Grafton County (NH)

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Grafton County Law Enforcement Agencies & Communications

Law enforcement in Grafton County is primarily covered by three main agencies: Grafton County Sheriff, Upper Valley Regional Communications Center, and Plymouth Police Department. There are a few towns that self-dispatch including Lebanon and Lincoln.

Grafton County Sheriff’s Department

GCSD also operates Twin State Fire Mutual Aid. The following Law Enforcement agencies are dispatched on the County Dispatch channel:

• Grafton County Sheriff (Covers the county and towns without a PD)
• Bath
• Bethlehem
• Easton (Covered by GCSD)
• Franconia
• Haverhill
• Littleton
• Lisbon (Covers Lyman)
• Piermont (Covered by GCSD when PD staff are off)
• Sugar Hill
• Thornton
• Waterville Valley
• Warren
• Wentworth

Unit call signs are their town name followed by their assigned number, but this does vary by agency. For example, the Waterville Valley Chief would be Waterville 1.

Upper Valley Regional Communications Center

UVRCC dispatches several Police, Fire/EMS, and Highway agencies in Grafton County NH, Sullivan County NH, and Orange County VT. The following Law Enforcement agencies are dispatched on the Police Simulcast channel in the Grafton County area of NH:

• Canaan
• Enfield
• Grafton
• Hanover
• Lyme
• Orford

Plymouth Police Department Communications

The following Law Enforcement agencies are dispatched on the Plymouth PD Dispatch channel:

• Ashland
• Bridgewater
• Bristol
• Campton
• Groton
• Hebron
• Holderness
• Plymouth
• Thornton
• Rumney

Self-Dispatching Towns

• Lebanon (Also serves as the backup Dispatch Center for UVRCC)
• Lincoln (Covers Livermore, Woodstock)

Towns Covered By NH State Police

• Benton
• Dorchester
• Ellsworth
• Landaff
• Monroe
• Orange

Alexandria PD and Bristol PD are dispatched by Franklin

Law Enforcement Unit IDs

Code	Description
11##	Ashland Police
12##	Bristol Police
13##	Campton Police
14##	Holderness Police
15##	Plymouth Police
16##	Plymouth State College Police
17##	Rumney Police (Disp by County)
19##	Bridgewater Police
76-X	Alexandria Police
70-X	Bath
41-X	Bristol
74-X	Easton
44-X	Franconia
60-X	Grafton
67-X	Hebron
50-X	Rumney
47-X	Sugar Hill
68-X	Thornton
38-X	Waterville Valley
219-X	Lyme
300-X	Monroe
520-X	Woodstock
700-X	Orford
800	Piermont
1609-X	Bethlehem

Grafton County Fire/EMS Agencies & Communications

Towns in Grafton County are dispatched by three primary communications centers. They are Twin State Fire Mutual Aid, Upper Valley Regional Communications Center, and Lakes Regional Fire Mutual Aid. The City of Lebanon self-dispatches on its own City Fire Alarm & Station Alerting System (Phoenix G2) more commonly known as Lebanon Fire Alarm. TSFMA, UVRCC, and LFA are members of the Upper Valley Regional Emergency Services Association.

Common Apparatus Identifiers

• Ambulance - A unit designed and licensed to transport patients.
• Boat/Marine - A watercraft operated by a member department.
• C - An officer or member, having command authority.
• Car - A vehicle used primarily for transporting personnel, communications equipment, or other equipment used to support fire ground operations.
• Engine - Firefighting apparatus equipped with a fire pump of at least 750 GPM capacity and carrying not less than 500 gallons of water.
• Forestry - A vehicle that is primarily used in grass, brush, or forest fire suppression.
• Ladder - Firefighting apparatus equipped with an aerial ladder, elevating platform, tower, or snorkel.
• Portable - A portable radio.
• Rescue - A vehicle used primarily to transport equipment and/or manpower for the purpose of removal or extrication of victims requiring fire department assistance.
• Tanker - Firefighting apparatus used primarily for hauling water, with or without a fixed fire pump, and carrying more than 1,000 gallons of water.
• Tower - Firefighting apparatus equipped with an elevating platform, tower, or snorkel.
• Utility - Firefighting apparatus not categorized by another letter designation used to provide support services.
• Warden - An individual designated by the state as a Warden, Deputy Warden, or Special Deputy Warden.

Lakes Region Area Radio Identifiers

Lakes Region dispatches the following agencies below on 159.0000MHz - 210.7PL. The agencies in bold are located in Grafton County.

DEPARTMENT NUMBER	DEPARTMENT NAME	TYPE
1	ALTON	FIRE/EMS
2	ASHLAND	FIRE
3	BELMONT	FIRE/EMS
4	BRISTOL	FIRE/EMS
5	CENTER HARBOR	FIRE
6	BARNSTEAD	FIRE
7	FRANKLIN	FIRE/EMS
8	GILFORD	FIRE/EMS
9	GILMANTON	FIRE
10	GROTON	FIRE
11	HILL	FIRE
12	HOLDERNESS	FIRE
13	LACONIA	FIRE/EMS
14	MEREDITH	FIRE/EMS
15	MOULTONBORO	FIRE/EMS
16	NEW DURHAM	FIRE
17	NEW HAMPTON	FIRE
18	PLYMOUTH	FIRE/EMS
19	SANDBORNTON	FIRE/EMS
20	SANDWICH	FIRE
21	TILTON-NORTHFIELD	FIRE/EMS
23	WATERVILLE VALLEY	FIRE/EMS
24	WARREN-WENTWORTH	EMS
25	STRAFFORD	FIRE
30	ALEXANDRIA	FIRE
31	ANDOVER	FIRE/EMS
32	EAST ANDOVER & ANDOVER EMS	FIRE/EMS
34	BRIDGEWATER	FIRE
35	COMPTON-THORNTON	FIRE/EMS
36	DANBURY	FIRE/EMS
37	HEBRON	FIRE
38	RUMNEY	FIRE
40	WARREN	FIRE
42	WENTWORTH	FIRE
44	TWIN RIVERS AMBULANCE	EMS
45	MEREDITH EMS	EMS
49	FARMINGTON	MUTUAL AID FIRE
66	CENTRAL NH HAZ-MAT TEAM	HAZMAT
67	NH FIRE ACADEMY	SCHOOL
99	WOLFEBORO	FIRE

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