Essex County Public Safety
by Peter Szerlag - April 2000
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Amesbury
City Website - click "Services" for FD
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Andover
FD - 1999 profile at www.geocities.com/morney55
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Beverly - 15 square miles - 38,000 pop
FD - 3 sta - 482.4375 PL131.8 - ISO3 - fully paid
FD webpage at www.fire-ems.net - July 99 info
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Danvers - 13 square miles - 24,000 pop
FD - ISO3 - 2 stations - fully paid
FD on aol.com - 1995 + 1996 statistics
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Essex - 4,000 pop
FD - 155.82 - 768.6363 - 1 station
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Georgetown
FD - 2 fire companies - both dispatched by the police via 154.01 Mhz
Erie Four Fire Company website - has photos of Combo 4 (?90 IH SCC midi) + Eng 4 (?80 Ford FCC) + handtub - oldest privately owned fire company in the uSA - 10% of funds come from the Town of Georgetown (rest from fundraising)
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Gloucester -
FD - has info on city website - photos of stations, box numbers under Major Disaster Contingency Plan, good historical info with photos, photo of hand tub on links page, etc etc
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Groveland - 5,000 pop - 9 square miles
FD - 2 stations - dispatched by PD on 154.01
FD at fire-ems.net with 1/99 info
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Hamilton - 15 square miles - 8,000 pop - rich town
FD - FT + vols - 1 station - ISO5 - dispatched by PD on 155.94
FD at www.fire-ems.net - May 1997 info
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Haverhill
FD - see July 2000 profile at www.geocities.com/morney55
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Ipswich
FD - see Sept 2000 profile at www.geocities.com/morney55
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Lawrence
City Website - as of Aug00, only FD info is phone #s
FD - see 1999 profile at www.geocities.com/morney55
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Lynn
FD - please see www.geocities.com/45hithel
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Lynnfield - FD is moving to 482.70R from 46.06 during 2000 - see www.geocities.com/morney55 for John Galla's Nov 2000 color photo profile
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Manchester
Town Website - as of Aug00, no specific FD info - does have 2K Town Meeting info, + 1999 Annual Town Report in PDF form
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Marblehead
FD has 2 FT stations - L1 is a quint - E1 E2 L1 are active - E2 is at substation - ops on 154.37R - 911 Center formed by merger of Fire Dispatch and Police Dispatch in ?1998
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Merrimac
www.merrimacfire.com - has photos of rigs
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Methuen
FD - see 1999 profile at www.geocities.com/morney55
FD Website with Feb00 info - has lots of photos and info - has 5 photos of the huge 1995 Malden Mills Fire
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Middleton - 7,000 pop - 14 square miles
FD - 1 station - FT + ?vols - 30 firefighters (5 are paramedics)(paramedics are sometimes paged for EMS calls when off duty)
FD webpage at www.fire-ems.net with 1/99 info
Dispatch Center Problems - May 2000
Please see www.geocities.com/morney55 for John Galls's January 2000 photo profile of the Middleton FD
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Nahant
Town Website - as of Aug00, no FD info
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Newbury
FD - there are 2 fire departments in Newbury - the Newbury FD has 1 station in Newbury Center - the Byfield FD has 1 station in Byfield - Byfield dispatchs themselves (?from the chiefs house or the station perhaps) - they have a very slow time beeper on 154.145 which beeps out the telegraph boxes via radio - both FDs use 154.145 for their primary radio channel - Byfield box 5 is the Dummer Academy and gets a response of Byfield ?E1 ?E2 L1
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Newburyport
FD - 158.955
FD Website at www.newburyport-firedept.org - no rig photos yet - Aug00
FD - ?info at networx.com - ?gone Aug00
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North Andover
FD has 2 stations - FD has own dispatch center - 867.60R
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North Reading - not in Essex County - see Middlesex County
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Peabody
FD - for 1999 profile, please see www.geocities.com/morney55
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Rockport
didnt I see a photo of the Forest Fire Dept station on the pier?
FD has 2 stations - maybe 3 if there is also a Forest Fire Dept station - 155.145 - VFD - 1 station is at Pigeon Cove
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Rowley
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Salem - no city website as of Aug 00
FD - 4 or 5 FT FS - ?FD dispatch center merged into ?City 911 Center ?in 1998
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Salisbury
FD Website - not much info - new in 3/99
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Saugus
FD - please see www.geocities.com/45hithel
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Swampscott
www.swampscott.org - no FD info as of Aug00
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Topsfield - 6000 pop - 12 square miles
FD - 4FT weekdays + vols - ISO4 - amb by Lyons Amb of Danvers (ALS + BLS) - 154.10 + 151.46 - dispatched by PD
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Wenham - vol FD + PD are dispatched by the Hamilton 911 Center
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West Newbury - 14 square miles - 4,000 pop
FD - 2 stations - 154.01 - 363.1111 - ?all vol FD
FD webpage at www.fire-ems.net
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Also see www.masshome.com for PD + FD websites - and much more
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