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MABAS Division 56

Montgomery County Webpage

  • The 10 Montgomery County Fire Departments, 5 Ambulance Services, Montgomery County EMA, Carlinville and Gillespie Fire are part of the Mutual Aid Box Alarm System (MABAS) Division 56. MABAS is a statewide organization of over 550 agencies that have the capability to work together when a disaster strikes. Many members of MABAS Division 56 have specialized equipment, as seen above, that any other member of MABAS 56 can call upon for assistance during incidents or disasters.

Montgomery County 911 / ETSB

  • Established Oct 1995; receives about 20,000 calls a year
  • Dispatches for EMA, MABAS Division 56, Haz-Mat and Dive Team.
  • Dispatches for Litchfield Police except Mon-Fri 0800-1600
  • Shoal Creek also dispatched direct on 154.13 162.2 PL by Bond County 911.
  • Weekly Test Page on Monday nights at 7:30pm for all departments (Back-up PSAP at Taylorville/Christian County 911) (mutiple freqs/tones)
  • Departments use the "I Am Responding" phone app
  • 6/22 - The county is going to purchase a VHF simulcast for 911 using ARPA funds ($345,000)
  • 7/22 - New FCC License modification to current Fire Frequencies, adding NXDN/DMR/P25 emissions WQFE421

Dispatches agencies: Coffeen Fire, Farmersville Fire/Ambulance, Fillmore Fire, Hillsboro Fire/Ambulance, Irving Fire, Litchfield Fire/EMS, Nokomis-Witt Ambulance, Nokomis Fire, Raymond-Harvel Fire (2 page tone sets), Raymond-Harvel Ambulance, Shoal Creek Fire & Rescue, Witt Fire, 911 and EMA Coordinator, HAZMAT Team, Hazmat Tone NE, Hazmat Tone SE, Hazmat Tone SE (heard rebroadcast on 154.13 162.2 PL)

Uses Fireground Blue for Water Operations

  • 154.325 D047 for Northwest Depts; D023 for Northeast Depts; D223 for Southeast Depts. (1/13)
  • 154.325 D047 heard paging Raymond-Harvel Fire (with DTMF tail, via phone?) (also on 225.7?) (8/13)

Reported that departments use their local repeater (Chris Coss) that feeds into (simulcasts on) the 151.46 Rptr. 911 still simulcasts 151.4 R pages/dispatches locally on 154.325 (which some pagers are still on).

  • WRMC646 - License for 155.055 IREACH

Chris Coss Frequencies

WQDM689 -- 90.35 DISPATCH FOR COMMUINCATIONS COMPANY AND TACTICAL USE BY LOCAL EMERGENCY SERVICES WQFE421 -- 90.35 RADIO COMMUNICATION USE BY ELIGIBLES.

  • 140 N. MAIN STREET - HILLSBORO
  • CLEVELAND & MAIN STREETS - PANAMA
  • 502 S. SHERMAN - LITCHFIELD
  • 159.7125 151.8575 WQFE421 RM 162 DPL *heard 10/14/06 - Appears to be a simulcast of 154.325/151.4600 was Paging Shoal Creek Fire
  • SOUTH EAST & NOBBE STREETS - FARMERSVILLE
  • CAPPS & MILLER STREETS - NOKOMIS POPLAR & W. RAILROAD STREETS - FILLMORE

Greg Nimmo Frequencies

4/06 Most bases are located at or near a fire department. PRIVATE BUS DISPATCH RADIOS WILL BE USED TO COORDINATE DAILY BUS DISPATCHING ACTIVITIES AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS

  • 140 N MAIN ST HILLSBORO, IL
  • CORNER OF CLEVELAND AND MAIN ST PANAMA
  • 502 S SHERMAN LITCHFIELD
  • CORNER OF S EAST AND NOBBE FARMERSVILLE
  • CORNER OF CAPPS AND MILLER NOKOMIS
  • CORNER OF POPLAR AND W RAILROAD FILMORE

Montgomery County Sheriff

Sheriff Website

  • Sheriff Units: 68-xx
  • 68-91 (1/21)
  • 173.25 100.0 (heard in Litchfield, both sides of conversation of Sheriff repeater 2/14, 4/14) (hrd Farmersville 5/15)
  • Summer 2022 - Transitioned to new P25 radio system. All sheriff/police in the county can now talk to each other.

