Albany County (NY) Fire and Sheriff

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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