Sunflower County (MS)

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General Information

3/12/2024 Indianola Fire Department has started testing paging on the MSWIN system using Sunflower Fire. Plans are fluid at this time.

As of 5/17/2023, The County Fire will be switching to Full MSWIN System soon, and all radio traffic will be on MSWIN. The Analog system will still be in use for Paging and for a backup system

Indianola PD and FD will still be using their NXDN Digital system until further notice

Inverness PD, Moorhead PD, and Sunflower PD are on the same MSWIN talk groups as the Sunflower County SO. Drew PD is on the same talk groups as Ruleville PD.

As of 6/18/23, The County Fire has now switched to the full MSWIN system. The conventional system will be used as a backup system

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Fire/EMR/EMA

Sunflower County fire and emergency services are provided by several fire departments which are largely volunteer companies, emergency medical responders and the county emergency management agency. The county is divided into eight geographic districts for the purpose of fire protection, and that model is carried over into emergency medical response. Many of the county's volunteers fill multiple roles based on the need, whether it be firefighting operations, emergency medical, or roles with the emergency management office when unusual emergencies arise.

Fire and Emergency Services are coordinated by the Emergency Management Director who has the dual responsibility of being the County Fire Coordinator. Two deputy director/coordinators support the operational and planning aspects of countywide efforts, along with a County Training Officer and County Chaplain.

The Fire Coordinator and/or Deputy Coordinators respond on multi-district and Task Force alarms, high hazard occupancy alarms (healthcare, apartments, schools, etc.), highway incidents, hazardous materials incidents, and incidents of greater significance.

Fire Districts

District	Department !
1	Indianola FD & VFD
2	Inverness
3	Moorhead
4	Sunflower
6	Ruleville
7	Drew
8	Parchman
9	Linn-Steiner-Roundaway

Apparatus Table

District	Station	Address	City	Engine	Tanker	Rescue	Brush	County Officer(s)	Other
1	Indianola Station 1	201 Main St	Indianola	E2 E14				EM3 Deputy Coordinator, EM4 Training Chief	sUAS UR41
1	Indianola Station 2	1012 Garrard Ave	Indianola	E1 E151
2	Inverness Fire Station	606 E Grand Ave	Inverness	E251 E252	T261		B271	EM1 Fire Coordinator
3	Moorhead Fire Station	801 Johnny Russell Dr	Moorhead	E351 E352				EM5 Chaplain
4	Sunflower Fire Station	230 Torrey St	Sunflower	E451 E452
6	Ruleville Fire Station	114 S Chester	Ruleville	E651 E652	T661	R671	B691 B692	EM2 Deputy Coordinator
7	Drew Fire Station	275 S Third	Drew	E751 E752
8	Parchman Fire Station	MS State Penitentiary	Parchman	E851
9	LSR Fire Station	800 Hwy 442	Shaw	E951 E952	T961				sUAS UR42

Fire Task Forces

Fire Task Forces were developed in 2023 to provide for a Reinforced Response to fires. Task Force manpower is drawn from firefighters and emergency medical responders who are dual-rostered as Emergency Management volunteers. Selection is made in order of decreasing selection priority are Mississippi Certified Volunteer Firefighter, Level II Volunteer Firefighter, and Level 1 Certified Volunteer Firefighter. Task Force Crew Bosses and Task Force Leaders are selected ad-hoc on each response. Ideally these leaders are Fire Officer I certified at a minimum.

Task Forces are dispatched by request to reinforce individual fire districts at an incident.

Ideally, a Fire Task Force is comprised as follows:

Six to Ten Certified Firefighters, divided into two crews of three to five, each with a Crew Boss
Two Firefighter/EMR's as Safety Crew
Task Force Leader
Two to Three Apparatus for Logistics & Water Supply, with their driver/operator
Tanker added for rural operations

Task Force Divisions:

South Task Force - Districts 1 through 4
North Task Force - Districts 6 through 9

Emergency Medical Response

Emergency Medical Response crews utilize Company callsigns, although they are not uniformly used. EMR/Rescue callsigns track their FD District numbering. Sunflower County Emergency Medical Response provides a variety of prehospital trauma and medical response.

Rescue 1 - Indianola
Rescue 2 - Inverness
Rescue 3 - Moorhead
Rescue 4 - Sunflower
Rescue 6 - Ruleville
Rescue 7 - Drew
Rescue 9 - Linn-Steiner-Roundaway

Unmanned Aerial Systems

Sunflower County Emergency Services operates two Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS), utilizing DJI Mavic 2 Enterprise Dual sUAS. These sUAS are based in District 1 - Indianola and District 9 - Linn-Steiner-Roundaway. Sunflower County Emergency Services has a total of four FAA Part 107 registered sUAS pilots.

The sUAS are Type 4 sUAS, rotorcraft with up to 20 minutes endurance, RGB and Infrared video and imaging capabilities. The sUAS are assigned call signs UR41 and UR42.

District Pager Tone Out

Usage	Tone A	Tone B
District 1 & Rescue 1	349.0	410.8
District 2 & Rescue 2	349.0	433.7
District 3 & Rescue 3	1062.5	843.7
District 4 & Rescue 4	687.5	906.2
District 6 & Rescue 6	437.5	375.0
District 7 & Rescue 7	687.5	1125.0
District 8	500.0	1062.5
District 9 & Rescue 9	600.9	756.8
Countywide Fire Officers	468.7	437.5
North Task Force	1743.0	1312.5
South Task Force	1312.5	1743.0
Emergency Management	906.2	843.7
County All Call	1500	1125
Indianola FD	650.7	607.5

Call Signs

Countywide Emergency Services Call Signs

EM1 - EMA Director/Fire Coordinator
EM2 - EMA Deputy Director/Deputy Fire Coordinator
EM3 - EMA Deputy Director/Deputy Fire Coordinator
EM4 - Division Chief - Training
EM5 - Division Chief - Chaplain

Fire District Call Signs

X = District Number

x01 - District Fire Chief
x02-x03 - District Asst Chief(s)
x04-x06 - Captain(s)
x07-x09 - Lieutenant(s)
x10-x49 - Firefighters
x51-x59 - Engines
x61-x69 - Tankers
x71-x79 - Rescues
x81-x89 - Utility
x91-x99 - Brush Trucks

City of Indianola

Indianola Fire Department

Indianola Fire Department maintains and uses a VHF Kenwood NXDN system. The Indianola Fire Department is a combination department supported by the Indianola Volunteer Fire Department, a non-profit corporation of volunteer firefighters.

Indianola Police Department

Indianola Police Department maintains and uses a VHF Kenwood NXDN system

Codes and Signals

Plain language is used by Fire/Rescue/EMR Aside from the common 10 codes (10-4 for the message received, etc.)

Sunflower SO and the municipal police departments it dispatches primarily use plain language, but some 10 codes are used.

Indianola PD utilizes a different 10-Code system.

Trunked Radio Systems

Public Safety / Services

Mississippi Wireless Integrated Network (MSWIN)

Business / Utility / Private

Live Audio Feeds

Mailing Lists

Wiki Articles

Mississippi State Agencies

External Links

Sunflower County Emergency Services Facebook Pages

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