Yavapai County Fire Consortium

[firecaptdave]

Does anyone know anything about the new Yavapai County Fire Consortium? It's going to be a combination of multiple FDs, but will they maintain their individual identities or will they all become one department under one name? And, who'll dispatch for them and what freqs will they use?

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TIA

 

[GlobalNorth]

The 'Yavapai County Fire Consortium' is a group of four very small fire agencies spread across the county. They are Bagdad, Crown King, Mayer, and Williamson Valley.

They are likely to stay on their own frequencies since a 'build out' makes no sense geographically, fiscally, personnel-wise, or resource wise. Dispatch is likely to stay the same.

I suspect that they did this to consolidate purchasing.

 

[MiCon]

The 'Yavapai County Fire Consortium' is a group of four very small fire agencies spread across the county. They are Bagdad, Crown King, Mayer, and Williamson Valley.

They are likely to stay on their own frequencies since a 'build out' makes no sense geographically, fiscally, personnel-wise, or resource wise. Dispatch is likely to stay the same.

I suspect that they did this to consolidate purchasing.

Is this a new grouping of these FD's?
Could this have anything to do with the fact that I'm no longer hearing anything on 150.805, a frequency these departments were using up until about a month ago?

 

[GlobalNorth]

It's a bit unusual for Arizona. It would take a rather long time for Williamson Valley to respond to a formal Mutual Aid call from Bagdad, even on a Code 3 run,

I rarely visit rural southern YC, so I can't speculate on frequency use or lack thereof.

 

[Ravenfalls]

From my understanding, each department will be independent and would remain its own entity. The only thing in common is dispatch. Each agency has a secondary channel if nessesary.

Dispatch chanell for each agency is or was linked without further changes Like PL when RM was dispatching.

Possible the agencies noticed the RM dispatchers were overwhelmed with Maricopa County units. Causing the Yav agencies to decided on another avenue for their dispatching??? Prescott regional?

BCC removed RM as dispatch and the city units are now DMFD. Maybe Mayer is part of DMFD now???? BCC & Mayer often work together.