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Countywide Items or Multitown Items
Online FDs in Worcester County
Petersham Firefighter's Page with Fire Photos (May00)
Central Radio System - News Buffs (May00)
I should find the regional EMS council website if there is one - June 2001
See the massfire list at www.yahoogroups.com for public safety items from the 2001 Town Meetings
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Misc Items
Fitchburg Police Radio Codes - 1999
Mass State Police Troop C New Radio System - Summer 1999
there is a website with the Worcester City 800T info - see Mr Caldwells site for a link - apparently this info was removed in October 1999 - very interesting!
Athol Firefighter with Fire Photos (May00)
see www.masshome.com for lists of online PDs and FDs in MA
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Worcester County is divided into cities and towns. There are no unincorporated areas in Worcester County. Each town and each city operates its own polce department and fire department. Ambulance service is supplied by municipal units, volunteer units, and private ambulances under city contracts. Paramedics are available in the larger cities and towns - and they will respond to assist basic ambulances in nearby areas.
Police departments mostly use fulltime staff. Some parttime police officers do serve in smaller towns. The State Police may serve as the primary police units in some of the smallest towns at night. Fire departments are either fully career (Worcester + Leominster + Gardner + Fitchburg + ?Clinton), or fully "on-call/volunteer", or combination (in station staff backed up by on-call staff (either career or call)). Ambulance staff may be fulltime or on-call.
Most cities and towns in Worcester County operate their own 911 Communications Center. One dispatcher may be on duty to handle all of the police, fire, and EMS activity. All "on-call" firefighters and ambulance staff carry pagers. 2 Fire Mutual Aid Centers exist - Fitchburg for the North side of the County; ?Charlton/?Southbridge for the South side. 33.70 is the North fire mutual aid channel - 33.62 is used on the south side. Police mutual aid freqs are 158.97, 45.54, 45.34, 45.58.
Worcester CMED coordinates patches from ambos on 463 Mhz to hospitals. They also dispatch Worcester City EMS units and the ?Worcester Lifeflite helo.
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Towns and Cities - April 2000
Ashburnham - PD are on 39.34R - FD is on 33.82 - FD has 2 stations (Central and South) - Ambulance is operated by FD
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Athol
Jan 2001 - The Athol FD dispatches itself. The PD want to stay out of that end. It was brought up at a Town Meeting and was talked down by the Chief of Fire. As far as I know 33.48 is the main fire channel. The 33.92 is used as an extra channel such as fire inspections.
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Auburn - FD has 2 stations (Central and West) - FD uses 154.385
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Barre
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Berlin
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Blackstone
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Bolton - FD is now online (Oct00) -
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Boylston
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Brookfield
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Charlton
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Clinton - 154.31 is FD - FD has FT staff
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Douglas
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Dudley
28 Oct 00 from sme2 - The Annual Town Meeting in Dudley is coming up on Monday. The Dudley Police want a new $60,000 radio system to replace the existing 155.430 Simplex system. The Dispatch Consule, etc. and about 8 to 10 Portables and Mobiles will be replaced. Most likely they are "going repeater" What would be the easiest way to describe a repeater system to people in general (basically the types who think everything is on "CB".)
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East Brookfield
FD - ?all vol
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Fitchburg - both PD and FD are fully paid - FD uses 154.25 - PD uses 453.425R - ambulance service is provided by Patriot Ambulance under contract to the city (they use 154.25) - Patriot Paramedic 10 provides service to several towns (Ashby + Lunenburg + Westminster) and is dispatched on 154.25
23Oct00 - radio test - 0805 - 154.25 - portables - .........Ldr 102 - Eng 103 - Eng 203 - Eng 303 - Eng 403
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Gardner - FD uses 154.13 - FD has ?2 stations (3rd FS was closed in ?1990)
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Grafton - FD has 3 stations - ?1 FT person - see www.geocities.com/graftonfd/ (3/00 last updated) - has lists of rigs and firefighters
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Hardwick - FD - ?all vol
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Harvard - PD and Ambulance use 159.09R - FD uses 33.70 and has 2 stations (Central + Still River)
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Holden
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Hopedale
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Hubbardston
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Lancaster - FD has 2 stations (Central and South)
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Leicester - FD has 3 stations - ?1 FT person
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Leominster - both PD and FD are fully paid - FD uses 460.55R - FS1 Central / FS2 North / FS3 South - Ambulance (BLS) is operated by FD - parameidics are provided by Patriot Ambulance Service
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Lunenburg - FD has 1 station - Town CommCenter dispatches Fire/EMS on 155.76 - E2 is a 89 GMC/EOne 250/250 mini (Oct00) - ?all vol FD
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Mendon
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Milford - FD is ?fully paid
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Millville
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New Braintree - ?all vol FD
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North Brookfield - ?all vol FD
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Northboro - FD has some ?FT staff
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Northbridge - FD has some ?FT staff
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Oakham - ?all vol FD
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Paxton
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Petersham
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Phillipston
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Princeton - 2 fire stations - Central + East - Ambulance is operated by FD - 33.88 is FD channel - 151.295R is PD channel
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Royalston - ?all vol FD
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Rutland
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Shrewsbury - FD is fully paid and uses 154.235
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Southbridge
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Spencer
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Sterling
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Sturbridge
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Sutton
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Templeton - 4 fire stations - all call FD - 155.94 for PD + FD + Ambulance
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Uxbridge
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Warren - FD has 3 FT FF/EMT (1 of them is the Chief) and 34 call FFs (June 2001)
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Webster
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Westborough
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West Boylston
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West Brookfield
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Westminster - Town Comm Center dispatches PD + FD/EMS
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Worcester
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Updated - 16June00 - 28July00 - page redone and renamed - 11Oct00 - more work done - 24Oct00 - moved City of Worcester info to Worcester City file - Fitchburg HT IDs - 29Oct00 - Dudley - 02Nov00 - Grafton FD website - June 2001 - Athol FD dispatch info + Warren FD info