Quinebaug Valley Region

Quinebaug Valley Emergency Communications Regional 911 and Fire/EMS dispatch center serving much of northeast Connecticut Located on Wescott Rd. in Danielson Connecticut at the CSP Troop D barracks Information gathered by Greg Lynskey (lynskey85)

Here are the Fire/EMS companies covered by and dispatched by QV, with the town they serve in and station designators:

Department	Town Served	Station ID's
Attawaugan Fire Department	Killingly	62
Atwood Hose Fire Company	Plainfield	96
Baltic Fire Department	Baltic	24
Bungay Fire Brigade	S Woodstock	77
Cabterbury Fire Department	Canterbury	93
Central Village Fire Company	Plainfield	97
Chaplain Fire Department	Chaplin	09
Community Fire Company	North Grosvenordale, Thompson	81
Community Ambulance	Thompson	81
Danielson Fire Department	Killingly	61
Dayville Fire Company	Killingly	63
East Brooklyn Fire Department	Brooklyn	92
East Killingly Fire Department	Killingly	64
East Putnam Fire Department	Putnam	79
East Thompson Fire Department	Thompson	85
Eastford Fire Department	Eastford	71
Griswold Fire Department	Griswold	55
Griswold Ambulance	Griswold	55
Hampton Fire Department	Hampton	12
Hampton-Chaplin Ambulance	Hampton	12
Jewitt City Fire Department	Griswold	56
K-B Ambulance	Killingly, Brooklyn	61
Lisbon Fire Department	Lisbon	54
Moosup Fire Department	Plainfield	94
Moosup-Plainfield Ambulance	Plainfield	94 and 95
Mortlake Fire Department	Brooklyn	90+
Muddy Brook Fire Department	N and E Woodstock	75
Oneco Fire Department	Sterling	68
Plainfield Fire Department	Plainfield	95
Pomfret Fire Department	Pomfret	70
Putnam Fire Department	Putnam	78++
Putnam-Pomfret Ambulance	Putnam, Pomfret	78++
Quinebaug Fire Department	Quinebaug, Thompson	83
Scotland Fire Department	Scotland	16
South Killingly Fire Department	Killingly	65
Sterling Fire Department	Sterling	67
Thompson Hill Fire Department	Thompson	84
Voluntown Fire Department	Voluntown	53
West Thompson Fire Department	North Grosvenordale, Thompson	82
Williamsville Engine Company	Killingly	60
Woodstock Volunteer Fire Department	Woodstock	76
Woodstock Ambulance	Woodstock	76

+ Mortlake Department is the only QV department that has two active Stations. They are known as Station 190 and Station 290.

++ Emergency Services in Putnam are dispatched by Station WA which is Putnam Police Dispatch. Station WA also handles 911 calls from the Putnam Special Services Disptrict, a one-square mile region in the downtown of Putnam. All other 911 calls are handled by QV.

Radio Information

• 33.80 179.9 - Main Tone Dispatch (used for minitor pagers)
• 152.0075 CSQ - Alpha page dispatch
• Tones and voice go over both of these frequencies.
• You will also here DTMF on 33.80 which is used to activate station sirens.
• On 152.0075 you will here data bursts used to send alpah page messaging.
• QV members have access to both minitors or alpha pagers.
• Also note, Several other regional dispatch centers use 33.80 179.9 for there dispatching. Depending on your location you may also here Station WW (Willimatic area), KX (Colchester Area), TN (Tolland County), and more.

Low Band Operations

• 33.76 179.9 "76" Fireground operations
• 33.90 179.9 "90" Fireground operations
• 33.88 179.9 "88" EMS operations
• These lowband frequencies are the primary operations.
• Each department is assigned either 76 or 90 for their ops.

UHF Operations

• QV has been moving toward UHF ops with many departments now having UHF radios that are crossbanded back to the Low Band.
• Those that do not have UHF radios have either Lo-Band Crossbanded to UHF or they have VHF crossbanded to Low Band and possibly UHF.
• All departments have the necessary mobile repeaters to handle the multiple band operations.

