8 March 2000 - Herrick VFD Chief Dies in Fall Thru Roof at House Fire
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Statewide Info
Fire Protection Districts - A thru M from www.census.gov - Dec 00
See the State website which probably has links to the State Fire Marshalls Office, the State Police, and the State Office of Emergency Medical Services
Police protection is provided by the State Police on state and interstate highways, county sheriff units in unincorporated areas, village and city police in cities and villages. Townships do not have police departments but some of them do have highway depts and fire depts.
Fire protection is provided by City, Village, and Township FDs and FPDs. (FDs are part of a local government (such as a city or village) - FPDs are independant local govt agencies.). There are no County FDs and very few "joint" or regional FDs. State Forestry and USFS provides wildfire protection when required in the southern part of IL.
Ambulance service is provided by local or county EMS. Helicopter ambulances fly from hospitals in the major cities. IL DOT operates 4 BLS helos.
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Scanner Info
CARMA - Chicago Area Radio Monitoring Assoc - lots of radio freqs
Chicago Area Trunked Radio Systems - new 11/99 Website
The Quad Cities Scanner and Rig Page
Scanner Email Lists - [email protected] and [email protected] and [email protected] and [email protected] (03Dec00)
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Online Scanners
www.apbonline.com - Chicago PD
Chicago FD - online Oct 2000 - ?www.live365.com - may be going off line Oct 00 - www.firenetchicago.net has the feed now (Nov00)
http://illinois.javaradio.com/live.cgi - a tuneable receiver in Illinois - Oct00
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Chicago Area Info
MABAS FDs - new 01Aug00 - lists all FDs, dispatch freqs, dispatched by, ID ranges - by Rich Carlson and friends
MABAS FDs by Peter Laws et al - new Aug00 - broken down by dispatch freqs
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Champaign County
You can check http://illinois.javaradio.com to get a list of freqs which is fairly complete, and you can operate an Icom PCR-1000 radio right in Champaign-Urbana from your computer to hear these freqs. (03Dec00)
Info on Champaign County Public Safety
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Cook County
MABAS Division 3 - Northern Suburbs
MABAS Division 10 - Central Cook County and DuPage County
MABAS Division 19 Website - Orland Area
Northwest Central Dispatch - around 30Nov00 CARMA had list of agencies
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Dupage County
Du Page County Comm Center or try www.geocities.com/ducomm
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Moline County
Quad Cities Area Scanner Website by Mike Scheel
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?Peoria County
I also have a good site with lots of Peoria old fire rigs photos in my favorites under "fire".
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Will County
see MABAS 19 in Cook County
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Info About the MERCI Radio Network
From [email protected] on 9 July 2000Ted got the Chicago part right but this is how the State made the MERCI System out for the rest of the State. Straight from the MERCI Manual Circa 1970: 155.1600 - MERCI 160 � Primary channel within the 40 mile radius of the St. Louis Arch. Also Primary BLS hospital to aircraft channel. 155.2200 - MERCI 220 � Areawide central dispatch voice only for EMS vehicles. Not available in the Chicago Metro area. 155.2800 - MERCI 280 � Point to point land base station use only for hospital to hospital administration and disaster relief. Illinois hospital association holds primary statewide licensing. Digital dial encoding and decoding allowed on this channel only. 155.3400 - MERCI 340 � Inter and intra state itinerant channel. All hospitals and EMS vehicles should have and operating 155.3400 MHz channel. Primary BLS hospital to ambulance channel for the State of Illinois except for Lake, McHenry counties and Kane and Cook Counties south of North Avenue. 155.4000 - MERCI 400 � Limited to Illinois Base stations designated by the Department and located within an area including Evanston, Elgin from North Avenue to Wisconsin. This shall be the primary BLS channel. 155.4600 - MERCI 460 Split - Limited to contacts from ISP with a cross channel arrangement with EMS vehicles transmitting on 155.3400 MHz.
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Last Update - 03Aug00 - Chic Area/2 MABAS overview sites - 24Oct00 - online scanners - 02Dec00 - scanner lists - 03Dec00 - FPDs + general info + Chic FD scanner + online tuneable scanner in Champaign Co - 10Dec00 - corrected HTML Laws site (added /a)