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Unit Numbering

La Crosse County, WI Unit Numbering System

1xx     County Sheriff, Dive Rescue
14x     Detectives

2xx     La Crosse City Police [Trunked Radio System]
211-218 First shift beat cars
221-228 Second shift beat cars
231-238 Third shift beat cars
24x     School Liasion?, other special details
25x     Traffic/grant cars, other special details
26x     "Cadets" (Civilian Service Employees) - parking, errand runners
27x     Detectives
280-299 Detectives, high ranking PD

3xx     Onalaska City and Township
301-349 City Police
350-384 City Fire
385-389 Brice Prairie First Responders
390s    Technically BPFR but Onalaska Police Reserves have used these

4xx     Shelby Township 
429,431 PD Officers
450-469 Fire and First Responders

5xx     Wisconsin State Patrol Post 5

Note: 5xx numbers are not used in the county plan for interoperability reasons. There
are 5xxx units as well (inspectors).  Routine State Patrol activities are conducted
on their own radio system but troopers do monitor county radio systems and work
primarily on Sheriff-1 through La Crosse County EDC sometimes when working major
incidents with multiple agencies responding. (DNR conservation officers also monitor
and answer calls from La Crosse County on Sheriff-1.)

6xx     West Salem Village
601-649 Police
650-669 Fire
670-699 First Responders - individual team members have their own numbers

7xx     Holmen Village

800     Bangor

900     Campbell Township (French Island)

1100    Farmington Township

1300    University of Wisconsin - La Crosse PD

1900    County Service Processors

4100    County Emergency Management except as noted (particularly City and County of
        La Crosse 100s and 200s)
  • x01-x49 are Police. Certain agencies assign numbers to individual officers (Onalaska, Sheriff, Shelby); others may use numbers based on vehicles.
  • x50s tend to be assigned to specific people in Fire Departments.
  • x60s are Fire Base stations.
  • x61-x69 tend to be used for specific fire apparatus.

Separation of services explains some of the numbering. For example, West Salem Fire and First Responders are completely separate entities. Brice Prairie First Responders serve an area of Onalaska Township covered in part by Onalaska City Fire and in part by Holmen Fire, and are distinct from either fire service. The numbering (and paging) reflects this. Shelby, on the other hand, is a combined service. La Crosse Fire seems to have completely eliminated use of the old numbering, using designations like "Engine 1," "Quint 1," "Heavy Rescue," etc. They had called the Station 1 base "Fire Base 60" until relatively recently (maybe still?), an historical reference to the old numbering system still used throughout the rest of La Crosse County.