Jersey County (IL) Unit Designators

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Unit Designators

Law Enforcement

Jersey County Sheriff

Unit 1 Sheriff
Unit 2 Chief Deputy
Unit 3 Sgt
Unit 4 Det
Unit 5 Deputy
Unit 6 Deputy
Unit 7 Sgt
Unit 8 Deputy
Unit 9 Deputy
Unit 10 Deputy
Unit 11 Deputy
Unit 12 Deputy(K-9 and County Animal Control)
Unit 13 Deputy
Unit 14 Deputy
Unit 21 Dispatcher

Cars: 305
100 unit (1/10)
102 unit (1/10)
189 unit (12/10)
199 Jerseyville Police - unit (8/18)
206 Jerseyville Police - unit - Black FCVPI MP 25 370 (7/9/25)
218 unit (8/18 w/Jersey Co?)

Elsah Police

Elash 32 (heard 8/18)

Grafton Police Department Usually has 1 officer on duty

Grafton 1 Chief
Grafton 2 Deputy Chief
Grafton 3 Officer
Grafton 4 Not assigned
Grafton 5 Officer
Grafton 6 Not assigned
Grafton 7 Not assigned
Grafton 8 Officer (formerly Grafton 30 or Unit 30)
115 (heard 7/9/22)

Unit 32 Elsah Police Department - Chief - White Crown Vic
Unit 33 Jersey County ESDA - Director - black jeep Cherokee

Grafton 217 (heard 8/18)

Jerseyville Police Department Usually has 2 officers on duty; uses the officers DSN number with the exception of the Sergeants and above.

Unit 1 is Chief
Unit 2 is Asst Police Chief
6 and above is Sergeant

Codes/Terms

Squad Service - Gas

Fire/EMS Unit Designators

Jersey Community Hospital Ambulance (JCH)

Try to keep a rig at QEM Station 1 when call volume is low

ALS 1 - white Ford Expedition - CH Ambulance Association
3-K-12 ALS-12 Ambulance (8/18)
3-K-14 ALS-14 Ambulance
3-K-15 ALS-15 Ambulance (11/21)
3-K-16 ALS-16 Ambulance

Jersey County Coroner

Charles 1 - Coroner (1/15)
C-3 (155.805)
C-16 (155.805)

Alton Memorial Hospital Ambulance

May also respond to areas in QEM FPD. (See Madison County)

2100s - ????

2172 Responding to MVA on Route 100/Raging Rivers (8/18)

4100, 4200, 4300 - QEM Fire Protection District

422 (3/25)
423
424 (3/25)
427 Firefighter units (heard responding on 151.31 7/9/22)

41xx Station 1 (Elsah)
42xx Station 2 (Dow-Equpiment Storage)
43xx Station 3 (Otterville-Future)

4100 Fire Chief (1/25)
4103 Captain
4105 Captain
4111 Rescue unit (3/25)
4112 Pumper old 4152
4113 Pumper/EMS old 4153
4114 Pumper (Reserve Pumper out of Elsah Fire house) old 4151
4116
4117 (6/22/18)
4118
4119
4120
4151 Rescue/EMS (Medium Rescue) old 4161
4161 Tanker/Pumper (2000 Gal Tanker "Blue Smurf Truck") old 4181
4162 (Former 1964 GMC Tanker/Tender, 2000gal)
4171 Brush
4172 Brush/EMS (heard 7/9/22)
4173 (3/25)
4191 Boat 1
4192 Boat 2 (heard 8/25)
4193 Red 4x4 UTV (7/25) (was Bus old 4162)

4252 1700 Gal Tanker at Dow (formerly 4152) (still correct?)
- New Truck - 1/09 -- 2008 Rosebauer Fire/Rescue (primary) replacing 1979 Fore E-One Pumper
- New Truck 6/19 - Pierce Engine (former Olin Brass Fire)

451 ??? xxx First Responders (151.31 9/22)

5800 - Medora Fire

See Macoupin County

6000 - Jerseyville Fire

Uses "Sixty-Hundred" or "Sixty Eleven" (often sounds like 16 due to unclear enunciation

6000 Chief - Ford Explorer (FV 35-6000) (7/25)
6001 (2025)
6011 Engine - FMC #1 (2/25)
6012 Engine - Freightliner (7/25)
6030 Engine? (red 7/25)
6077 Brush - Ford F550 #7
6068 Tanker, 2012 Kenworth/Rocket Fire 3000/1000 PIC
6086 (4/22)
L50 E-One 75ft Quint (new 2021)
??? Polaris Ranger 4x4

6300 - Fieldon Fire

636 Personnel (1/25)

6300 Fire Chief (2/25)
6306 unit ? (2/25)
6313 Engine (at a fire 5/30/25)
6371 Rescue? (8/18) at a fire (5/30/25)

(OLD) Units heard: Pumper, Unit 22,40, 40, 41-6, Unit 42, 42-Pumper, 42-8, Grafton 430, Pumper 45,45-2,45-7F, 45-8,9

Rosedale Township/Fieldon Fire

Paged on 155.805

43 B,C,M,P,W
43 Rescue
50 Engine

ETSB/911 Units

Heard on 155.805

1E911
5E911 (checking out routes into county for mapping)

Highway

"Highway" 2, 12 (2025 on Clinton Law R)

Towing Companies

Len's Towing out of Jerseyville (formerly Unit 49)
Alton Area Towing for the Grafton (formerly Unit 50)
Bowers out of Godfrey but on a limited basis.