. I am not sure what the other ones do as far as new station numbering. The blanks to my knowledge are not in use by any of the other centers.

We have not faced a new station number issue in quite some time. Recently it has been departments merging and going from two station numbers to one. Stafford Spring Station 47 merged with Staffordville Station 45 and becam Station 45. When they created the Stafford Ambulance Association we assigned Station 547 as thier call sign. Mansfield Fire Station 17 and Eagleville Fire Statin 7 recently merged into the Mansfield Fire Department and they decided to keep Station 7.

Just out of curiosity why the interest in station numbers and in particular blank potentially unused numbers?

Mark

When apparatus are on the air, The listener can identify which department is being heard for one thing.