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My List of Online FDs in Berkshire County
www.masshome.com and www.fire-ems.net have lots of Berkshire County FDs online
Personal Website with New Marlboro Twp VFC Inc Bylaws May 2000
New lists at www.yahoogroups.com as of 28 May 2001 - berkshirecountyfireequipment - berkshirecountyemergencymanagement - newenglandfireems - wmasswildlandfirefighters - wmassems - wmassfireground - wmasshazmat
See firepics list ~28May2001 - Sheffield + Egremont (no Jaws) + New Marlborough + Monterey rigs
Dispatch Info from South County Area
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April 1999 List of Ambulance Services in Berkshire County from the West MA EMS site
Ambulance Services in Berkshire County
Adams Ambulance 47 Park Street Adams MA 01220 Intermediate Level
AMR Ambulance 77 Seymour Street Pittsfield MA 01201 Paramedic Level
Becket Ambulance Route 8 Becket MA 01223 Basic Level
County Ambulance 175 Wahconah Street Pittsfield MA 01201 Paramedic Level
Dalton Fire/Ambulance 20 Flansburg Avenue Dalton MA 01226 Basic Level
Hinsdale Ambulance Squad Maple Street Hinsdale MA 01235 Basic Level
Lanesborough Fire Dept South Main Street Lanesborough MA 01237 Intermediate Level
Lee Ambulance Railroad Street Lee MA 01238 Intermediate Level
Lenox Ambulance Squad 6 Walker Street Lenox MA 01240 Intermediate Level
New Marlborough Rescue Southfield-Norfolk Road Southfield MA 01259 Basic Level
North Adams Ambulance Service 10 Harris Street North Adams MA 01247 Paramedic Level
Otis Ambulance Service 15 South Main Street Otis MA 01253 Basic Level
Richmond Fire/Ambulance State Road Richmond MA 01254 Basic Level
Sandisfield Fire/Ambulance Route 8 Sandisfield MA 01255 Basic Level
Southern Berkshire Vol. Amb 29 Lewis Avenue Great Barrington MA 01230 Intermediate Level
Village Ambulance Service 30 Water Street Williamstown MA 01267 Paramedic Level
Windsor Fire/Ambulance Dept Route 9 Windsor MA 01270 Basic Level
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Date: Fri, Apr 13, 2001, 12:32am To: [email protected] Subject: Fwd: [ScanWesternMass] State Police Coverage in WMass/Central Mass Reply�to: [email protected]
I have heard that there are some new troopers out here. A 15 minute response would be excellent, but I have hear them report that it would take them up to 45 minutes to arrive to calls. You add in all the traveling these folks do who pull the details on top of their regular schedule. You've got some tired pups out there. I haven't looked at MSP lately, but the starting pay for a VT State Trooper was less than what I am making as a Campus Security Officer. For a while there, my father (the New Marlborough Chief I mentioned in my last message) was making less than the guy who mows the graveyards.
I like what CT has done with their resident trooper program. They take someone, & say here's an office, car, & apartment/house to live in. "Be here when we need you" -- community policing at its best. This added to the regular patrol units seem to be a big help. A good number of the towns in the NW corner of CT have no police force.
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Great post, thanks......
Basically I think last year there was some negative press coverage that most of the state PD staffing had been allocated to the eastern part of the state with Central & Western MAss areas severly affected... If I remembef correctly there were safety concerns because of the more than 15 minute response times that could occur both in Central & Western MA.......... However, I think that there's been quite a few new state cops assigned to the Central & Western MA areas from the last two classes BUT I think a fair number of them commute from the eastern part of MA which IMHO adds to the safety problem because you've got a guy or gal that might be commuting 200+ miles each day......... At one time I used to commute from Springfield to Lexington, MA each day & I can tell you from personal experience that it was one of the worst things that I had to do 5 days a week and on occassion
��6 days a week -- I lived for my days off - and my job was in an office setting!!! Now think about it -- a trooper is in the car on an 8 to sometime 12 hour shift and then has to commute another 1.5 hrs one way (3 hrs round trip)!!!!!???
Maybe I wrong & the State PD now require troopers to live closer to their assigned station, but I don't think so!!!
At 09:16 AM 4/12/01 EDT, xxx wrote:
Last I knew the MSP barracks (B-1) out of Lee only had 2 or 3 cars on the road at any one time, same for the Cheshire Barracks (B-4), having to cover & from the NY line to the eastern
border of the county.
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http://community.webtv.net/CBJ204/BOBSSCANNERPAGE WESTERN MASS SCANNING FREQS.
http://www.javanet.com/~kberrien
MASSACHUSETTS FREQUENCIES
http://www.fordyce.org/scanning/frequencies/Massachusetts/index.html
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Updated - 15May00 - New Marlboro Bylaws - 30May2001 - police info + new lists + S Co Dispatch Info + Pittsfield Info