[Scan-DC] DCFD using E56 & E76

Wed Jan 21 20:05:05 EST 2009

I'll bet that the reserve number is the type of rig plus the battalion 
number.  So, it would make sense for E56 to be a reserve piece replacing 
E16, since E16 is in  B6.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Rothschild" <lists at peter-rothschild.com>
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Cc: <hithel at yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] DCFD using E56 & E76

>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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