Number Scheme

[Engine 101]

What is your favorite number for a Fire Truck, Mine are 101 and 51

Does that make sense now!

[This message has been edited by Engine 101 (edited 01-07-2001).]

[BucksEng91]

Ummm...what are you talking about? The numbering scheme for your county / whatever, or just a favorite number, like wanting a certain number on your football jersey?

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J. Black

The opinions expressed are mine and mine alone and may not reflect those of any organization with which I am associated.

[M G]

People are going to laugh at you kid, this topic makes no sense.

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[MetalMedic]

What the heck... a thread has been posted, let's talk about it.

How about apparatus numbering schemes?

At one time in this county, there was a grand plan to number each department geographically as stations 10,20, 30,40, etc. and then number each stations apparatus according to station. Mine being Base 60, and trucks 61, 62, 63, etc...

The BIG plan was to have the truck number designate what the truck was...

x1 - Grass/Brush
x2 - Tanker (Water Tender)
x3 - Rescue
x4 - Squad (Ambulance)
x5 - Squad
x6 - Aeriel
x7 - Special Service Vehicles
x8 - Engine
x9 - Engine

Of course, no one that currently had a number assigned to something different wanted to change.. so now we try to identify ourselves as "Engine 69" and "Squad 61".



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Richard Nester
Orrville (OH) Fire Dept.

[Engine58]

What was the original post? I seen a title that interested me, I go to read about it and all it says is forget it? Just leave it up what you had, who cares what anyone else says..Like Metal Said..You made a Topic Thread leave it there so people can talk about it.

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Andrew
South Amboy, New Jersey
EMS Cadet in NJ
"EMTS DON'T DIE THEY JUST STABILIZE"

[FLAME5]

IM WITH MG,
HAAAA HAAAAA!
BUT YOU ASKED "5" OR"69"

[FireDocCJC]

First Off. No topic is stupid or boreing. I have seen some odd posts but I think that this one makes some since.

The truck on my department that I like the number to is our first out engine for structure fires. Engine 255. Yes I am the type of firefighter that loves a good structure fire. Prefered one that is unoccupied and stable enough to make an interior fight. Able to be saved and intense to fight. I just get the rush when I drive the truck away from the station and and say over the radio, "Cecom, Engine 255 enroute." but that is the way we do things and there are many other ways of doing it.

To each his own.

Fire Doc



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[OFDLUIT33]

No thread is stupid just as there is no stupid question. In my county there are several dispatch agencies but everyone is given a bank of ten numbers to use. Since the main dispatch frequency used in the county I belive is registered to my department(154.190) however we are not dispatched on it any longer we have our own(154.235) we are assigned 0-9. Our unit designations are Squad-0;Engines-1,2,4,5;Hook and Ladder-9;and Tanker-1. We have several other support equipment but most are brush trucks or chiefs vehicles. Most departments have tried to number Squads ending in zero and H&L ending in 9(example Fairview Heights Ladder 29 or East Side Ladder 409. My favorite of course is my engine O'Fallon Engine One.

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The views here are mine and do not reflect that of my department or any of it's members.

[Engine58]

Ok mine are 952 and 952 52 is my favorite Ambulance To Ride on and 51 is our New Rescue Truck, Also For the fire Deparment 508 My Brothers Ladder Truck # anddd...58..Thats for FDNY ENGINE 58....Bought a hat with FDNY Eng 58 on it and Liked the # ever since..may sound strange but hey..its works... Thanks for putting up the question...Didnt know what hte last question was but this seems to make sense to me...

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Andrew
South Amboy, New Jersey
EMS Cadet in NJ
"EMTS DON'T DIE THEY JUST STABILIZE"

[firebartman]

I'm not to sure about this topic either, but on our dept. each Engine Co. is given the number of it's station. However we currently only have seven stations. We also designate reserve pumpers or back up engine companies with a 3 and the station number it's assigned to, (ie. at station # 5 we have "Eng. 5" and a reserve pumper "Eng. 35"

[fireater]

our station has 240 and up to 249

XX0 tanker
XX1 rescues
XX2 engine
XX3 chief
XX4 engine
XX5 engine
XX6 engine
XX7 asst. chief
XX8 asst. chief
XX9 brush truck
we don't have to stay this way one of our other asst. chiefs are 240 since we have 2 pumper tankers 244/246 we don't use 240 at the present time.

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Stay Safe and remember to put the wet stuff on the red stuff

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[FitzBFDT2]

2



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I think you guys know which # I like.

