Washington County Fire Stations

[Gilligan]

Is there a master list of Washington County fire stations and medic posts?

I've heard Medic-75 dispatched and put together that the ambulances are prefixed with 75, like 75-5 and 75-9. Is Medic-75 a whole company of ambulances, or is it just one station, or is it the entire Community Rescue Service?

 

[Gilligan]

By the way, I'm hearing some kind of vehicle repeaters for Fire/EMS on 453.4875 (151.4 PL).

 

[KGC676]

Sharpsburg-Company 1
Williamsport-Company 2
Clear Spring-Company 4
Hancock-Company 5
Boonsboro-Company 6
Smithsburg-Company 7
Rohersville-Company 8
Leitersburg-Company 9
Funkstown-Company 10
Potomac Valley-Company 11
Fairplay-Company 12
Maugansville-Company 13
Washington County Special Operations 20
Washington County Air Unit 25 and Rehab Unit 255
Halfway-Company 26
Longmeadow-Company 27
Washington County Regional Airport-Company 35


Hagerstown Fire Companies

Engine 1
Engine 2
Engine 3
Engine 4,Truck 4
Engine 5
Truck 1
Utility 3


Ambulance Companies

Williamsport-Rescue Company 2
Sharpsburg-Rescue Company 19
Clear Spring-Rescue Company 49
Hancock-Rescue Company 59
Boonsboro-Rescue Company 69
Smithsburg-Rescue Company 79

Community Rescue Service-Company 75 (All are medic staffed)
Ambulances 751,752,753,755
Ambulance 754- Located at City Station 4
Maugansville 759

 

[markandjere]

You may be hearing traffic from Franklin County Pa. They use 453.xxxx for fire operations .

 

[Gilligan]

You may be hearing traffic from Franklin County Pa. They use 453.xxxx for fire operations .

Thanks for the info. I'm actually finding that the county uses 453 MHz for many of their vehicle repeaters and seems to separate different departments by PL tone. They have quite a few on 458.3875. You can normally only hear vehicle repeaters from a mile or so away, so I'm fairly certain that these belong to Washington County, and I believe this freq/tone is probably for Fire/EMS.

 

[markandjere]

More users

I see that MD Dept. of Corrections , Franklin Co. Fire Pa , Allegany Co. Md and Fairview Twp ,York County all use 453.4875 according to the FCC website.

 

[Gilligan]

By the way, I'm hearing some kind of vehicle repeaters for Fire/EMS on 453.4875 (151.4 PL).

You may be hearing traffic from Franklin County Pa. They use 453.xxxx for fire operations .

You were right -- this was in the database and I didn't see it. It is already licensed and listed with that tone under Franklin County, PA. Thanks so much.

 

[spanner]

Is there a master list of Washington County fire stations and medic posts?

I've heard Medic-75 dispatched and put together that the ambulances are prefixed with 75, like 75-5 and 75-9. Is Medic-75 a whole company of ambulances, or is it just one station, or is it the entire Community Rescue Service?

The entire company is Community Rescue Service. Co-75.

759 is in Maugansville.

There for a while, they were assigning an ambulance out of Engine 2 in the City, but not sure if they are still doing it.

 

[Gilligan]

I see that Community Rescue Service has a VHF license on 155.205 for 1 base and 12 mobiles (KGE240). Has anyone every monitored any of their activities on this frequency?

 

[kb3jkc]

I see that Community Rescue Service has a VHF license on 155.205 for 1 base and 12 mobiles (KGE240). Has anyone every monitored any of their activities on this frequency?

As far as I know, that VHF highband freq has not been used by CRS for many, many years - possibly not since the late 70's or early 80's at the latest. I'll stand corrected if anyone has better info, but I'm pretty confident that I'm right.

 

[spanner]

Correct, last time I was in station 75, the license was still there, but they have not used that for freq for at least 25 years.

 

[Gilligan]

Wow. I didn't realize how old the license was. When I thought it was newer, I thought it might be used for ambulance-to-ambulance or something like that. Even as a backup system. I think I remember hearing once that their radios are pretty much able to do any EMS freq -- that they can just punch up a freq and talk (for interoperability). I'm sure they have channels set up for normal operations, though.