[Scan-DC] DCFD using E56 & E76

Wed Jan 21 18:15:10 EST 2009

A while back I asked the guys at the neighborhood firehouse (E18 & T7) about
some equipment with higher than usual numbers that I saw in their station.
They said that these were reserve pieces and told me the numbering scheme,
which I don't remember exactly.  Something like the first digit is the type:
5x for engines, 7x for trucks, etc.  The second digit is the Battalion Chief
whose area it serves: x1 for BFC 1, x2 for BFC 2, etc.  So E56 would be
chief 2's reserve engine.  It seems that each BFC has a reserve engine and
truck, ambulances are a different story.  These were put into use for the
festivities.  What I think is odd that if Engine 18, say, is using reserve
engine 52 then they identify as E52 on the air, and not as their "real"
number of E18.

For a while, DC has used ambulance numbers above 50 for special events.  I
think that these are often from other companies like Life Star.  I hear them
doing roll-call before Nats games, foot races, and other scheduled events,
and the ambulance numbers start with 50.

I wish I could remember the exact numbering scheme for the reserve trucks
and engines, but it is something close to what I described.  And I don't
know where the reserve pieces live, but I would guess that it is somewhere
in the BFC's area or at the training academy.

--Peter--

-----Original Message-----
From: scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Ed Tobias
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 4:04 PM
To: jr-em at raeben.com; fxpd614 at gmail.com; Scan-DC
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] DCFD using E56 & E76

I think you're right about E56 being a reserve that lives in the same house.

I've seen it running before and I also think I've seen it there when E16 was

there.  They may well have been running both engines Monday and Tuesday just

as, for example, Gaithersburg used to run E82 in addition to E81 (now E782 
and E781) when there was enough volunteer staffing to fully staff two 
engines.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jr-em at raeben.com>
To: <fxpd614 at gmail.com>; "Scan-DC" <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] DCFD using E56 & E76

>I recently moved, but used to live a few blocks from E16/L3/B6/A16.  If 
>memory serves me correct, there are always 2-3 engines sitting in that 
>house, but guess the other two are reserve pieces.
>
> I believe E56 was one of the engines that was typically parked behind E16.
>
> Maybe DCFD was running all the apparatus out of that house during the 
> innaug?
>
>
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Fowler <fxpd614 at gmail.com>
>
> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:20:29
> To: Scan-DC<scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] DCFD using E56 & E76
>
>
> Interesting. I wonder if they are trying some sort of new numbering 
> scheme.
>
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Ed Tobias <edtobias at comcast.net> wrote:
>> The DC station that quarters E16, T3, A16 and Btl. 6 is in the block next

>> to
>> where I work.  It's the busiest station in DC and I watch them run all 
>> the
>> time.  Monday and Tuesday the only engine I saw running calls from there 
>> was
>> E56 and it appeared to be a DC rig.  I assume that E16 was either out of
>> service, or assigned elsewhere, and that E56 is a reserve rig that was
>> replacing it.
>>
>> Also, I found the most useful TGs (freqs) to listen to yesterday were 
>> MPDC's
>> Citywide 2 and USPP's Channel 1.  They were non-stop with crowd problems,
>> medical emergencies, lost people, etc.
>>
>> Ed
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: JOHN ANTONELLI
>> To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net ; hithel
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 8:36 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] DCFD using E56 & E76
>> Arlington and Alexandria no longer use the 70 and 50 series designators.
>> Arlington is n the 100s and Alex in the 200s
>>
>> --- On Mon, 1/19/09, hithel <hithel at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> From: hithel <hithel at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: [Scan-DC] DCFD using E56 & E76
>> To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
>> Date: Monday, January 19, 2009, 3:38 PM
>>
>> DCFD seems to be using E56 and Paramedic Engine 76 on downtown calls 
>> today.
>> Are
>> these units from Arlington and Alexandria? Or special inauguration units?

>> Or
>> regular units?
>>
>> Suspicious package call got - E56 + Tower 3 + Squad 1 + Medic 7 + Amb 15 
>> +
>> HazMat Unit
>>
>> Asthma call at 781 7th St NW got E2 + PME76 + A16
>>
>>
>> Peter sz
>>
>>
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