Difference between revisions of "Baldwin County (AL)"

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General Information

Baldwin County is the largest county in Alabama and is roughly the size of Rhode Island. It has a diverse geography extending from the beach on the Gulf of Mexico to coastal plain and farmland to timber country in the north. Much of the area is rural - serviced by volunteer fire departments, the Baldwin County Sheriff's Office, and small police departments. Notable exceptions are the popular vacation destinations of Gulf Shores, Orange Beach, and Foley whose communities support well-funded, staffed, and equipped police and fire departments. The Eastern Shore cities of Spanish Fort, Daphne, and Fairhope also support robust police and fire departments. And, the county seat of Bay Minette has full-time police and fire departments. Emergency Medical Services are privately contracted through MedStar with the exception of Orange Beach which operates their own fire department EMS units.

Public Safety departments in Baldwin County operate on one or more of the following three radio systems:

Alabama Interoperable Radio System (AIRS)
Bay Minette, Daphne, Foley, Robertsdale (NXDN)
Baldwin County (VHF radios)

The Radio Reference Database serves as the most up-to-date source of radio systems and frequency usage in Baldwin County and should be consulted regularly to ensure accuracy. The purpose of this page is to assist readers with a better understanding of what is being heard on their scanner.

All fire departments in Baldwin County are dispatched from the 911 Center in Robertsdale regardless of their radio system and there is a great deal of multicasting so it is common to hear calls across all three systems. Depending on the department and the nature of the call, dispatching may be heard on a single talkgroup, multiple talkgroups, or one or more of the five geographic channels (North, East, South, West, or Central). Calls may include fire departments, emergency medical services, and lifeguards as well as coordination with medical helicopters.

A dispatched call will include the following:

Station (fire department or MedStar unit)
District (subsection of the fire department area if applicable)
Zone (fire department station where the response is needed)
Nature of the call
Address

The list below provides the fire department station identifiers.

Fire Department Station Identifiers

Station	Department
20	Gulf Shores
21	Orange Beach
22	Oyster Bay
24	Bon Secour
28	Fort Morgan
30	Foley
31	Elberta
33	Josephine
34	Magnolia Springs
35	Perdido Beach
37	Lillian
38	Barnwell
40	Summerdale
44	Fish River / Marlow
50	Robertsdale
52	Silverhill
53	Elsanor
57	Seminole
58	Fairhope
60	Loxley
63	Ronsinton
64	Belforest
65	Styx River
66	Daphne
67	Gateswood
68	Spanish Fort
70	Bay Minette
71	Pine Grove
72	Stapleton
74	Whitehouse Forks
78	Crossroads
80	Rabun
85	Perdido
88	Stockton
90	Tensaw
91	Lottie
97	Little River

--Sadave 09:10, 2 August 2018 (CDT)

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 *[[Bay Minette, Daphne, Foley, Robertsdale]]
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