Vermont Items
Basic Info About State Police Radio System and Vermont PD Radio Numbers
Funds Available For New VT Police Radios
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Basic Overview - Most police work in Vermont is done by the State Police and various city police departments. Smaller towns and villages are protected by local constables, local police departments, some County Sheriff units, and by the State Police. There are no regional PDs and no sharing of PDs among seperate towns or cities. Mutual aid is practiced among all police agencies. Fire protection is provided by fire departments in each city or town. (Perhaps 10 or 20 towns have no fire department - they are protected by nearby fire departments). Mutual aid is used by all FDs on either an automatic or call-when-needed basis. Ambulance service is provided by regional ambulance services. Typically, an ambulance service will cover 5 towns. Public Safety Dispatch is done either on a regional basis or locally or by the State Police.
Most police officers are fulltime employees (except for reserve municipal officers, weekend sheriffs officers, and town constables). Most fire and ambulance staff are part time/on call staff.
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VT Closing Comm Centers In Barracks - Jan 2002 June 1999 Status Report of the Vermont 911 Office
PSAP SOP from the Vermont 911 Office Website
New Vermont Radio Freqs - 1999
Vermont Police Radio Freqs - ?1999
VT Haz Mat Team Website - April 2000
Email lists - July 2000 - VermontFireCommand@onelist.com and VermontScanner@onelist.com [and Vermont-Fire-Ems-Alert (or something like that)-Jan 2002]
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The following link is the site where I currently have 68 VT and NH apparatus pictures online. I have taken them at parades and Open Houses over the past 3 or 4 years. When I get home from work tonight, I will add Peachem's Jeep (I got a pic of it at the State parade in St. J). I (hfr1@aol.com) currently have over 300 photos I will be periodically adding to the photopoint site. Here is the site: http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=1182019&a=8705919
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Lincoln VFD - new website - May 2000
www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Gorge/1102 - Johnson FD - 24Sept00
www.peacham.net/fire - Peacham Fd new URL - 09Oct00
Thetford FD has a website - Jan 2002 - 2 stations - E?2 is at Post Falls FS
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Twin State Fire Dispatch - see photo at www.littletonfirerescue.org (Littleton NH FD)
Jan 2002 - FCC listing shows 154.40 FB + 451.75 FX1 at W Newbury FS - same at 3 other locs - doesnt make sense on FX1
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Addison County
Jan 2002 - I posted list of info to Vermont Scanner list
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Bennington County
Pownal - May 2000 Info on Pownal FD
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Chittenden County
154.385 is the fire mutual aid radio channel.
Burlington - FD has ?5 stations - [uses a UHF 460Mhz repeater and one freq at 465Mhz apparently for FG - typically send 3 E + 1 Tower + 1 Chief to box alarms - Jan 2002]
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Franklin County
From VtFireCommand@egroups.com on ?08 Sept 00 - Slow response to another fire in Highgate has left a family there also without a home... The fire was called in to central dispatch at around 3:30 Thursday afternoon, but for an unknown reason, the town of SWANTON fire department was toned out to respond. The chief of the HIGHGATE fire department happened to hear the call, so his department also responded a couple of minutes later. The chief says he does not know why his department was not toned out first. The fire appeared to start in the kitchen -- it's cause is under investigation.
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Grand Isle County
Grand Isle County Public Safety Info
Sept 2000 - no 800Mhz freqs licensed on FCC website as of yet
Jan 2002 - have a ?3 freq TRS at 800Mhz? now - also use Clinton Co NY channels on their TRS
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Lamoille County
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Orange County
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Rutland County
Nearly all fire, police, and ambulance units in Rutland County are dispatched from the State Police Station in Rutland. Fire dispatch is on 154.25 - EMS Dispatch is on 155.28. The City of Rutland maintains their own dispatch center.
Rutland FD Considers Covering Outside Area - April 2000
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Washington County
Mad River Ambulance - 10/00pend - Waitsfield - 153.02R - 159.51M
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Windham County
Many FDs in Windham County are dispatched on 154.43 by the SW NH Dispatch Center that is located in Keene NH
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Windsor County
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April 2000 radio info from the VermontScanner@onelist.com list
Grand Isle County Sheriff's - now using the 460.025 VSP St. Albans repeater, and also have 453.875 MHz. as a 'local' channel. Not in use very much. Also, they don't yet have 800 MHz radios, but I believe they will once the system is up and running.
Franklin County Sheriff's - dispatched by VSP on 460.025; use 453.250 for in-department comms (I heard that they are trying to find a way to go to their own dispatcher)
St. Albans PD - 460.050 is Channel 1, 460.150 is RED-5 (voice scrambled)
Swanton PD - dispatched by VSP St. Albans on 460.025, also have the capability of 460.050 to chat with St. Albans City, use 155.700 as a squirrel channel, and actually dispatch during business hours on 460.500! BTW - 155.940 is the Swanton Fire, Public Works and Power Company channel; they do have it in their VHF radios.
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Twin State Fire Dispatch - see photo on Littleton NH FD website
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4Oct00 - from www.census.gov/govs/www/gid.html - Fire Protection Districts in Vermont
NAME - COUNTY EAST MIDDLEBURY FIRE DISTRICT ADDISON BENNINGTON RURAL FIRE DIST NO 1 BENNINGTON EAST DORSET FIRE DISTRICT 1 BENNINGTON DORSET FIRE DISTRICT #1 BENNINGTON BARNET FIRE DIST 2 CALEDONIA MCINDOE FIRE DISTRICT #3 CALEDONIA NORTH HYDE PARK FIRE DISTRICT LAMOILLE HYDE PARK FIRE DISTRICT 1 LAMOILLE CHELSEA FIRE DIST 1 ORANGE RANDOLPH FIRE DIST 2 ORANGE WILLIAMSTOWN FIRE DISTRICT #1 ORANGE WASHINGTON FIRE DISTRICT 1 ORANGE EAST WALLINGFORD FIRE DISTRICT 2 RUTLAND RUTLAND FIRE DISTRICT #1 RUTLAND BERLIN FIRE VOLUNTEER DEPT. #1 WASHINGTON SOUTH BARRE FIRE DISTRICT #2 WASHINGTON CAVENDISH FIRE DISTRICT 2 WINDSOR WEST BARNET FIRE DISTRICT CALEDONIA WESTMINSTER FIRE DISTRICT #3 WINDHAM CAVENDISH FIRE DISTRICT #1 WINDSORFire Protection and Water Districts
NAME - COUNTY RYEGATE FIRE DISTRICT #2 CALEDONIA BRANDON FIRE DIST 1 RUTLAND DANBY MOUNT TABOR FIRE DIST 1 RUTLAND WEST RUTLAND FIRE DISTRICT #1 RUTLAND GRANITEVILLE FIRE DISTRICT 4 WASHINGTON WEBSTERVILLE FIRE DISTRICT #3 WASHINGTON TROW HILL FIRE DIST NO 5 WASHINGTON NORWICH FIRE DISTRICT #1 WINDSOR ROYALTON FIRE DISTRICT #1 WINDSOR
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Updated - 5May00 - added Lincoln VFD + VT Fire + intro blurb - 29May00 - HazMat - 12July00 - Pownal info - changed URL of this page to VT.html from vermont.html - 28July00 - Rutland Co - email lists - added mutual aid info to opening blurb - 25Sept00 - Twin Mtn + hfr1 photopoint site - 4Oct00 - list of FPDs - 10Oct00 - Highgate incident - 25Oct00 - FD websites + Twin State Dispatch photo - Jan 2002 - added a couple of tidbits - see www.capitolimpact for lists of towns per county
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