Re: 911:: Unit Standardization...

[Guest guest]

Where I work part-time, each fire department (they're all volunteer agencies)

have a different hundred series. I have no idea what type of equipment 101

is or 406. They take out what ever they need, there is no specialized

dispatching.

If you do specialized dispatching, by which I mean the dispatcher dispatches

pumpers or ladders or heavy rescue rigs, then perhaps a way to do it is still

with hundred series, such as pumper101 for agency A, pumper 201 etc.

At my home agency, our fire dept is also volunteer, and they roll out what

they need. If it's a water rescue call, we'd better dispatch it as such so

everyone knows the water rescue truck needs to go, but we don't air the call

as " water rescue respond to........... " unlike the area full time departments

who will dispatch " engine 1, truck 1 respond......... "

Kathy

[Guest guest]

We have some standardization in the county stations. Each station is its own

entity since they are each a volunteer company. They did however " standardize "

for dispatch. Basically the number of the station is the first number for each

unit then they number consecutively: ie. Station 2- Brush 23, Engine 24,

Tanker 26, etc. The only tower in the county put the station number last- Tower

18 at Station 8. No stations have run out of numbers yet but that could easily

be corrected by number different types of equipment the same, ie. Engine 24,

Tanker 24. Hope this helps.

Charlottesvill, VA Fire Dept.

www.cfdonline.org

B

[Guest guest]

See if this helps. Here's our unit numbering system:

1 engine

2 engine

3 engine

4 field piece

5 tanker

6 aerial

7 utility (catch-all)

8 ambulance

9 rescue

<and of course, officers>

10 Chief

10a Deputy Chief

10b Battalion Chief

10c 1st Assistant Chief

10d 2nd Assistant Chief

11 Fire Police Captain

11a Fire Police Lieutenant

12 Ems Captain

12a Ems Lieutenant

We have 24 independent fire companies, and 13 ambulance squads.

The station number is first, followed by the unit number. For example, an

engine out of

station 6 is called " 6-3 " . Battalion Chief in Station 12 is " 12-10b "

If a company or squad has more than one of a certain type of unit,

subsequent units get a letter behind

the unit number. For example, Squad 13 has 2 ambulances, " 13-8 " , and " 13-8a " .

Station 18 has 2 tankers and 2 brush trucks, " 18-5 & 18-5a " (tankers), and

" 18-4 & 18-4a " (brush).

The utility number (7) can pretty much be anything that does not fit into

another category. Salem (Station 6)

has an air cascade truck, that's all it does, it's called " 6-7 " . Station 5 has

a hose tender (pick up truck), it's

called " 5-7 " .

If a station has a chief's car, it's called " car - <station number> " . For

Station 6 that would be " Car-6 " .

For ambulance captains (highest rank in our EMS), their car, if they have one,

is called the same as the

fire chiefs, but add a letter behind it. So squad 6's captains car is " Car-6a " .

Specialized units that cannot fit into any category are as follows (using

the unit type, then the station number:

Marine 18 (boat)

Scuba 12 (Dive Trailer)

You get the picture .....

Hope this helps.

J. Fred

Salem NJ

Rich wrote:

> We are looking for ideas on how to standardize radio identifiers for fire

> department equipment and stations. We currently dispatch for 15 fire

> departments with 15 different numbering schemes. Our dispatchers are having

> to memorize 500 different pieces of apparatus. Is there any agency out

> there that dispatches for multiple fire departments that standardize their

> radio ID's?

>

> Rich

[Guest guest]

Rich,

Sort of like Amber, in our county (11 fire departments) each agency has a

number and then each type of

apparatus has a number. For example - Richfield Township Fire Departments

pumper would be 325 and Denton Townships

pumper would be 125. I'm not sure if this is a Michigan thing our just a

county wide thing, but it sure makes

it easier on us. However, we are not responsible for knowing what each

apparatus is, just the number of the unit

that is responding.

Hope this helps. Good Luck.

Roscommon (MI) Central Dispatch

At 09:11 AM 11/6/01 -0600, you wrote:

>We are looking for ideas on how to standardize radio identifiers for fire

>department equipment and stations. We currently dispatch for 15 fire

>departments with 15 different numbering schemes. Our dispatchers are having

>to memorize 500 different pieces of apparatus. Is there any agency out

>there that dispatches for multiple fire departments that standardize their

>radio ID's?

>

>Rich

[Guest guest]

We do not tell the stations what to take either. EXCEPT when it's a mutual aid

request. If the commander requests a tanker out of station 18 (for example), we

dispatch " Tanker 18, in whatever township, such & such location, assist on a

whatever " .

dsptchmom@... (Kathy) wrote: (with a snip here and there)

> They take out what ever they need, there is no specialized

> dispatching.

>

> If it's a water rescue call, we'd better dispatch it as such so

> everyone knows the water rescue truck needs to go, but we don't air the call

> as " water rescue respond to........... " unlike the area full time departments

> who will dispatch " engine 1, truck 1 respond......... "

>

> Kathy

[Guest guest]

I know of two different organizations that have a (county/parish) wide

numbering system for fire departments. If all of the (fire) organizations

(departments) could agree it would be really simple to do. Just start with

the first on line department and give them numbers starting with 100, then

the second would be 200 etc. all the way though 1500. The department would

be responsible for assigning the numbers to the equipment/personnel. Webster

Parish La. has all 11 different fire departments and their numbers are 1100,

so 1500 would not be so far fetched.

Mike Stockton, AAS - EMT-P

Firefighter/Paramedic/911 Dispatcher

Arklatxemt@...

[Guest guest]

i want to thank everyone who replied to my query. our committee will be

reviewing all of the information and hopefully we can establish a uniform

numbering system. thanks again

rich

[Guest guest]

i want to thank everyone who replied to my query. our committee will be

reviewing all of the information and hopefully we can establish a uniform

numbering system. thanks again

rich