Worcester Regional

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Worcester Police Fire and EMS Station Locations

Worcester EDACS-WIDE System Frequencies

Frequency LCN
851.4625 1
851.9125 2
852.0375 3
852.3625 4
854.2125 5
855.4875 6
855.7125 7
855.7375 8
855.9625 9
855.9875 10

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Fire Department Talkgroups

TGID Description Comments
04-045 F1 Fire Admin Single Company Responses
04-041 F2 Fire Ops A' North End Multi Company Responses
Used if Car 3 assigned to the call
04-042 F3 Fire Ops B South End Multi Company Responses
Used if Car 4 assigned to the call
04-043 F4 Fire Ops C Multi Company Responses
Used if Ops A and Ops B both in use
04-044 F5 Fire Dispatch Used to dispatch all calls:
Single tone - One Company or Message
Two tones - Multi Companies
Three tones - Reported Building Fires
04-086 F15 Mutual Aid Patch Can be patched both ways to 33.62 or 33.70.
04-082 Training
08-123 Fire/EMS/PD Common Talkgroup
04-092 Worcester EMS Med 9 Simulcast Used for Inter-op purposes on 462.950
04-093 Mid-State Fire Simulcast Used for Inter-op purposes on 33.70
04-094 South County Fire Simulcast Used for Inter-op purposes on 33.62


Click Here for More Detailed Information on the Worcester Fire Department

Single company responses include: Medical Assists, Private Residential Alarms, Local Alarms, Brush Fires, Motor Vehicle accidents, Vehicle Fires, Spills, etc.


Multi Company Responses include:

  1. One Engine, One Ladder, the Rescue, and a district chief for: Smell of Natural Gas, Hazmat Situation, Elevator Problems, Accidents with Entrapment, etc
  2. Two Engines, One Ladder, and the District Chief for: Private Commercial Alarms, Boiler Problems, Electrical Problems, Stove Fires, other appliance fires (driers, etc), some Master Boxes, etc.
  3. Two Engines, One Ladder, rescue and the District chief response on most master boxes.
  4. Two Engines for: Medical call or Motor Vehicle accident on I290. Two engines sent in order to have one come each direction in case the location was given incorrectly.


Reported building fires get a response of Four Engines, Two Ladders, the Rescue, a district Chief, and an additional Ladder for RIT.
Subsequent Alarms:
2nd Alarm: 2 Engines, 1 Ladder, Special Ops District Chief, Safety Officer, Deputy Chief
3rd Alarm: 2 Engines, 1 Ladder
4th Alarm: 2 Engines, District Chief, Department Chief
5th Alarm: 2 Engines


Common mutual aid is an Engine and Tower from Auburn, Engine from Millbury, Engine from Shrewsbury, and an Engine from Paxton. This mutual aid does not normally occur until at least a fourth alarm. City companies are moved up before mutual aid is called in.


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Fire Department Station Alert Talkgroups

The only activity on these TGs is they are keyed to activate paging and Klaxon systems in the fire houses. There is no conversation or announcements.

TGID Description
05-122 South Division
05-123 Headquarters
05-124 Park Ave
05-125 Webster Square
05-126 Brown Square
05-127 Southeast Division
05-130 Burncoat
05-131 Tatnuck
05-133 Greendale
05-134 Providence-The Rock
05-137 McKeon Rd
05-120 All Stations Alert


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Police Department Talkgroups

TGID Description Comments
08-041 F1 East Dispatch Routes 1-10
08-042 F2 West Dispatch Routes 11-20
08-081 F3 CJIS
09-001 F4 Talkaround
08-121 F5 Talkaround
08-043 F6 Tac-1/Talkaround
08-045 F11 Details
04-085 F16 Talkaround Actually a Fire Mutual Aid channel
but never heard anything but PD
08-125 Detective Bureau
08-127 Arson Investigators
08-123 PD/Fire/EMS Common Tie


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Airport Talkgroups

TGID Description Comments
13-046 Airport Police
12-053 Airport Emergency Comms
12-130 Airport Admin General Communications
12-135 Airport Tower
12-136 Airport Ground
12-137 Airport Unicomm


Not too much activitiy on these talkgroups, especially during off hours, but they should be picking up with Worcester getting commercial jets back in November.

Worcester EMS

Ambulance Service in the City of Worcester is provided by Worcester EMS aka UMass EMS. They operate on 462.950 186.2 with Paramedics 1 through 5 providing primary coverage to the city. P1, P2, P3 are 24 hours per day, P4 is 20 hours per day, and P5 is 10 hours per day. Backup coverage is provided by P6 (Shrewsbury 911 truck) as well as various private companies.


--Lynskey85