Fire Talk Groups Mostly Common

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EMTBob

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I Live In WPa And Venture Down To Maryland At Times Taking My G5 And SDS 100. What Are The Common Fire Ops Channels Used In Garrett, Agy, Wsh, Mtgy, Fred, PG, Carroll, Howard, AA, Balto County & Balto City. I Would Like To Just Program Those Instead Of The Numerous Others That Are Rairly Used. Thanks For Your Time Folks Happy Safe Weekend
 

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Montgomery County:

7A1 - TG4000 - Main Ops Talkgroup ( VHF = 150.995 )
7A2 - TG4005 - Dispatch Talkgroup ( VHF = 154.160 )
7A4 - TG4015 - Major Events ( Fires, large incidents etc... )


If you interested EMRC ( Emergency Medical Resource Center ) Patches are also available. Link to more info here

7H1 EMRC Patch: TG4385
7H2 Consult 1: TG4390
7H3 Consult 2: TG4395

Those are the main ones that are used. Hope this helps :) Feel free to ask any questions as well :)


Frederick:
I am not as familiar with but here are the ones I have programmed in.

9A - TG5440 - Main Dispatch ( VHF = 153.845 )
9B - TG5441 - EMS Ops
9C - TG5442 - Minor Incidents
9D - TG5443 - Major Incidents

EMRC Patches are available on

92C - EMRC Call 1
92D - EMRC Med 4
92E - EMRC Med 8


Some other stuff you might be interested in:

if you are going to be listening to the communications while driving I would recommend programming in...

MDOT CHART ( They assist with accidents and other incidents on MD highways ) Home
MSP ( Maryland State Police Patrol state highways and assist local jurisdictions ) Maryland State Police

If you want more info about county-specific talkgroups for CHART and MSP I can help you out... just let me know :)


- Bjc123
 

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Thanks Not Really Into PD Just Fire And Rescue. I Figured There Are A Ton On Unsued TG's For Just In Case.

My County Has 9

3 Major
3 Moderate
3 Basic

And A Simplex T/A
 

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Baltimore County Fire
TG9450 - BCoFD Main (Fire Dispatch)
TG9451 - BCoFD Central (Divisional Talk group)
TG9453 - BCoFD East (Divisional Talk group)
TG9454 - BCoFD West (Divisional Talk group)
TG9462 - BCoFD Tac 12 (Central Tac Channel)
TG9482 - BCoFD Tac 22 (West Tac Channel)
TG9502 - BCoFD Tac 32 (East Tac Channel)

Baltimore City Fire
TG9001 - BCFD A1 Main (Divisional)
TG9002 - BCFD A2 Dispatch
TG9014 - Fireground 1
TG9006 - Fireground 2
TG9029 - Fireground 3
TG9038 - Fireground 4
 

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Washington County Maryland System --

TG13463 - Fire/EMS Dispatch
TG13466 - Fire Tac 1 Ops
TG13479 - Fire Public Safety 1

These are the most active ones from my monitoring
 

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Keep in mind that working fires will almost always be assigned an Incident tg in the systems that use the Incident talkgroup structure. Each Incident group has several associated tgs. Most of the time, all operations use the main tg, e.g Incident 20, but if a staging or water supply officer is designated, they may use their own tg that is related, e.g. Incident 21, Incident 22, etc. The Announce 20 tg would be heard on all Incident 2x tgs. Incident tgs can be assigned on a first come, first served basis, or they may be assigned on a battalion or regional basis - depends on the jurisdiction. Ops tgs are typically used for local alarms, minor traffic accidents, etc., and can be regionalized. Many Maryland counties use the Incident tg structure in some form, but may not use the Incident labels.

Specific notes:

AACo is divided into 2 regions (North / South) and they tend to use every tg in Zone 1. It's a very busy system, so I would program them all (except maybe 1N, which is the administration tg.) Also, the G5 doesn't do SmartZone.
 
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Also, Garrett and Allegany counties use the FIRST system for their fire services, although they retain some of their legacy systems.
 

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(this is a very busy system, btw...)

1133 - 8A1 = MAIN DISPATCH
1135 - 8A2 = OPS1 (mostly medic calls)
1037 - 8A3 = Used as main FG channel
1115 - 8B7 = Medic1 to Hospitals
1117 - 8B8 = Medic2 to Hospitals


8A1/B1/C1/D1 Fire Dispatch are all the same talkgroup
8A2/8B2/8C2 Ops 1 are all the same talkgroup
8A3/8B3/8C3 FG are all the same talkgroup

8B7, 8B8 are not

PS - if you are close enough with a SDS to pick up Montgomery and PG - you’ll definitely be able to get DCFD fairly well😁
 
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