Baldwin County (AL)
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Baldwin County
Baldwin County Sheriff's Office
Baldwin County Emergency Management Agency
- 155.280 WZJ574 BM North Baldwin Search and Rescue Deprecated 5/23/24
North Baldwin Sheriff's Search and Rescue
- Possibly using MURS radios/frequencies
Municipalities and Districts
Loxley
- 155.7375 154.6675 WQIC612 RM 503 DPL Police: Dispatch FMN Deprecated 7/25/24
Pine Grove
- Volunteer Fire is exclusively on Alabama Interoperable Radio System (AIRS)
- 460.05 BM CSQ PGVFD Sta 71 Fire Station 71 FMN Fire-Tac (Deprecated 11/23) WQNS228 Licensed for paging for Bay Minette
General Information
Baldwin County is the largest county in Alabama and is roughly the size of Rhode Island. It has a diverse geography extending from the beach on the Gulf of Mexico to coastal plain and farmland to timber country in the north. Much of the area is rural - serviced by volunteer fire departments, the Baldwin County Sheriff's Office, and small police departments. Notable exceptions are the popular vacation destinations of Gulf Shores, Orange Beach, and Foley whose communities support well-funded, staffed, and equipped police and fire departments. The Eastern Shore cities of Spanish Fort, Daphne, and Fairhope also support robust police and fire departments. And, the county seat of Bay Minette has full-time police and fire departments. Emergency Medical Services are privately contracted through MedStar with the exception of Orange Beach which operates their own fire department EMS units.
Public Safety departments in Baldwin County operate on one or more of the following three radio systems:
- Alabama Interoperable Radio System (AIRS)
- Bay Minette, Daphne, Foley, Robertsdale (NXDN)
- Baldwin County (conventional VHF radios)
The Radio Reference Database serves as the most up-to-date source of radio systems and frequency usage in Baldwin County and should be consulted regularly to ensure accuracy. The purpose of this page is to assist readers with a better understanding of what is being heard on their scanner.
All fire department and medical calls in Baldwin County are dispatched from the 911 Center in Robertsdale regardless of their radio system and there is a great deal of multicasting so it is common to hear calls across all three systems. Depending on the department and the nature of the call, dispatching may be heard on a single talkgroup, multiple talkgroups, or one or more of the five geographic VHF channels (North, East, South, West, or Central). Calls may include fire departments, emergency medical services, and lifeguards as well as coordination with medical helicopters.
A dispatched call will include the following:
- Station (fire department or MedStar unit)
- District (subsection of the fire department area if applicable)
- Zone (fire department station where the response is needed)
- Nature of the call
- Address
- Response level
The list below provides the fire department station identifiers.
Fire Department Station Identifiers
Station | Department |
20 | Gulf Shores |
21 | Orange Beach |
22 | Oyster Bay |
24 | Bon Secour |
28 | Fort Morgan |
30 | Foley |
31 | Elberta |
33 | Josephine |
34 | Magnolia Springs |
35 | Perdido Beach |
37 | Lillian |
38 | Barnwell |
40 | Summerdale |
44 | Fish River / Marlow |
50 | Robertsdale |
52 | Silverhill |
53 | Elsanor |
57 | Seminole |
58 | Fairhope |
60 | Loxley |
63 | Ronsinton |
64 | Belforest |
65 | Styx River |
66 | Daphne |
67 | Gateswood |
68 | Spanish Fort |
70 | Bay Minette |
71 | Pine Grove |
72 | Stapleton |
74 | Whitehouse Forks |
78 | Crossroads |
80 | Rabun |
85 | Perdido |
88 | Stockton |
90 | Tensaw |
91 | Lottie |
97 | Little River |
Codes and Signals
In keeping with the national trend away from radio codes and signals (see National Incident Management System), fire department and medical dispatching has largely migrated to plain language with the exception of the designation of the response level.
Response Level
- Alpha -- Non-life threatening // Non-emergency response
- Bravo -- Possibly life threatening // Emergency response
- Charlie -- Life threatening // Emergency response
- Delta -- Serious life threat // Emergency response
- Echo -- Life status questionable // Emergency response
- Omega -- Public assist // Non-emergency response
Similarly, law enforcement agencies have also adopted more plain language in their radio communications and this is especially prevalent in multi-department operations such as vehicle pursuits or manhunts. Within individual departments, however, radio codes may still be utilized and most follow the 10 Codes used by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency.
Alabama Law Enforcement Agency 10 Codes
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Radio Systems in Baldwin County
Public Safety
Listening to AIRS in Baldwin County
Listening to the Bay Minette, Daphne, Foley, Robertsdale System
Business / Utility / Private
- Communications Engineering Services
- Hurricane Electronics (Orange Beach)
- Hurricane Electronics (Spanish Fort)
- Telecomm Network (Robertsdale)
- The Communication Store
- Two Way Communications (Fort Morgan)
- Two Way Communications (Orange Beach UHF)
- Two-Way Communications (Bay Minette)
- Two-Way Communications (Orange Beach VHF)
- Riviera Utilities
Gulf State Park (Gulf Shores)
For more info, see Alabama Department of Natural Resources and Conservation
- 159.360 155.3175 WQRK595 RM CC 1 TG 1 SL 2 Gulf St Park D (Former) Operations DMR Deprecated (Former Use/Testing)
- 159.360 155.3175 WQRK595 RM 431 DPL Gulf St Park Campground Security/Operations FMN Public Works (still in use 2024)
Federal / Military
Live Audio Feeds
- Baldwin County Fire and EMS, State Troopers
- Baldwin County Amateur Repeaters
- Baldwin County Area Airports
- Mobile Alabama Bay Marine 13
Wiki Articles
- Bay Minette Municipal Airport (1R8)
- Baldwin County Businesses
- Baldwin County Federal Agencies
- Fish River Seaplane Base (5AL)
- Foley Municipal Airport (5R4)
- HL Sonny Callahan Airport (CQF)
- Gulf Shores International Airport (GUF) (Jack Edwards Field) (JKA)
- NOLF Barin (NBJ)
- Chief of Naval Air Training (CNATRA)
- Civil Air Patrol
- Deepwater Horizon / BP Oil Spill
- Gulf States Milcom
External Links
- Baldwin County Official Site
- Baldwin County Emergency Management Agency
- Baldwin County Sheriff's Office
- Baldwin County 911 Center
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