Worcester Department Information
Department Information
Fire Department Responses
Single company responses include: Medical Assists, Private Residential Alarms, Local Alarms, Brush Fires, Motor Vehicle accidents, Vehicle Fires, Spills, etc.
Multi Company Responses include:
- One Engine, One Ladder, the Rescue, and a district chief for: Smell of Natural Gas, Hazmat Situation, Elevator Problems, Accidents with Entrapment, etc
- 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.
- Two Engines, One Ladder, rescue and the District chief response on most master boxes.
- 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, Field Communications, 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, Tower from Holden, 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.
EMS Responses and Information
Ambulance service in the City of Worcester is provided by Worcester EMS aka UMass EMS. Primary operations are on the city P25 trunk system. 462.950 110.9 is used only by mutual aid ambulances that don't have access to the P25 trunk system.
24 hour trucks:
- Paramedic 1
- Paramedic 2
- Paramedic 3
- Paramedic 6 (Shrewsbury)
- Ambulance 11 (BLS Only)
Impact trucks (as needed):
- Paramedic 4
- Paramedic 5
- Paramedic 7
- Paramedic 8
- Paramedic 9
- Ambulance 12 (BLS Only)