• UHF Channel 1 460.600R 192.8/465.600 123.0 (this is the Thompson Repeater)
• UHF Channel 2 460.600R 192.8/465.600 192.8 (this is the S Killingly Repeater)
• UHF Channel 3 460.600R 192.8/465.600 141.3 (this is the Griswold Repeater)
• UHF Channel 4 460.600R 192.8/465.600 127.3 (this is the Sterling Repeater)
• Fireground 1 452.1875 103.5
• Fireground 2 458.4125 179.9
• FirePolice (essentially Fire Investigations and Support) 465.5875 179.9
• Vehicle Cross Band 458.2375 (see department PL info below)
• FAST (RIT) 453.2375 D125
• Brooklyn Repeater 453.4625R 118.8
• UHF Channel 11 453.375R 123.0/458.375 123.0 (This is the Union Repeater)
• UHF Channel 12 453.375R 123.0/458.375 210.7 (This is the Brooklyn Tower)
• UHF Channel 13 453.375R 123.0/458.375 D065 (This is the S Killingly Tower)
• Brooklyn Backup Repeater 460.600 192.8/460.600 D205
• Department Low Power 453.2375 (see department PL info below)
• Department High Power 460.600R (see department PL info below)

PL Information

I only have Department PL for the extreme northeast corner departments. Anything above listed as see department PL info below means the listed departments use the following PLs on the listed frequency:

• Quinebaug Fire - 218.1
• Community Fire - 110.9
• West Thompson Fire - 79.7
• East Thompson Fire - 67.0
• Muddy Brook Fire - 74.4
• Thompson Hill Fire - 97.4
• Muddy Brook also uses 453.2375 203.5 for Interior Ops

VHF Radio Ops

As mentioned, many several departments also use VHF frequencies for their ops.

• Quinebaug FD Channel 1 154.220 127.3
• Quinebaug FD Channel 2 154.430 127.3
• Woodstock Townwide FD 155.775 D023
• Putnam FD Channel 1 154.355 141.3
• Putnam FD Channel 2 153.830 141.3
• Danielson/Killingly FD 154.385 118.8
• QV Emergency Mgmt Region 4 153.965 162.2
• Thompson Townwide Repeater 159.195R CSQ
• Lisbon Fire 154.130 141.3
• Voluntown Fire 154.145 141.3

Regional EMS

• Paramedic Service is provided by the "QV Medic" who is based out of Day Kimball Hospital in Putnam.
• QV Medic 1 is dispatched via 33.80 152.0075 and operates on whatever frequency is being used by the local BLS ambulance.
• Hartford Lifestar 155.385 123.0
• UMass Lifeflight 155.160 118.8
• Depending on what part of QV, you may hear either of these called.
• UHF CMED uses a PL of 131.8 throughout QV.

Department Apparatus

QV has recently changed from using the pretty much statewide "Codes" for types of calls, apparatus movement, etc and have gone to using strictly plain english as party of ICS compliance. They do, however, still use a standarized Equipment designator. The following info is from the QV website http://www.qvec.org

• Engine: Minimum 750 gpm pump and minimum 300 gallon tank
• Engine-Tanker: minimum 750 gpm pump and minimum 1000 gallon tank
• Hose: Less than 750 gpm pump or no pump and minimum 2000 feet or 4" or greater hose
• Hose-Tender: Minimum 750 gpm pump and minimum 2000 feet of 4" or greater hose
• Tanker: minimum 1000 gpm pump and minimum 1500 gallon tank
• Engine Squirt (EQ): minimum 750 gpm pump, minimum 500 gallon tank, and a telesquirt prepiped aerial
• Ladder: At least a 65 foot ladder, pump not required
• Tower: At least a 65 foot ladder with platform
• Rescue 1: carries basic medical supplies and hand tools
• Rescue 3: Medical supplies and light rescue tools
• Rescue 4: Medical supplies and full heavy rescue tools and supplies
• Rescue 5, 6, 7: Ambulance
• Forestry: Restricture to brush use only. Does not respond to any other calls.
• Service: Essentially anything else. A brush unit used to respond to anything other than brush would be a service.

Upon determining what a unit is, it also receives the station designator. For example:

• Rescue 483 is Quinebaug Heavy Rescue
• Rescue 581 is Community Ambulance 1 and Rescue 582 would be community Ambulance 2
• Engine Tank 185 (also ET185) would be Thompson Engine Tank

Even with the designators listed above, if a piece of apparatus goes out of QV, it receives a plain english name per ICS. For example:

• E181 would become Community Engine 1
• R578 would become Putnam Ambulance 1

In general:

• Rescue 1-4 become 'Dept' Rescue #
• Rescue 5-7 become 'Dept' Ambulance #
• Engine Tank become 'Dept' Engine #

and so on.

It is up to the department to number their apparatus if they have multiple that would become the same, i.e. E181 and ET181.

I think this is it for now. Again, more official QV information can be found at http://www.qvec.org

Also, all frequency and PL information comes from my records which are primarily confirmed from either listening or seeing radio programming files. If you have any confirmed corrections please let me know. ~lynskey85