CALIFORNIA PUBLIC SAFETY
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Statewide Items
3 Letter Codes for CA FDs - 2001 from OES Field Guide
New Radio Frequencies in 2000 in California
Fire Protection Districts in CA - October 2000 list from US Census Bureau GID
California Fire Dispatch Centers - Listed By County
CDF - State Forestry and Fire Department - May 2000 - has links to Butte CDF + SLO CDF + NYP CDF + Riverside CDF + Tuolumne CDF - CDF is a combined structural/wildland firefighting force that has contracts to provide administration, training, and dispatch of some rural FDs
Southern Calif Braces for Fierce Fire Season - 20 April 1999
Monterey CHP Comm Center - 1999 Photos
California Highway Patrol Radio Words
Photo Album by R Sanford with REACH Helo, a Marin County fire, and CHP cars - 1999
1999 List of EMS Providers in North California - Butte County to Trinity County
Public Safety Helos in CA Website
For medical helos in the USA, please see www.alecbuck.com
Northern CA APCO (Assoc Pub Safety Comms Officers - has pdf coordinators logs Jan00 thru May00 as of May00
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Scanner Sites for California
Note - Also look under specific counties
Website with Multi CA Scanner Websites - 5/99 last updated
Try this site also - http://cascanning.tripod.com
There is another great Scanner/Info site called Central + Northern State Scanning - here
Harry Marnell's great site with info for Humboldt, Trinity, and Del Norte Counties
Robert Sanford's Website - Marin Co + Disaster Info
Bay Area Scanner Club Website (May00)
For the Los Angeles area, please see www.latraffic.org and www.ke6alv.com and www.tstonramp.com/~salamone/scanner.htm
I have more sites to add - there are good sites for ?Solano County, Kern County, ?Monterey County - ?Summer 1999 there was a website that seemmed to gave all of the slightly old (?1992) info from Mobile Radio Resource (it was broken down by county)
12Sept00 - check the archives + files at www.egroups.com for scannorcal, socalscan, bayscan + sacramentoscan for extensive info on radio systems in California
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Live Public Safety Radio via the Internet
Please see www.apbonline.com for Los Angeles City PD, San Francisco PD, San Jose PD, and Oakland PD. Please see www.incidentpage.com for Los Angeles area FDs as of 27Sept00. Yahoo also has LA PD. Please see www.policescanner.com for Los Angeles PD (this may be the same as Yahoo).
October 2000 - Verdugo is planning on adding live radio audio to their website
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Local Items - By County
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Alameda County
Alameda County FD Website - last updated Sept 99 - 16 stations - mergers of several FDs listed - cover unincorporated areas + City of San Leandro + City of Dublin - ?mostly paid firefighters - Station 14 (Sunol) is owned and manned by CDF
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Amador County
Amador County Public Safety Info
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Butte County
there is a link from the CDF homepage to Butte CDF - May 2000
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Fresno County
Fresno County Radio Info + Station Info + Unit Info - Possibly From 1997
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Glenn County
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Inyo County
I believe that Mammoth Lakes FD and ?Juno Lakes FDs have websites at www.fire-ems.net
Oct 00 - I have a list of all the FPDs from www.census.gov
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Los Angeles County
Los Angeles County Public Safety
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Marin County
Robert Sanford's Webpage (May00)
see the archives of either [email protected] or [email protected] for details of the 400Mhz TRS coming online in 2000
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Mendocino County
Mendocino County Public Safety Info
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Merced County
Merced County FD Website - last updated March 1999 - approx 23 fire stations - 1 Captain or Fire Apparatus Operator is at each station 24/7 - 325 paid on call
Merced County FD Going Broke - October 13, 1999
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Mono County - county comm center dispatchs most public safety units in Mono County - Oct 00 - I have a list of all the FPDs somewhere - let me find it (from www.census.gov)
Mono County - list of FPDs - added 07Nov00
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Monterey County
Photos of Monterey CHP Comm Center - 1999
I have a big list of Monterey County freqs somewhere
Monterey County Public Safety information
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Nevada County
there is a link from the CDF webpage to Nevada-Yuba-Placer CDF - May 2000
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Orange County
Orange County Public Safety Information
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Placer County
Placer County Public Safety Info
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Riverside County
there is a link from the CDF website to Riverside County CDF
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Sacramento County
