RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC SAFETY - 1999
by Peter Szerlag - 27 May 1999
Table of Contents
1. General Info
2. 7 Digit Emergency Telephone Numbers for All Areas
3. FD Websites + ??
4. New Radio Freqs - 2000
5. Providence FD Info
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Section 1 - General Information
The May 1999 Providence telephone book has the following info inside the front cover - "Call 911 for all Emergencies". Then directly under this statement they list all the 7 digit emergency telephone numbers for all the area cities and towns. No explaination is given for the 7 digit numbers.
State Police - seperate phone numbers listed for each of the State Police Barracks/Stations. (They used to be called barracks when the state police slept in them about ?40 years ago.) The Blue Pages also lists the nonemergency phone number for each barrack / station.
5/99 Providence White Pages - inside front cover - under the 911 # - emergency numbers for RI State Police - Chepachet 444-1111 - Hope Valley 539-2323 - Lincoln Woods 728-2211 - Portsmouth 849-4444 - Wickford 294-3322
per Sept 1994 Westerly phone book front cover - Hope Valley Barracks Emerg # is 539-2323 for Westerly, Narragansett, and Block Island areas
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There is no unincorporated land in Rhode Island. All land areas are part of a city or towm. There are 5 counties but they only provide limited services. Police service is provided by the RI State Police (primarily on major highways and rural areas), city PDs, and town PDs. Fire service is provided by city, town, district, and volunteer FDs. There are no regional or County FDs. Ambulance service is provided by FDs or volunteer ambulance squads. Fulltime public safety staff are used in the cities and larger towns. Smaller towns in the rural areas will have volunteer/on-call firefighters and ambulance staff. (I do not think that there are any on-call police officers - except for detectives and technicians).
All 911 calls in the state are answered at a centralized primary answering point in ?Providence. Started ops in ?1995. Calltakers at the State 911 PSAP forward calls to local dispatchers. Most departments have their own dispatchers. There is very little shared dispatching between PD and FDs, or between various municipalities. Pagers are used to alert oncall firefighters and ambulance crews.
For a detailed list of radio freqs - see the Providence Citywide website. [or www.geocities.com/45peter/RIfreqs.html - is a copy of the Prov Citywide info]
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Section 2
POLICE, FIRE, AND AMBULANCE EMERGENCY TELEPHONE NUMBERS
Barrington
......247-1911 - Police + Fire
Bristol
......253-6611 - Fire
......253-6900 - ?Police
Burrilville
......568-2121 - Glendale Fire
......568-2121 - Harrisville Fire
......568-2121 - Nasonville Fire
......568-2121 - Oakland/Mapleville Fire
......568-2121 - Pascoag Fire?
......568-6255 - Police
Central Falls
......727-7444 - Fire
......727-7411 - Police
Charlestown
......364-7272 - Richmond Carolina Fire (also see Town of Richmond)
......364-1212 - Police (1994)(10/99?town website)
......596-2022 - Police - Dunn's Corner (1994)
Coventry
......821-3456 - Fire and Rescue
......826-1100 - Police
Cranston
......461-5000 - Fire and Rescue
......942-2211 - Police
Cumberland
......333-2600 - Fire
......333-2500 - Police
......334-0240 - TDD
East Greenwich
......884-4211 - Fire and Rescue
......884-2244 - Police
East Providence
......431-1111 - Fire + Rescue + Police
Exeter
........294-2323 - Fire (per phonebook 99)
........294-2233 - Fire and Rescue (per notebook)
........294-3371 - Police - East
........539-2323 - Police - West (Hope Valley SP)
........294-3322 - Police - (per Sept 1994 Westerly phone book)
Foster
........397-3334 - Fire and Police
........647-3334 - Fire and Police
........???????? - Moosup Valley Fire
........???????? - Foster Center Fire
........???????? - North Foster Fire
Gloucester
........568-2533 - Police
........568-8282 - Chepachet Fire
........949-0101 - Harmony Fire
........568-5511 - West Gloucester Fire
Hopkinton
........539-2211 - Hope Valley Fire
........377-4440 - Ashaway Fire
........??????? - Yawgoog Fire
........377-7750 - Police (per Sept 1994 Westerly phone book)
Jamestown
Johnston
...274-1111 - Fire and Rescue
Lincoln
...333-1111 - Fire and Police
Little Compton
Middletown
...846-1104/1105 - Police (10/99 per town website)
...847-3663/3651 - Fire (10/99 per town website)
Narragansett
...789-1011 - Fire and Police (matches PD # from 1994 Westerly phone bk cover)
Newport
...846-2211 - Fire (per 10/99 town website)
...847-1212 - Police (per 10/99 town website)
New Shoreham
...466-3220 - Fire and Police (Block Island)(matches front cover of Sept 1994 Westerly phone book)