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Kevin M. Fitzhenry, bfdt2@fitzhenry.com
Firefighter, Truck Co. 2
City of Bayonne (NJ) FD
www.bayonnenj.org/fire/

[Engine58]

SHOW OFF!! LoL J/k AWESOME TRUCK!!

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Andrew
South Amboy, New Jersey
EMS Cadet in NJ
"EMTS DON'T DIE THEY JUST STABILIZE"

[Firefighter454]

Each department in our county is issued 3 numbers to assign to their truck. Our department is 13,14 and 15.We can issue different types of trucks to each number,like
Engine 13,Tanker 13, Brush 14,Engine 14,Tanker 14,Engine 13,Service 13,tanker 13.

Not the best in my opinion,but it works.

[firecat1524]

Our numbering system goes like this:

Station # and
1,2,3 are pumpers
4 and 6 are tankers
5 could be a pumper or tanker

squads, rescues, service trucks,chief's cars and brush trucks all have just the kind of truck and the station number.

examples

Station 1 would have Engine 11, Engine 12, Tanker 14, Rescue 1, Brush Truck 1, and Car1

Individual radio numbers are different from station to station, but are F-Station # and 01 - 99

[Engine 101]

Wel what do you know, The post that everyone thought was dumb and that I would get laughed at seems to be doing pretty well

Engine 101
There are no dumb questions, The only dumb questions are the ones that are never asked

[Fireboy422]

Here we have a county wide dispatching, so the first or first two numbers (if the dept. have 4 digit numbers) are the department. Ex my department is 400, surrounding depts. are 500, 000, 100, 200, 600. The second # represents type of apparatus:

xx1 - 1000 gal or less onboard water pumper
xx2 - >1000 gal pumper
xx4 - arial
xx6 - tanker
xx8 - other (grass rig, light rescue)
xx9 - command (chief, deputy chief, lieutenant, captain, squad leader)

the last number usualy is the station the truck is at:
xxx1 - station 1
xxx2 - station 2
xxx3 - station 3

we also have two county owned CFR trucks
R-1
R-2

I'm partial to 423 (my station's only city side truck) and Rescue 1 (R-1) (my department runs the ARFF for the county) R-1 is an Oshkosh, need I say more?

-FF D. Betka
NSFD
Norton Shores, MI

[RFD220]

In Dutchess Co. N.Y. the apparatus is numbered in the following way.
Each department has a number designating them in the field. In the past you would say your department name and apparatus number but now it breaks down as:
63=Department number
11-20+Engine numbers
30-40=Tankers
40-50=Ladder trucks
50-60=Heavy rescues
60-70=Brush (utility) trucks
71- Ambulances
So an example would be a vehicle fire on main street U.S.A. 63-11 (for Roosevelt engine 1) 63-14 (for Roosevelt Engine 4) 63-51 (for the rescue) and 63-71 for the ambulance.
It really cuts down on radio traffic and makes it very easy to follow calls from a dispatcher point of view.

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Jeffrey D. Grey-Captain
Roosevelt Fire District-Hyde Park,N.Y.

[firedoc6]

We have 52 stations. Engines are numbered according to the station number. Our 26 truck companies and 26 units (ambulances) are randomly placed. EXAMPLE: Engine 7, Snorkel 13, Unit 1. There was some talk of renumbering all the companies the number of the house, but most of our firefighters objected. So, this brings a new twist to the topic. Which numbering system do you prefer, and why? Most of us felt as if too many of the same numbers on the radio at the same time could get confusing. I'm sure tradition has something to do with it also.

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[daysleeper47]

Well, my cities FD is very old school. [b/]WE WERE THE FIRST ALL-MOTORIZED DEPT. IN THE COUNTRY![b/] Anyway, the engines correspond to the stations. We at one time or another had 15 stations, so the engines go E2, E3, E6, E7, E9, E12, E15. The ladders go L22 at Station 1 and L24 at Station 2. I have no idea where they got that scheme for the Ladders. (We haven't had an engine at Station 1 since god knows when) The Squid(as the Dept. calls it), Rescue Squad to everyone else, is Res33cue. My personal favorite is Engine 7. It is first-due to my house and is the only Tele-Squrt around. Ok, so they might not work all that well, but I think they look cool when you put it on an '89 Pierce Arrow.

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Joe
Daysleeper47
"When the bell goes ding-ding, its time to get on the woo-woo."
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