Macoupin County (IL)
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Macoupin County - Information
Macoupin County is one of the largest counties, by area, in the state of Illinois. It also comprises 2 area codes and is perhaps the only county in the United States that has 3 or more LATAs (Telephone Exchange Bounderies). The Enhanced 911 system in the county took over 10 years to get online.
Ambulance Services - IDPH EMS Region 3L
- Dunn's Ambulance of Taylorville has taken over for Carlinville Area Hospital Ambulance Service and serves the Carlinville area. Also provides ALS intecepts from neighboring agencies. (See Carlinville page for more info)
- Prairieland Ambulance of Virden serves Virden, Girard & Nilwood. ALS intercepts units from Auburn and Springfield.
- Northwestern Area Ambulance provides service to the whole NW area of the county.
- Area Ambulance Service provides service to the west central area of the county. (Shipman, Medora, Piasa)
- The Brighton area only served by Alton Memorial Hospital Ambulance.
- Gillespie Benld Ambulance services serves its surrounding area. (Gillespie, Benld, Sawyerville, Wilsonville, Royal Lakes)
- Mt. Olive and Staunton have their own ambulance service. (Staunton also serves portions of Bond and Madison County-New Douglas/Williamson)
- 7/07 UPDATE - Bunker Hill Ambulance recently stopped operating. Currently served by *Alton Memorial Hospital Ambulance from Bethalto area.
- Most parts of the Brighton area, and north of town are covered by Alton Memorial Hospital Ambulance (Madison County)
Fire Departments
- Parts of areas west of Medora are covered by Greenfield Fire (Green County)
- A very small part of the area east of Staunton is covered by New Douglas Fire (Madison County)
- Parts of the area east of Gillespie on IL-16 is covered by Litchfield Ambulance (Montgomery County)
- Parts of the area north/east of Mt Olive around I-55 is coverd by Litchfield Ambulance (Montgomery County)
Macoupin County Unit Numbers
Macoupin County ETSB/911
9/08 --- 158.205 appears to be completely abandoned at this time. All 911 operations are on the 154.7475 narrowband repeater/remote towers. (Reported that: the reason the dispatch channel was changed was because 158.205 frequency was causing interference with another service. 911 Channel 2 became the Dispatch channel and at a future date a new channel frequency will be issued by the FCC which will become 911 Channel 2
Carlinville Tower (911/Sheriff/Local Government/Highway Department repeaters) The repeater has very good coverage (including portables), with remote receive & transmitter sites, into all surrounding counties and into the city of Springfield. This repeater system is a voting system, you may hear multiple responses (on the 46x MHz links) from mobiles on the receiving towers back to the 911 tower to be voted on to go out on 154.7475R.
Paging is done from the repeater site or one of the remote towers nearest the agency they are paging.: D131 Carlinville Fire, Dunns Ambulance [on repeater, not link] D155 PALMYRA - Northwestern Ambulance, Fire & Rescue [on 465.525} D754 BRIGHTON - Brighton Fire [on 458.7875 to 155.715 D703] D??? HETTICK - Scottville-Modesto Fire [on 469.1]
D125 PALMYRA - Not used? D223 VIRDEN - Girard Fire, Prairieland Ambulance, Virden Fire D343 BENLD - Benld Fire, Bunker Hill Fire, Bunker Hill Ambulance, Gillespie-Benld Ambulance, Gillespie Fire, Mt Olive All Call, Mt Olive Ambulance, Mt Olive Fire D413 DORCHESTER - Dorchester Fire, Wilsonville Fire D565 SHIPMAN - Medora Fire, Shipman Ambulance, Shipman Fire D631 STAUNTON - Staunton Ambulance, Staunton Fire
--911 to municipality dispatch is repeater-to-base. --All other dispatching/communications (non-paging) are done via the Carlinville repeater. --Test Page Sunday at 5:30pm of all agencies. --Back-Up dispatch center is now in Jacksonville, Morgan county, although no license adjustments have been made.
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Macoupin County Townships
Mac911 ESN - Emergency Service Number - Provider Coverage
Information for the numbers will come soon.
Macoupin County Public Safety Pager Tones
| Macoupin County ESDA (EMA) | 609.0 / 653.0 (old) | Reach | |
| Benld Fire | 433.7 / 330.5 | QCII | |
| Brighton EMS | 726.8 (long, may be old) | QCII | |
| Brighton Fire | 746.8 / 707.3 | QCII | |
| Bunker Hill Ambulance | |||
| Bunker Hill Fire | 587.7 / ?63.0 (old?) | ||
| Carlinville Ambulance Dunn's Ambulance |
330.5 / 349.0 | QCII | |
| Carlinville Fire | 330.5 / 368.5 (old, current individual page?) | QCII | |
| Carlinville Fire Chief | 349.0 / 368.5 | QCII | |
| Carlinville Fire | long 368.5 (current) | QCII | |
| Carlinville Fire/Ambulance Combo | 368.5 / 330.5 / 349.0 | QCII | |
| Carlinville Sewer | 358.6 / 339.6 | QCII | |
| Carlinville Water | 349.0 / 368.5 | QCII | |
| Dorchester Fire | |||
| Gillespie/Benld Ambulance | 802.5 / 637.5 | GE | |
| Gillespie Fire | |||
| Girard Fire | 1006.9 / 979.9 (may be old) | QCII | |
| Medora Ambulance | 746.8 / 569.1 | QCII | |
| Medora Fire | |||
| Northwestern Fire | |||
| Northwestern Ambulance | |||
| Scottville-Modesto Fire | |||
| Mt Olive Ambulance | ? / 600.9 | QCII | |
| Mt Olive Fire | 410.8 / 330.5 | QCII | |
| Mt Olive All Call | |||
| Prairieland Ambulance | |||
| Virden Ambulance (old) | 569.1 / 669.9 (or 651.9?) | ||
| Shipman Area Ambulance | 496.8 / 524.6 | QCII | |
| Shipman Area Ambulance ? | 746.8 / 569.1 | QCII | |
| Shipman Fire/Rescue | 496.8 / 524.6 | QCII | |
| Staunton Ambulance | 349.0 / 330.5 | QCII | |
| Staunton Fire | 368.5 / 330.5 | QCII | |
| Virden Fire | |||
| Wilsonville Fire | 1092.4 / 1092.4 (not long) | QCII | |
| Community Memorial Hospital-Staunton X-Ray (old 154.025) |
389.0 / 330.5 | QCII |