Worcester Regional

Worcester Police Fire and EMS Station Locations

Worcester EDACS-WIDE System Frequencies

IMPORTANT NOTE: Rebanding of the Worcester Trunk System has been completed. Please see the updated LCN order listed below. A simple reprogram of your scanner will allow you to again follow the Worcester TRS.

Frequency	LCN
856.5125	1
854.1375	2
854.8875	3
854.4625	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

DEC	AFS	Description	Comments
549	04-045	F1 Fire Admin	Typically used for companies on-the-air, not responding to incidents
545	04-041	F2 Fire Ops A	North End Multi Company Responses Typically used if Car 3 assigned to the call
546	04-042	F3 Fire Ops B	South End Multi Company Responses Typically used if Car 4 assigned to the call
547	04-043	F4 Fire Ops C	Single Company Response (ie: Medical, MVA, etc) Also linked to 460.050 (DPL 051)
548	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 or SCUBA alerts
577	04-081	F6 Fire Prevention	Fire Code Enforcement
578	04-082	F7 FD Staff	Used mostly by administration and chiefs
583	04-087	TAC-10	Overflow Fireground channel
580	04-084	TAC-11	Training/Overflow Fireground channel
582	04-086	TAC-12	Overflow Fireground channel
586	04-092	Worcester EMS Med 9 Simulcast	Used for Inter-op purposes on 462.950
587	04-093	Mid-State Fire Simulcast	Used for Inter-op purposes on 33.70
588	04-094	South County Fire Simulcast	Used for Inter-op purposes on 33.62

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, District Chief
3rd Alarm: 2 Engines, 1 Ladder, Notification of Department Chief and Deputy Chief
4th Alarm: 2 Engines
5th Alarm: 2 Engines
6th 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

DEC	AFS	Description	Comments
1057	08-041	F1 East Dispatch	Routes 1-10
1058	08-042	F2 West Dispatch	Routes 11-20
1089	08-081	F3 CJIS	Record Checks
1121	08-121	F5 Talkaround
1059	08-043	F6 TAC-1
1061	08-045	F11 Details
581	04-085	F16 Talkaround
1125	08-125	BCI/Detectives

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Citywide Talkgroups

TGID	Description
08-123	Fire/EMS/PD Interagency
13-001	Event A
13-002	Event B
13-003	Event C
13-004	911 Emergency (I/O)

The Interagency talkgroup is primarily used for communication between FD and EMS or PD and EMS.
The 911 Emergency talkgroup is in every raio in the city. It is monitored by a Fire Department dispatcher.

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Airport Talkgroups

DEC	AFS	Description
1702	13-046	Airport Police
1579	12-053	Airport Admin/Emergency

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Worcester EMS

ID	FREQUENCY	TONE	Comments
UMASS EMS/MED-9	462.950	186.2	Primary Ops
UMASS EMS	453.4875	186.2	TAC-1, Secondary

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.

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Other Non-Public Safety Talkgroups

Confirmed use (as of 10/07). Note there are numerous Talk Groups listed on other sites, most are inactive. It would take up too much space to list them all on this page. A lot of these TGs use informal communications (e.g. "Hey Bob!") and at the most refer to a "base" as dispatch (e.g. "Water Base"). Some of these TGs. have very brief communications and extreme bouts of inactivity. This is mainly due to the nature of their jobs not needing radio communications as much as public safety agencies, and the proliferation of cell phones for use by smaller city agencies.

TGID	Description
12-041	DPW Water Dept.
12-042	DPW Water Filtration (Sewer Treatment Plant)
12-043	DPW Sewer Dept.
12-044	DPW Sanitation Dept. (Trash Trucks) (?)
12-045	DPW Street Dept.
12-046	DPW Engineering
12-047	Code Enforcement
12-051	DPW Parks/Cemeteries (Mostly Cemetery OPS)
12-052	DPW Forestry (Tree Removal)
12-056	DPW Snow Emergency (Confirmed use years ago during a storm)
12-081	DPW Garage (Central Garage)
12-083	DPW Traffic Signals/Signs (?)
12-084	DPW Parking Control Officers/Parking Meter Maint. (No activity heard on 12-125)
12-085	School Transportation A (Special Needs buses)
12-134	DPW Administration (?)
12-043	DPW Park Maint.
13-047	Maint. A (Maintaining City Hall Maybe?)

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Worcester TRS Information information is current, up to date and confirmed by contributors: Greg/Lynskey85, Joe/ScanWorcester

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