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*So its quite possible that digital is dead out here after all. That or they are waiting for funding to do a major overhaul to make it workable which supposedly due to terrain and not enough tower sites it is not possible to do.  
 
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Codes/Units/Station Lists

Alleghany County Fire & EMS Stations

  • Alleghany County dispatches on 39.500 as well as 800 and uses multiple PL tones and sometimes none. The PL code listed of 110.9 is only one of several in use depending on location and units plus the situation in the field.

Company 1 - Iron Gate

Company 1 provides a First Responder service.

  • Wagon 1
  • Engine 1
  • Tanker 1
  • Truck 1
  • Iron Gate now has their own Rescue Squad which covers East End including backing up Rescue 1's areas.

Company 2/Rescue 1 - Clifton Forge

Rescue 1 covers calls in Clifton Forge, Iron Gate, Selma, Sharon, and Valley Ridge area. Rescue 1 covers all areas east of about the 17 MM on I-64

  • Ladder 2
  • Truck 20
  • Truck 21
  • Engine 24
  • Engine 25
  • Crash 14
  • Ambulance 15
  • Ambulance 16
  • Ambulance 17
  • Support 1
  • Response 1

Station 3 - Covington

Covington has two fire stations.

  • Utility 20
  • Engine 21
  • Engine 22
  • Engine 23
  • Truck 24
  • Engine 26
  • Command 1
  • Command 2
  • Command 3
  • Car 34
  • Ambulance 35
  • Ambulance 36
  • Ambulance 37
  • Crash 39

Station 4 - MeadWestvaco

Station 4 primarily covers the MeadWestvaco paper mill, but also provides backup to Covington and the surrounding area.

Station 5 - Boiling Springs

Station 6 - Dunlap

Dunlap has two fire stations.

  • Engine 6
  • Pumper 6
  • Squad 6
  • Brush 6
  • Utility 61
  • Ambulance 62
  • Brush 63
  • Tanker 64
  • Ambulance 65
  • Ambulance 67
  • Tanker 68

Station 7 - Falling Spring

  • Pumper 7
  • Tanker 7
  • Squad 7
  • Rescue 74

Company 8 - Sharon

Sharon has two fire stations. Company 8 provides a First Responder service.

  • Tanker 8
  • Engine 80
  • Attack 81
  • Engine 82
  • Brush 83
  • Engine 84
  • Utility 85
  • Rescue 87
  • Support 8

Company 9 - Selma

  • Brush 9
  • Engine 90
  • Engine 91
  • Utility 92
  • Engine 93
  • HazMat 94
  • Station 9 has added an EMS element to their station. Referred to as EMS 9. Unsure as to nature of or type of rescue equipment or personnel.

Alleghany County Sheriff Information

Alleghany County Sheriff, City of Covington and Clifton Forge have switched over to an advanced rolling code encryption on a Digital Nexedge system. They use their old analog frequencies for this system.

  • ALL AGENCIES ARE OFF DIGITAL SYSTEM INDEFINITELY. SEE BELOW.
  • The full switchover occurred on November 15th 2011
  • New radios have been provided to at least some VSP units that I would imagine would be those who work in the area regularly as well as at least some if not all fire/rescue units.
  • As noted in original info on here where they turned on the digital system on 11/15 and it promptly crashed on 11/18 staying down until 11/28 it has continued to repeatedly crash. It is down more than it has been up and it currently is down again today on 1/11 and has been for over a week with the exception of 1630 yesterday to sometime before 1500 today when they went back to and are still on analog tonight.
  • The system allows them to revert to analog at any time should they so desire or in case of a digital system failure as well as communications with other agencies who do not have the new radios. They can go back and forth as they like from analog to digital encryption.
  • This system because of the Rolling Code Encryption is completely unmonitorable
  • COVINGTON PD has completely dropped use of this digital system some time back and has no plans to return to it. They don't like it at all. They are back on their old analog frequencies.
  • Alleghany County has not used the digital system in quite some time now and from everything I've heard has no plans in the near future to return to it either. Dispatch has repeatedly told any units who get on digital to return to analog and also have said numerous times that they would be staying on analog and not returning to digital.
  • So its quite possible that digital is dead out here after all. That or they are waiting for funding to do a major overhaul to make it workable which supposedly due to terrain and not enough tower sites it is not possible to do.