Rensselaer County (NY) Firefighting

RENSSELAER COUNTY FIRE APPARATUS

APPARATUS

Fire apparatus are designated by station number 
and sequential number 1 through 9.

Specialized units are designated 
by apparatus type and station number.

Fire department ambulances have higher numbers.
Berlin FD's (Station 2) ambulance is the only unit 
for which a zero is prefixed to the station number 
to avoid confusion. 

Station+Car+#      Chiefs and Command Officers
Station+Car+11#  Fire Police
Station+Car+71#  Safety Officers
Station+Car+81#  other officers

COUNTY UNITS

Bureau Cars  1-88   Emergency Management
Bureau Car    89      Communications
	Units 89-01 to 89-999  Dispatchers
Bureau Cars 90-100 Utility Vehicles

Fire Cars = Coordinators
	Battalion  = Battalion staff

Cars 60-79   Fire Investigation  (60 is the van)


FIRE COMPANIES

 1 Averill Park
 2 Berlin  
 3 Best-Luther
 4 Brunswick #1
 5 Buskirk
 6 Castleton(-on-Hudson)
 7 Center Brunswick
 8 Clinton Heights (2)
 9 Defreestville
10 Eagle Mills
11 East Greenbush (3)
12 East Schodack
13 Grafton
14 Hemstreet Park
15 Hoags Corners
16 Hoosick
17 Hoosick Falls
18 Hoosic Valley
19 Johnsonville
20 Melrose
21 Mountain View
22 Nassau  
23 North Hoosick
24 Petersburgh
25 Pittstown
26 Pleasantdale
27 Poestenkill  (2)
28 Raymertown
29 Rensselaer City
30 Schaghticoke
31 Schodack Landing
32 Schodack Valley
33 County Fire Investigation (rarely used?)
34 South Schodack
35 Speigletown
36 Stephentown  
37 Taborton
38 Tsatsawassa
39 Troy City  (rarely used)
40 Valley Falls
41 West Hoosick
42 Wynantskill
43 West Sand Lake
44 not used
45 not used
46 not used
47 White Creek (Washington)
48 not used
49 not used

76 County Highway Department
77 Police
78 Wells Communications
79 County Bureau of Public Safety

STATIONS by BATTALION

Battalion 1 - 14,18,19,20,26,30,35,40

Battalion 2 - 4,7,10,21,25,28

Battalion 3 - 1,9,15,27,37,38,42,43

Battalion 4 - 3,6,8,11,12,22,31,32,34

Battalion 5 - 2,5,13,16,17,23,24,36,41

Battalion 6 - Troy

Battalion 7 - Rensselaer

REGIONS

North - Hoosick, Pittstown, Schaghticoke

Central - Berlin, Brunswick, Grafton, North Greenbush,
	Petersburgh, Poestenkill, Stephentown

South - Nassau, Sand Lake, Schodack, Rensselaer

East Greenbush

Countywide - Troy


RADIO CODES

Signal 10  No cause
Signal 13  Start of tour (Hoosick)
Signal 20  Investigating
Signal 30  Working fire
Signal 90  DOA

Code 100  Auxiliary requested for refreshments

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