MedStar EMS (IL)
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Served Southern Illinois since 1981 (currently serving Randolph, St Clair, Clinton and Madison Counties)
- Serves Baldwin, eastern half of Belleville, Cahokia Heights, Carlyle, Chester, East Carondelet, East St. Louis, Fairview Heights, Freeburg, Lebanon, Marissa, Prairie Du Rocher, Red Bud, Sauget, Shiloh (unincorporated area), Sparta, Steeleville, Swansea, Washington Park (Largest service in the MetroEast - operates 31 rigs in 3 counties)
- Mutual Aid with/for - Abbott EMS, Dupo EMS, Mascoutah EMS, Millstadt EMS, Monroe Co EMS, OFallon EMS, and other agencies
- Ambulances/Units: (Plates: 4 837 xx 05,11,15,24) BLS 64, 65, 101 ALS 34,68,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77*,78,79 (St. Clair County units)
- not heard some are back-up vehicles Medivan Units: 43, 4447, 455, 4474 ?? Other units: 101 Utility van (used by janitor)
Internationally Accredited and Illinois licensed Emergency Medical Dispatch Center, integrated with Randolph County Next Generation 911 to provide all Emergency Medical Dispatch instruction as well as providing this to all areas they service.
Bases MAP
- Sparta (Randolph)
- ALS 4G25-main, 4G24-main, 4G21-backup Red Bud ALS 4G18-main, 4G26-backup
- Red Bud (Randolph)
- Chester (Randolph) ALS 4G20-main, 4G16-backup
- Steeleville (Randolph)
- Swansea (St Clair) ALS, 1209 N. Illinois Street
- Belleville (St Clair) ALS, 610 East Main Street:
- 4c73 "73"
- 4c74 "74"
- 4c75 "75"
- 4c76 "76"
- Cahokia Heights (St Clair) ALS (Formerly Braun Ambulance Service) Primary service area = Cahokia Heights, East Carondelet, Sauget
- 4c78 "78"
- East St Louis (St Clair)
- Fairview Heights (St Clair) ALS
- Freeburg (St Clair) ALS (Located at Freeburg VFD)
- Lebanon (St Clair)
- 4c68 "68"
- SAFB (St. Clair)
- Washington Park (St Clair)
- Madison (City in Madison County)
- Carlyle (Clinton)
Advanced Life Support
- Notes: Operate 3 - 24 hour ALS trucks with one in Chester, Red Bud, and Sparta along with a 12 hour BLS truck in Steeleville which is a call out truck at night. The Steeleville base can turn into an ALS truck during the day and also a BLS backup for the nights. The three ALS bases also have a backup ALS truck that can be staffed at busy times or mass causality situations.
Basic Life Support
- "100" series trucks - BLS & Transfers only
- 4c101 "101"
- 4c104 "104"
Supervisors
- 4c69 "69" - Roaming Supervisor
Communications
- For 450W ERP repeaters on 462.95, 467.975 with 40-100W mobiles; located at Carlyle Lake (NFM) Issued 7/24 WSDS830
- Dispatch can monitor St Clair County Fire Common 1 (and possibly some other talkgroups, please advise if you know
Pager Tones/Tone-Outs
- Heard on 938.975 (2/21)
- 745.7
- 831.7
- 992.6
- 1037.0
- 1183.1
- 1377.8
- 1380.8
- 2185.5
- 2197.5 long tone
- 2268.3
- 2496.1
- 2822.0
Codes / Terms
- Fire Standby -
- Run to make - (Stupid statement for) A new call.
- Zeros "Zeroing" out mileage for the next/current trip.
- 10-1000 ???? (said by dispatch to the unit)
Communications
STARCOM21
(Additional sites are in normal use, will be added later 6/26)
| Site | Name | Freqs | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 049 (31) | Sparta | 852.325000 | 852.850000c | 853.375000c | 859.212500 |
| Site | Name | Freqs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 033 (21) | Evansville | 851.412500a | 851.937500c | 853.875000a | 855.367500 | 856.212500 |
| DEC | HEX | Mode | Alpha Tag | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7252 | 1c54 | D | MedStarMutualAid | Mutual Aid |
| 8906 | 22ca | D | MedStar Ops 8906 | Operations 8906 |
| 8907 | 22cb | D | MedStar Ops 8907 | Operations 8907 |
| 8908 | 22cc | D | MedStar Ops 8908 | Operations 8908 |
| 8909 | 22cd | D | MedStar Ops 8909 | Operations 8909 |
| 8910 | 22ce | D | MedStar Ops 8910 | Operations 8910 |
| 8911 | 22cf | D | MedStar Ops 8911 | Operations / Events 8911 |
| 8912 | 22d0 | D | MedStar BMHE PR | Patient Reports-to-Belleville Memorial East |
| 8913 | 22d1 | D | MedStar BMH PR | Patient Reports-to-Belleville Memorial |
| 8914 | 22d2 | D | MedStar SEH PR | Patient Reports-to-St Elizabeths (O'Fallon) |
| 8915 | 22d3 | D | MedStar Ops 8915 | Operations 8915 |
| 8916 | 22d4 | T | MedStar St Clair | Dispatch - St Clair County |
| 8917 | 22d5 | D | MedStar Randolph | Dispatch - Randolph County |
| 8918 | 22d6 | D | MedStar Clinton | Dispatch - Clinton County (often patched to Clinton Fire Ops) |
| 8919 | 22d7 | D | MedStar CarToCar | EMS: Car-to-Car |
| 8920 | 22d8 | D | MedStar Event 1 | Event 1 |
| 8921 | 22d9 | D | MedStar Event 2 | Event 2 |
| 8922 | 22da | T | MedStar Ops8922E | Operations 8922E |
| 8923 | 22db | D | MedStar EmergBtn | Emergency Button Activation |
| 8924 | 22dc | D | MedStar TRH PR | Patient Reports-to-Touchette Regional |
They are equipped with the Illinois Starcom21 Radio Communications system, capable of Statewide coverage for everyday use and to enhance their disaster preparedness response wherever we may be summoned to assist throughout the state.
Their fleet of GPS Tracked Emergency Medical Service Vehicles integrated into their Computer Aided Dispatch provides their Emergency Medical Dispatchers a complete view of all Emergency Medical Service vehicles to better serve the public with the closest Emergency Medical Service vehicle to meet their needs.
Former 900 MHz (No longer in use)
- 938.975 D074 Local Repeater (in use Fairview Heights 11/19/17)
- 939.075 D026 WQEG97 M EMS: Unit-to-Unit
- 936.00 897.00 WPXG657 RM 074 DPL EMS: Dispatch - Local (Carlyle) FM
Former/Unidentified Frequencies
- These were previously listed on the statewide page
- 462.95 467.950 WPAZ773 RM ALS/BLS Ops (Carlyle-Clinton Co) FMN
- 462.975 467.975 WPEC738 RM ALS/BLS Ops (Carlyle-Clinton Co) FMN
155.22 KNBN596 BM EMS: Dispatch (Sparta-Randolph) FMN