Police Service - per www.capitolimpact.com - apparently every town in Hampshire County has its own police department - I would bet that some of the smaller ones have only 1 cop - and he probably only works weekdays - at other times, the State Police will respond to calls in the smaller towns
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Fire Services
see www.masshome.com - also see State Police Comm guy webpage for dispatch info
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This article will give you a little peek at the use of mutual aid in Western Massachusetts.
Family left homeless after Granby fire - Wednesday, November 1, 2000 - By NATALIA E. ARBULU
GRANBY ����� An Aldrich Street family is homeless after an early morning fire destroyed part of their house. Firefighters responded to the call yesterday at 1:22 a.m. and spent 35 minutes extinguishing the fire at 68 Aldrich Street.
The fire, which began in the cellar, consumed bedrooms on the house's first and second floors, fire Chief Denis Houle said. No injuries were reported. Homeowners Michael P. and Robyn R. Sheridan, and their daughters Kelly, 12, and Kate, 10, were asleep in their bedrooms when the fire began, Houle said. Kate, whose first-floor bedroom is located above the cellar, heard the cellar's smoke detector go off and alerted her father, Houle said.
"If it was not for the keen ears of the 10-year-old (Kate), we could've had a fatality," Houle said.
The family's two-story Dutch colonial house received severe smoke and fire damage. Twenty-two Granby firefighters and 10 from South Hadley Fire District 2 were at the scene.
"When we got there, there were flames showing from the bedroom window, and we called for mutual aid from South Hadley," Houle said.
Frank E. Hart, a state trooper assigned to the state fire marshal's office, said the fire is not suspicious. Although its cause is still under investigation, the fire appears to have been caused by an electrical problem, officials said. The structure of the house was destroyed in some areas, and Houle estimated the damage at $60,000.
A team from Action Fire Restoration, a company based in Chicopee, was preparing to begin packing and cleaning the house yesterday afternoon. Nancy J. LaFrancis, an administrative assistant with the company, said the family could not occupy the house for another six to eight weeks. "They are staying with family in South Hadley and trying to cope," she said. "This is a horrendous thing to go through," The Granby Fire Department recently completed its fire safety awareness programs within the school district.
"Who would have thought they would have had to use that information that quickly," said East Meadow School Principal James J. Pietras, where both girls are students.
Fourth-grader Kate attended school yesterday, while sixth-grader Kelly chose to help her family, Pietras said.
Houle plans to nominate Kate for the state's Student Awareness of Fire Education award. "She saved her family's life," he said.
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Amherst FD - see 18 July 2001 sme2 and fireradio for info - dispatched on 154.37 by 739 (Amherst Dispatch)
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Belchertown FD - see 18 July 2001 sme2 and fireradio for info - dispatched on 154.37 by Amherst Dispatch
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Hatfield - dispatched by Northampton Control on 154.37 - 15 E 1 and 15 A 1
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Northampton
Heard via 483.3125R/154.22 in Boston area on 11Sept00 - weekly mobile radio test for Northampton FD - 0805AM - "Fire Alarm" is the dispatcher - test with the duty officer (X9) and Station 2 - "evacuation tone test and weekly mobile radio test will follow in 2 minutes" - warble - dispatcher calls all units in order - "Engine 1" - "Engine 1 portable" - E2 - E2p - E3 - E3p - E5 - E5p - "Ladder 2" - "Ladder 2 portable" - "Car 3" - "Car 3 portable" - Car 4 - Car 4p - "Tanker 1" - T1p - "Brush 1" (no portable) - no honks or beeps from the repeater or field units or dispatcher
Daily FD radio test - ?0805 - dispatcher reads off freq and input freq - 159.255 should be the input freq - the 154.22 freq was repeaterized in ?2000
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Ambulance Service - ?private ambulance + ?Hospital paramedics
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File created - 12Sept00 - Updated - 05Nov00 - Granby fire