Albany County (NY) Fire and Sheriff

ALBANY COUNTY FIRE APPARATUS

This is the official countywide numbering system.  
Different number systems are used by each dispatch 
center.  Each department's local dispatch center 
and number is in parentheses.  Departments with no 
center listed do their own dispatching.

APPARATUS TYPES

00-09  Officer/car
10-19  Pumper
20-29  Pumper-Tanker
30-39  Tanker
40-49  Rescue
50-59  Utility
60-69  Hazmat
70-79  Aerial
80-89  Ambulance
90-99  Officer/portable

DEPARTMENTS

 1  Albany
 2  Altamont (Guilderland 1)
 3  Berne (Hill Towns 3)
 4  Boght (Colonie 1)
 5  Coeymans (Coeymans 5)
 6  Coeymans Hollow (Coeymans 6)
 7  Cohoes
 8  Colonie Village (Colonie 2)
 9  Delmar (Bethlehem 2)
10  Elsmere (Bethlehem 3)
11  Fort Hunter (Guilderland 3)
12  Fuller Road (Colonie 3)
13  Green Island
14  Guilderland (Guilderland 2)
15  Guilderland Center (Guilderland 4)
16  Knox (Hill Towns 16)
17  Latham (Colonie 4)
18  Medusa (Hill Towns 18)
19  Maplewood (Colonie 5)
20  McKownville (Guilderland 5)
21  Menands (Colonie 6)
22  Midway (Colonie 7)
23  New Salem (Hill Towns 23)
24  North Bethlehem (Guilderland 6)
25  Onesquethaw (Hill Towns 25)
26  Ravena Hose (Coeymans 8)
27  Rensselaerville (Hill Towns 27)
28  Schuyler Heights (Colonie 8)
29  Selkirk (Bethlehem 4)
30  Shaker Road - Loudonville (Colonie 9)
31  Slingerlands (Bethlehem 1)
32  Stanford Heights (Colonie 10)
33  Tri Village (Hill Towns 33)
34  Verdoy (Colonie 11)
35  Voorheesville (Hill Towns 35)
36  Watervliet
37  Airport CFR (use Colonie trunk) and Albany County Sheriff Critical Incident Emergency Management
38  West Albany (Colonie 12)
39  Westerlo (Hill Towns 39)
40  Westmere (Guilderland 9)
41  Watervliet Arsenal
49  Albany County Sheriff Fire Coordinator's Office and Capital Region Hazardous Materials Group

AMBULANCES

50  Altamont
51  Delmar-Bethlehem EMS
52  Five Quad
53  Helderberg
54  Rensselaerville
55  Albany County Sheriff's Office EMS
56  Guilderland EMS
57  Western Turnpike
58  Ravena Rescue (also use 85#)
59  Westerlo
63  Empire

Albany County Sheriff Call Signs

To complicate a call sign system that can only be described as "a mess": As the department transitions from 3 digits to 4 digits current/former 3 digit units will begin to identify with a preceding "3", this is especially true for patrol supervisors. Some units belonging to the Fire Coordinator's Office will use a "4" instead. This is also the case for some Emergency Management units which can't seem to figure out how they want to identify (i.e. the conflict between "3712" and "4950" [confirmed as an Emergency Management unit, not Fire Coordinator's office]).

Basic Breakdown
(3)1##: Headquarters and patrol
(3)2##: Headquarters
(3)3##: Corrections
(3)4##: Varies
(3)5##: Airport units
(3)6##: Communications
(3)7##: Critical Incident Emergency Management and utility units
(3)8##: Unknown, formerly EMS
(3)9##: High command and investigators
49##: Fire Coordinator's Office
55##: Emergency Medical Services
58##: Communications

List of Units
100: Sheriff (Note 1)

112: Unknown Headquarters

113: Autism awareness/breast cancer awareness car

114: Unknown Headquarters

3140-3156: Patrol

203-207: Civil Process Server?

210: Inmate transport

211-214: Unknown

215-223: Inmate transport van

225: Fleet Manager

228: Civil process server?

3229: County facility security K9

232-233: Unknown

240: Dive Unit boat
241: Patrol boat

306-308: Inmate transport car
309: Work Alternative van
310: Inmate transport car
313: Inmate Work Force van
314: Inmate transport car
315: Inmate Work Force van
320: Inmate transport
322: Inmate transport car
393-398: Alternative call sign for "Transport-#" units

401: Maintenance supervisor
402: Emergency Management? Maintenance?

403: Unknown Emergency Management
405: Unknown
407: Supervisor
409: Boat tow unit?
413: Unknown

417-421: Patrol supervisor
422-429: Patrol

430: K9 sergeant
431: K9 supervisor
432: K9 sergeant
433: K9 deputy
434-435: K9
436: K9 senior investigator
437: K9
439: K9?

440-442: School resource deputy

478: Either anti-drug or STOP DWI awareness unit
479: Fire engine (Note 2)

502-519: Airport deputy on foot
520: Airport tactical unit? Utility vehicle?
521-524: Airport patrol car

3601: Communications supervisor
3602: Communications supervisor?
3605: Communications intern?

701: Special Operations Mobile Command Center
702: Haz-Mat/Search and Rescue
704: Mobile Education Center
706: Emergency Response Team member transport van
707: Special Operations command unit
709: Semi tractor
711: Patrol boat
3712: Technical/Search and Rescue truck
714: Semi tractor
715: Unknown
718: Emergency Response Team?
719: UTV
720: Tracked UTV
721: STOP DWI awareness car
725-728: HMMWV

734: Emergency Response Team armored vehicle

740: Mobile Vaccination Squad
741: Community Support Center

801-803: Unknown

902: Undersheriff?
903: Chief Deputy of Field Command (K9)

905: Investigator?
908: Investigator?
909: Investigator?

911: Emergency Response Team van?

913: Investigator?

4901: Fire Coordinator
4902: Chief Deputy Fire Coordinator?
4903: Forensic Hazmat Team Chief/hazmat deputy fire coordinator
4904-4905: Deputy fire coordinator
4906: Hazmat deputy fire coordinator
4907: Deputy fire coordinator
4908: J-Fire Deputy Fire Coordinator
4910: Capital Region Hazmat Coordination/hazmat deputy fire coordinator
4921: Reserve fire engine
4950: Recruitment and Retention car
4961: Capital Region Hazardous Materials Group Hazmat Response Unit
4962: Hazmat second piece? Reserve brush truck?

5501: EMS Coordinator?
5502: EMS lieutenant
5503: Paramedic supervisor
5505: Paramedic supervisor
5580-5584: Ambulance
5591-5598: Advanced Life Support flycar

5801: Senior telecommunicator

Portable 1: Jail portable?
Transport 1-Transport 6: Inmate transport

EVOC-1-EVOC-2: Emergency vehicle operator's course training cars

M1-M3: Maintenance

BL: Information Technology intern?

Note 1: 100 is the Sheriff's pickup, but it has been recently wrapped in a autism awareness wrap and is being used as an autism awareness car. Seems it's no longer being used by the Sheriff (speculating he's identifying as "901").
Note 2: Formerly an E-One pumper, likely intended to be used in an awareness campaign and never saw service.

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