North Kingston
...294-3344 - Fire and Rescue
...294-3311 - Police (per front cover of 1994 Westerly phone book)
North Providence
...231-8500 - Fire
...232-5840 - Fire TDD
...231-4533 - Police
North Smithfield
....911 - North Smithfield Fire
....911 - Primrose Fire
....762-1212 - Police
Pawtucket
...725-1420 - Fire
...726-7150 - Fire TDD
...726-3911 - Police
Portsmouth
...683-1155 - Fire (per 10/99 town website)
...683-0300 - Police (per 10/99 town website)
Providence
...274-3344 - Fire
...831-4327 - Fire TDD
...272-1111 - Police
...831-3456 - Police TDD
Prudence Island
...?part of Portsmouth - 683-1100 - ?Fire
Richmond
...539-2211 - Alton Fire
...364-7272 - Richmond Carolina Fire (also see the Town of Charlestown)
...539-8289 - Police (per front cover of Sept 1994 Westerly phone bk)
Scituate
...821-5900 - Fire + Police
Smithfield
...949-1233 - Fire and Rescue
...949-0812 - Fire TDD
...231-2500 - Police
...233-1022 - Police TDD
South Kingston
...783-2422 - Fire
...783-3341 - Police (per front cover of Sept 1994 Westerly phone book)
Tiverton
...625-6744 - Fire and Ambulance (625-6740 per Sept 1998 Fall River MA telo book)
...624-3222 - Police
Warren
...245-3411 - Fire
...245-1311 - Police
Warwick
...737-2244 - Police
...468-4200 - Police (5/99)
...468-4005 - Fire (5/99)
Westerly
...348-8111 - Misquamicut Fire District
...348-8933 - Watch Hill Fire District
...596-2711 - Westerly Fire District
...377-2722 - Bradford Fire
...322-0361 - Dunn's Corner Fire
...596-2022 - Police (per front cover of Sept 1994 Westerly phone book)
West Greenwich
...397-3388 - Fire and Rescue
...397-7191 - Police
West Warwick
...821-4211 - Fire
...821-4323 - Police
Woonsocket
.....769-1111 - Police
.....766-1234 - Fire
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No ambulance numbers listed (most FDs provide emergency public ambulance service - other areas are covered by local volunteer amb agencies)
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Section 3
Newport Naval FD - ?4 fire stations (Naval Hospital in Newport - 2 naval sites in Jamestown - 1 naval site in Narragansett - per 1996 ?Arrow Street Directory)
Air Natl Guard Station - Coventry
Air Natl Guard Base - Quonset
Greene International State Airport - ?Cranston
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Fire Departments Within Towns or Cities
Coventry
Tiogue Fire District - 240 Arnold Rd - Cov 828-4359 (per 5/99 Prov YP)
Scituate
Hope Jackson Fire Company - Main St - Scit 828-6460
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Websites
Hope Valley Wyoming FD Website - May 2000
Middletown - www.middletownri.com - 10/99 - has police and fire info - photos of all fire rigs
Tiverton - 10/99 - has Town Council Meeting minutes and 97/98 Town Budget
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Section 4
May 5, 2000 - Smithfield - FB4 - 154.115 - 158.895M - ?3/2kpend
also see www.geocities.com/45peter/RIfreqs.html for a list of radio freqs in RI taken from the Providence Citywide website
Also see the [email protected] list
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Section 5 - Providence FD
February 2001 - Question - How does Providence FD run its radio system these days? Is all dispatch and ops done on Channel 1 154.37R? Then if its a major fire, they are switched to other freqs? Answer - 154.370 is their dispatch channel. Any multi unit responses, like box alarms, still boxes, mva with multi units etc get assigned a channel, either 2 (151.220) or 3 (159.360). There is talk of setting up a new channel just for EMS, not sure if or when that might happen. Question - Does every onduty Providence firefighter have a portable radio these days? What sort of IDs do they use? Engine 1 A + B + C? Ladder 1 roof? etc? Answer - They use the A, B, C designations. A being officer, B driver, c and d jump seats.
Providence Citywide has a website with radio traffic and info from the Providence FD. I am sure that Prov FD has their own website also.
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Posted to sme2
As of February 18th. Providence Citywide will be operating on a new "MAIN" frequency. This frequency gives coverage for all of RI and SE MASS up to Brockton and Walpole. Here is the lineup of the frequencies.
Main - rx 463.950 Pl 167.9 (Incident only)
Tac 2 - rx 462.400 Pl 250.3 (Back-up Providence area)
Ops 1- rx 452.825 Pl 167.9 (Car to Car)
Tac 3 - rx 463.375 Pl 91.5 (Woonsocket Area) Rebroadcast incidents
Tac 1 - rx 461.425 Pl 79.7 (Ledyard CT Main Channel)
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Last Update - 10/15/99 - 5May00 - 28Nov00 (RIfreqs.html + [email protected]) - 15Feb01 - Citywide freqs + general pub safety info - 25Feb01 - Prov FD freq use
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