Cape Cod Public Safety Radio Guide
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Cape Cod Citywide Notification Group - with Public Safety Incident News Log
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Cape and Islands Emergency Medical Services Council
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Cape Cod FDs by Britton Crosby @ www.CapeCodFD.com
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17 Feb 2001 - www.capecod.net/~tcaldwell/antenna.htm or http://people.ne.mediaone.net/n1riw has FDs online via live365.com plus this info from 15Feb01 - CLICK HERE FOR THE CAPE COD FIRE DEPARTMENT'S LIVE SCANNER
� - BEFORE GOING TO LINK HERE IS SOME INFORMATION YOU MAY WANT TO PRINT THIS OUT TO AID IN IDING USERS ON THE SYSTEM- CAPE COD FIRE APPARATUS NUMBERS: 21-39 FALMOUTH FIRE 41-59 YARMOUTH FIRE * 61-79 HARWICH FIRE 80-99 WELLFLEET FIRE 101-120 DENNIS FIRE 121-149 BOURNE FIRE 151-169 EASTHAM FIRE 170-179 ORLEANS FIRE 180-189 CHATHAM FIRE 190-199 PROVINCETOWN FIRE 201-209 BARNSTABLE FIRE 231-249 BREWSTER FIRE 261-269 COTUIT FIRE 291-299 WEST BARNSTABLE FIRE * 301-329 CENTERVILLE/OSTERVILLE/MM FIRE 361-379 MASHPEE FIRE 391-399 CHATHAM FIRE 440-469 SANDWICH FIRE 471-499 TRURO FIRE * 590-599 PROVINCETOWN FIRE * 801-829 HYANNIS FIRE * �
NOTES: HYANNIS & WEST BARNSTABLE ARE NOT CURRENTLY USING SYSTEM. YARMOUTH DISPATCHES ON SYSTEM BUT USES TACTICALLY ONLY DURING MULTIPLE INCIDENTS. PROVINCETOWN AND TRURO OPERATE ON LOWER CAPE SMARTZONE AND ARE NOT GUARUNTEED TO BE ON THIS MAIN TRUNK BROADCAST
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Countywide Agencies
County Sheriff - provides county jail, county dispatch center, and specialized police services (major crime investigation). The County Comm Center provides mutual aid radio messages for all public safety agencies, and operates the Ambulance to Hospital radio network (and dispatches the Barnstable Fire District and the West Barnstable Fire District + ?Mashpee PD and FD and ?Harwich FD).
Cape Cod Ambulance Service - a private agency in Yarmouth with ?12 ambulances which primarily do nonemergency transports from hospitals to nursing homes. On 463Mhz
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US Coast Guard
Air Station Cape Cod - 4 Jayhawk helicopters + 4 HH25 Lear Jets
Motorboat Stations - Cape Cod Canal/Sandwich (has own website) + Provincetown + Chatham + Woods Hole + ?Buzzards Bay
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Barnstable County is comprised of ?15 towns. There are no Cities, and no unincorporated areas. Each town has its own fulltime police department and fulltime (or combination) fire/ems department. Most agencies also use parttime employees. Most police depts and fire depts operate their own dispatch centers. Some towns operate combined fire/police/ems dispatch centers (Provincetown, Truro, Eastham, Wellfleet, Orleans, Brewster, Mashpee, etc.) Most agencies have migrated to the State Police 800Mhz trunked radio system in 1999. Most towns have hydrants in most areas.
Possibly - all 911 calls for Mashpee and Harwich are initially answered by the County Comm Center who then forwards the call or info to the local dispatchers (I have no idea why they are doing this). Cellular 911 calls go to the Mass State Police HQ in Framingham. All other 911 calls go to the local PSAP (1 per town except for ?Mashpee and ?Harwich)
Topography - the western end of Barnstable County is hilly with elevations from sea level to ?400 feet. The eastern end of the county is sandy with dunes up to 100 feet. Scrub pine seems to be the predominant vegetation. It doesnt burn very often - but if it gets going, it can really take off.
Lin ks to Most Cape Cod FDs (for Yarmouth FD, see below - March 2000)(for Centerville FD see below)
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BARNSTABLE
2001 phone book - 775-1212 for police emergencies - 911 also
www.barnstablefire.org - Barnstable Fire Protection District for the Barnstable (Village) area in the Town of Barnstable
Centerville - Osterville - Marston Mills FD - May 2000 - new
Cotuit FD - August 2000 at www.fire-ems.net
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BREWSTER
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CHATHAM
per 2001 phone book - 508-945-1212 for police emergencies or 911
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DENNIS
per 2001 telephone book from Verizon - in white pages - 394-1313 for police business - 911 for police emergencies
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FALMOUTH
per 2001 telephone book - 508-548-1212 for police emergencies or 911
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HARWICH
per 2001 phone bk - 508-432-1212 for police emergencies - or 911
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MASHPEE
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ORLEANS
2001 phone book - 508-255-1213 - police - emergency calls only - plus 911
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SANDWICH
per 2001 phone bk - 888-1212 for police emrgencies - 911 also
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TRURO
Truro Police - with Mgmt Study
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WELLFLEET
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YARMOUTH
per 2001 phone bk - 771-1212 for police emergency calls only - 911 also
Yarmouth FD Website - Feb 2000
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Cape Cod National Seashore - operate 1 wildland pumper + 1 tanker + 1 brush truck - have EMT rangers
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Otis AFB FD on www.fire-ems.net
Otis FD Website with some photos - 403 = ?P19 (4 axle - ?8 wheel)
Camp Edwards Reserve Base - houses artillery range + Air Base (USCG + ANG) + Pave Paws Radar Site (?all 3 have FDs?)
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July 2000 - from [email protected] - On the cape we are using an 800 mhz trunked system, and most departments have set up both simulcast and cross patch systems to allow their 800 traffic to go out over low band, and vice versa. I also know that Cambridge has a 800 talkgroup set up for Metro Fire that is patched thru to the UHF. Are you sure that they haven't done this for the EMS set up also?
This system is quite effective, and until we switched all our radios over to 800 only, we used to operate without any problems. Low band portables could talk to 800 portable, and the other way around. These patches and simulcast systems are set up "behind the scenes" not as part of the console, therefore they do not experience any of the lag or delay problems.
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Doesn't Britton Crosby have a great FD website somewhere? - 1/10/2000 search on Infoseek turns up nothing - Oct00 - see above for his www.CapeCodFD.com website
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By Peter S - December 19, 1999
Updated - 10Jan2000 - Otis FD - March 2000 - Yarmouth - May00 - COMM FD - 28July00 - EMS Radio Info - 28Aug00 - Cotuit FD - 7Oct00 - Britton Crosby's site - 02Nov00 - Barnstable FPD + small changes - 17Feb01 - online scanner feed of FDs
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