Sacramento Area Scanner Website - 1999
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San Bernardino County
Inland Empire Scanner Page - San Bern Co + Riverside County
List of San Bern County Fire Dept and Fire Station Numbers
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San Diego County
San Diego County Public Safety Info
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San Francisco County
October 1999 Article About Updated San Francisco Earthquake Risk
San Fran Trunked Radio System - 1999
San Fran Fire Union Website (added May 00)
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San Luis Obispo County
SLO County FD info - I listed Co stations + FD freqs - ?Templeton FPD + Santa Margarita VFD + Creston FS still exist? - 25Nov00
Radio Freq List - SLO + Santa Barb Co
CDF SLO Website - website being upgraded Sept 2000 - station list is missing now (cdfslostations2000.html) - 25Nov00 - station list is there plus a map of station locations
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San Mateo County
San Mateo County Fire Radio System - April 1999 - Detailed Info
San Mateo County - with great CAD/live audio link to Fire Dispatch
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Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara County Public Safety Forces
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Santa Clara County
Santa Clara County Public Safety Info
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Shasta County
October 16, 1999 Wildfire Destroys 100 Homes - 1 Firefighter Dies - also see the NIOSH site for a report on this LODD
Jake's Scanner Site has extensive info on Shasta County
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Siskiyou County
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Solano County
Public Safety Info for Solano County
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Sonoma County
Sonoma County Scanning Site - or here or here-April2000
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Sutter County
Sutter County FD - Station 5 - Live Oak - Website
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Tehama County
CDF Down staffing Reply�to: [email protected] CDF is planning for TGU and possibly surrounding units to downstaff on Oct 15th, 2000. This will put one engine on duty and one engine on reserve at each station. Stations with only one engine depending on weather and situation will remain staffed or closed for the off-season. Rain due early next week for the first rain of the "almost off season" CDF TGU plans to close the season on Nov 2nd. RBFD is looking forward because they lose a lot to CDF seasonals ;)
Sigh - it was a VERY quiet season this year for the north state. (Although I shouldn't say WAS - we still have a bit to go) but with the rain in forecast it should be quiet. TGU's questionable control burn "escape" is still under investigation. That proved very fun to listen to the first 3-5 hours of the initial attack and then turned into an airshow with leadplane activity and no groundstompers for a while.
See Jakes Scanner site for extensive info on the Tehama County FD
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Tulare County
County SO 911 Info - look at "Who Answers 911"?
there is a link from the CDF webpage to Tulare CDF - May 2000
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Ventura County
Ventura County Public Safety Forces
April 2000 - County EMS website lists the 3 A services, 8 hospitals, 2 helos services, + 1 disaster unit in the county (with photos) - link is at www.emsa.ca.gov
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Yolo County
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Freqs and Dispatch in Yolo County - also here
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Federal Items
Wildfire Photos - 1999 - Rigs and Equipment
Forest Fire Photos - 1999 - On The Shasta Trinity National Forest
Yosemite National Park Public Safety Operations
1998 List Of National Forest Radio Frequencies In California
1998 List Of NPS + BLM Radio Frequencies
Radio Frequencies and Fire Equipment Lineup for Angeles Natl Forest
1997 Engine Lineup for San Bernardino National Forest
Los Padres National Forest - April 1999 Engine Lineup
1999 - Plumas National Forest Fire Vehicles - Engine + Water Tender + Crew Carrier + Rear of Engine
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Updated - 8 April 2000 - added scanner sites and some EMS lists for various counties - 18May00 - updated URL Jake Hickok site - norcalems list - Plumas NF photos of rigs - 19May00 - Robt Sanford to Marin Co - San Fran FD Union - 8July00 - Solano Co - 15Aug00 - Shasta Co - 20Aug00 - new 2000 freqs - 27Aug00 - Mono Co slot - 10Sept00 - Alameda Co FD site + Merced Co FD site + SLO Co FD site - 12Sept00 - couple So Cal scanner sites - 26Sept00 - changed LPNF URL - Internet Radios - 10Oct00 - OrCo URL changed - 14Oct00 - San Bern NF - 25Oct00 - CHP Montery CC Photos - 25Oct00 - http://cascanning.tripod.com - 05Nov00 - list of FPDs - 07Nov00 - Mono Co FPDs - 25Nov00 - SLO Co - 06Dec00 - Monterey Co file - 14Dec00 - Mendocino County - 25Dec00 - Siskiyou Co - 12Feb01 - OES radios - 01June2001 - Kings Sequoia NP - 17Apr2003 - 3 letter codes for FDs from 2001
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