Does anyone have any information about the current radio systems used by the Tokyo Fire Department? Do the volunteers use the same radio channels as the paid firefighters?
There is some 2011 / 2013 info here - Japan Police, Fire, Ambulance Radios? - which seems to be reflected in the RRDB at - Tokyo-to - Tokyo Metropolitan Government Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference
I put together a map of Tokyo fire stations at
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1Sedmq1BucK5nj-OO-jslKUyNcC8&usp=sharing
The map now has a VOL (volunteer) layer and a PAID layer - plus the earlier combined layer
Map still needs more work - it will be a never ending job to keep this map relevant
The vol layer has 710 entries - paid layer has 316 entries - (some are old stations - some are duplicate entries)
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Here is a very brief overview of Tokyo FD
- 2 dispatch centers - EAST (downtown / '23 wards') - and - WEST (Tama)
- approx 300 paid stations - 200 are "branch" stations that have 2 pumpers and 1 ambulance each - 100 are battalion HQs (they call them "fire stations") - the batt HQs typically have 2 pumpers, 1 ladder, 1 ambulance, and 1 battalion chiefs van each - ambulances have crews of 3 people - fire trucks have crews of 4 people
- approx 700 volunteer stations - the eastern volunteer stations have mini pumpers or hand drawn carts with portable pumps and hose (even in downtown) - the western volunteer stations have minipumpers (some are in the mountains) - (possibly the eastern volunteer stations only respond to disasters - typically typhoons or earthquakes)
Every paid pumper has a built in hand drawn hose cart - many streets are very narrow - many neighborhoods seem to have only cisterns (no hydrants)
There is some 2011 / 2013 info here - Japan Police, Fire, Ambulance Radios? - which seems to be reflected in the RRDB at - Tokyo-to - Tokyo Metropolitan Government Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference
I put together a map of Tokyo fire stations at
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1Sedmq1BucK5nj-OO-jslKUyNcC8&usp=sharing
The map now has a VOL (volunteer) layer and a PAID layer - plus the earlier combined layer
Map still needs more work - it will be a never ending job to keep this map relevant
The vol layer has 710 entries - paid layer has 316 entries - (some are old stations - some are duplicate entries)
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Here is a very brief overview of Tokyo FD
- 2 dispatch centers - EAST (downtown / '23 wards') - and - WEST (Tama)
- approx 300 paid stations - 200 are "branch" stations that have 2 pumpers and 1 ambulance each - 100 are battalion HQs (they call them "fire stations") - the batt HQs typically have 2 pumpers, 1 ladder, 1 ambulance, and 1 battalion chiefs van each - ambulances have crews of 3 people - fire trucks have crews of 4 people
- approx 700 volunteer stations - the eastern volunteer stations have mini pumpers or hand drawn carts with portable pumps and hose (even in downtown) - the western volunteer stations have minipumpers (some are in the mountains) - (possibly the eastern volunteer stations only respond to disasters - typically typhoons or earthquakes)
Every paid pumper has a built in hand drawn hose cart - many streets are very narrow - many neighborhoods seem to have only cisterns (no hydrants)