Albany County (NY) Fire and Sheriff
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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, Guilderland 11) 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) 38 West Albany (Colonie 12) 39 Westerlo (Hill Towns 39) 40 Westmere (Guilderland 9) 41 Watervliet Arsenal 42 Sabic Innovative Plastics Fire Brigade 49 Albany County Sheriff Fire Coordinator's Office and Capital Region Hazardous Materials Group
LAW ENFORCEMENT
*"Law enforcement" refers to all agencies tasked with law enforcement duties, not just police. I.e. "Cohoes Law Enforcement" refers to Animal Control, Code Enforcement, and the Police Department 31 Sheriff 32 Sheriff 33 Sheriff 34 Sheriff 35 Sheriff 36 Sheriff 37 Sheriff 39 County Law Enforcement 58 Sheriff 59 Coeymans Police 62 Cohoes Law Enforcement 76 Green Island Police 98 Watervliet Police
AMBULANCES
50 Altamont Rescue & Altamont Fair Ambulance 51 Delmar-Bethlehem EMS 52 Five Quad 53 Helderberg 55 Sheriff 56 Guilderland EMS 57 County Mental Health (ACCORD) 58 Ravena Rescue 63 Ambulnz 64 Mohawk Ambulance
MISC AGENCIES
82 Guilderland Emergency Management? Town of Guilderland? 83 Town of New Scotland Public Safety Commission
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
101: Executive Undersheriff
102:Undersheriff
103: Not in use?
104: Chief Deputy of Professional Standards
105: Unknown high command
107: Unknown high command
112: Unknown Headquarters
113: Autism awareness/breast cancer awareness car
114: Unknown Headquarters
3140-3156: Patrol
3167: Future use as patrol supervisor?
201 and 202: Unknown
203: Drone unit
204-207: Unknown
210: Inmate transport
211-214: Unknown
215-218: Inmate transport van
220-221: Inmate transport van
223: Inmate transport van
225: Fleet Manager
228: Civil process server?
(3)229: County facility security K9
230: Unknown
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
318-319: Inmate transport car
320: Inmate transport
322: Inmate transport car
393-398: Alternative call sign for "Transport-#" units
401: Maintenance supervisor
401: Unknown
402: Unknown Emergency Management
402: Maintenance supervisor?
403: Unknown Emergency Management
404: Unknown Emergency Management
405: Unknown
407: Supervisor
408: Surveillance vehicle?
409: Boat tow unit?
413: Unknown
(3)417-418: Patrol supervisor
419: K-9 supervisor
(3)420-421: 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?
440-443: School resource deputy
449: Event unit?
451: Unknown sergeant
470-473: Not in use?
478: Either anti-drug or STOP DWI awareness unit
479: Fire engine (Note 1)
501: Airport Commander (Inspector)?
502-519: Airport deputy on foot
520-524: Airport patrol car
530: Airport tactical unit? Utility van?
3601: Communications Director
3602: Communications supervisor
3605: Communications intern?
701: Special Operations Mobile Command Center
702: Haz-Mat/Search and Rescue truck
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
801-802: Unknown Emergency Management
803: Unknown
900: Not in use?
903: Chief Deputy of Field Command (K9)
904: Investigator
905: Investigator?
907-909: Investigator?
911: Investigator van?
912: Investigator?
913: Investigator sergeant
917: Surveillance vehicle
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 (HazMat 1): Capital Region Hazardous Materials Group Hazmat Response Unit
4962: Hazmat second piece? Reserve brush truck?
5501: EMS Captain
5502: EMS Lieutenant
5503: Paramedic supervisor
5505: Paramedic supervisor
5508-5509: Unknown
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 deputy
Unit #/Portable#/Detail #: Foot patrol deputy
Note 1: Formerly an E-One pumper, likely intended to be used in an awareness campaign and never saw service.
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