McHenry County (IL)

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• Lake & McHenry Counties - MABAS Division 4 & 5 Website

4/7/08 - From a StarCom21 yahoogroup member: McHenry County Sheriff’s Office and 9 Police Agencies they dispatch for are going to Starcom 21. The fire agencies are staying on there frequency, for many reasons, all of which are good. I can also tell you that the dispatchers are getting trained in next couple of weeks on how to use the system, so I would think that the migration over to Starcom will be pretty soon.

McHenry County

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McHenry County Sheriff's Office

• Dispatches for Police: Bull Valley x49s, Hebron x40s, Holiday Hills x46s, Prairie Grove x31s, Richmond x41s, Spring Grove x54s
• 1/12 FCC Modification to WPTY655, adding 150.995 Mobile Extenders (11K)

McHenry Co Public Safety Units #'s

MCSO uses a 3 digit radio ID. The first digit indicates the shift (1 = Days, 2 = Afternoons, 3 = Midnights)
The second digit (“D”) indicates Patrol and the third indicates the patrol area as listed below. Units with
two areas (like “1/2”) are cover cars.
“David 1” Nunda Township “David 5” Harvard/Alden area
“David 2” Algonquin Township “David 6” Wonder Lake/Greenwood area
“David 3” Woodstock/Huntley area “David 7” Wonder Lake area
“David 4” Marengo/Union area “David 8” McHenry, Spring Grove, Richmond area
Local PD’s dispatched by the SO:
Prairie Grove Hebron Richmond Lakemoor Holiday Hills Bull Valley
Spring Grove Wonder Lake McHenry County Conservation Dist PD.
Unit numbers are formatted:
X-Y-Z (“1-Lakemoor-3”)
X Shift (1, 2, 3) Y Agency Z Patrol Area
501 Sheriff 520-599 Patrol Deputies
502 Under-Sheriff 539,566 K-9 Units
503 Captain of Support Services 601-603 Motorcycle Units
504 Captain of Patrol 670 Training Division Sergeant
505-507 Patrol Lieutenants 690-699 Marine Units
508-519 Patrol Sergeants 700-707 Jail Units
516 Communications Division Sergeant Ida 1-12 Detective Division
Ida 15-16 Evidence Division
“Station Numbers: (Often heard on County and local channels)
01 Algonquin
05 Sheriff
26 Woodstock
27 Crystal Lk Park Dist
29 McHenry City
30 Harvard
31 Prairie Grove
32 Wonder Lake
34 Cary
35 Fox River Grove
36 Lakewood
37 Lakemoor
38 Algonquin
40 Hebron
41 Richmond
42 Island Lake
43 Lake In The Hills
45 Johnsburg
46 Holiday Hills
47 McCullom Lake
48 Marengo
49 Bull Valley
50 Union
54

Harvard Fire Protection District
701 Base Station
702 Chief
703 Deputy Chief
704 Captain
705 Captain
706 Asst. Chief
707 Lt.
708 Lt.
738 Command Vehicle
739 Command Vehicle
741 Engine
747 Rescue Engine
751 Ambulance
752 Ambulance
753 Ambulance
754 Heavy Rescue
761 Utility Vehicle
762 Brush Truck
763 Brush Truck
778 Tanker
779 Tanker
783 Ladder Truck (55')

Law Enforcement
McCullom Lake PD - 147 (not 4100) (1 squad car and it's radio ID and Unit ID is 147) DB McHenry City PD on 159.090..

Hospitals

Centegra Hospital-Huntley

• Future Hospital News Article
• Website

Memorial Medical Center (Woodstock)

• Centegra Health System
• Website

Mercy Harvard Hospital

• formerly Harvard Memorial Hospital?
• Website

Northern Illinois Medical Center (McHenry)

• Centegra Health System
• Website has Heliport

Consolidated Dispatch Centers

Southeast Emergency Communications Center (SEECOMM)

• Crystal Lake Regional Dispatch System Website

• Dispatches for: Algonquin PD, Alith FPD, Cary PD, Crystal Lake PD/FD, Crystal Lake Park PD, Huntley FPD, Lakewood PD, Oakwood Hills PD

• Fire (154.25) - Cary FPD, Fox River Grove FPD, Lakewood FD, Nunda FPD
• Police (857.2375): Cary Police, Oakwood Hills Police
• Police (155.7): Crystal Lake Park District Police, Lakewood Police

The Fox River Grove, Cary, Nunda Rural and Lakewood fire departments hope to update their radio systems.

• 6/9/11 - from the NorthwestHerald
• The project has two parts:
  • The first is a move away from an overcrowded radio frequency. The frequency the departments use now is shared by 15 departments in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin, according to the grant application filed in 2009. There is “constant interference,” and “firefighter safety and accountability is constantly in jeopardy,” the application said. As part of their new system, the departments will use two new “clean frequencies,” Kreher explained. “We were told [by the FCC] there is not a lot of traffic on them in our area.”
  • The second part of the project includes installing new transmitters. The company Chicago Communications will put new equipment up this summer on water towers in Cary, Fox River Grove and Lakewood, Kreher said.

Municipalities and Districts

Woodstock Fire Protection District

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Related Wiki Pages

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