2022 Sheriff/Rural Law P25 System (assumed that 10xx are mobile units and 11xx are portables)

  • 1000 Dispatch?
  • 1004
  • 1013
  • 1104
  • 1113

Municipalities and Districts

Townships and Water Districts

Bois D'Arc Township

  • Road Ops on 159.4575 Base/Mobile (NFM at Farmersville) possibly 103.5PL hrd 2015) WQQN324

Coffeen (City)

  • 155.415 Base/Mobiles City Operations (162.2?) [Expired] FMN Multi-Dispatch KNEZ869
  • 155.805 Base/Mobiles Public Works [Expired] FMN Public Works WPIS436

Coffeen Fire Protection District

Donnellson

  • Fire provided by Shoal Creek FPD

Farmersville

  • - 159.96 Base/Mobile, assumed for Water Department operations (NFM) WQSI931
  • 173.39 91.5 PL also heard in use (Musical Notes) (12/13)

Farmersville-Waggoner Fire Department / Ambulance

  • Reported that Rural Towns pages repeat off the tower at Farmersville

Fillmore (Village)

  • 2022 App 0010256941 for Water Data - 451.6125 FXO [1]

Fillmore Community Fire Protection District

  • Coverage area includes parts of Fayette County.
  • EMS provided by Hillsboro Ambulance.

Hillsboro (City)

Website Facebook Police

  • Former: 155.085R (153.8375) WPYY616 RM 210.7 PL (Voice Inversion capable) (change to D351 2018)
  • 154.445 - Fire: Paging/Dispatch (rpts 154.325 D023, then rpts on 154.325 CSQ) 6pm Test Page (pages on 151.45 1/18)

Hillsboro Area Ambulance Service Facebook page

  • Responds to: Hillsboro, Fillmore

Irving (City?)

  • Police provided by Sheriff, Hillsboro; EMS provided by Hillsboro Ambulance

Irving Volunteer Fire Department

  • 154.175 Base/Mobile Fireground [Expired 9/13] WNMQ811

Litchfield (City)

Litchfield Police Department

  • Dispatched locally Mon-Fri 0800-1600, by county the remaining time
  • Transitioned to a new P25 system Summer 2022 after being on a DMR Tier 3 system for a short time

Tier 3 RIDs

  • 4 - Dispatcher
  • 213 "213"
  • 397
  • 649

Litchfield Fire Department

  • Staff of 10 paid, 37 volunteer protecting 10,000 people in 33 sq miles out of 2 stations.
  • Member of MABAS 56 and the 3M Firemen's Association Litchfield,
  • May request Mutual Aid from Mt. Olive Fire/EMS for areas around I-55. Also may contact Mac911 on 154.7475R for info or assistance
  • 154.37 also licensed on KCN968 (but not known to be in use)

Mount Olive

Mount Olive Fire Protection District

  • Serves a small portion of I-55 and land in Montgomery County, mostly in Macoupin County.

Nokomis

Nokomis Fire

  • Responds to Coaltan

Nokomis-Witt Area Ambulance Service

  • Coverage area: Nokomis, Witt, Ohlman
  • 155.205 BM NokomisWitt EMS EMS: Local [Expired 6/14] WPFA581

Panama

Shoal Creek Fire and Rescue (Panama)

  • Serves: Panama, Donnellson

Raymond

  • 154.995 CSQ, Montgomery Co 911 paging Raymond Harvel Fire/Ambulance for 10-50 (12/16/13)

Taylor Springs

Taylor Springs Volunteer Fire Department

Witt

  • 30wt FX 451.8375 for Water Department data WQVJ571

Witt Volunteer Fire Department

School Districts

Regional Office of Education #3

  • Website
  • Serving Bond, Christian, Effingham, Fayette, and Montgomery Counties

Hillsboro Community Unit School District 3

  • Website Facebook page
  • Serving Hillsboro, Butler, Taylor Springs, Donnellson, Coffee, Witt District Map
  • 11/8/22 - approved a $13M bond issue for a capital project at Hillsboro High School. Another $10 million from other available resources will be included to fund a $23 million building project. The project will replace the 102-year-old main building at Hillsboro High School with a new structure that will connect the existing Gym Building, Cafeteria Building, and Ag. Building, resulting in a single building with one central, controlled main entrance. 65,000 square feet of new construction.

Litchfield Community Unit School District 12

Nokomis Unit School District #22

Website Facebook

  • Serving Nokomis, Wenonah, Fillmore, Coalton District Map
  • OLD Expired (155.175 WXT623 BM 203.5 PL Nok School Bus Buses FMN Schools

Panhandle Community Unit School District 2 (Raymond)

Website Facebook page

  • Serves the communities of Raymond, Harvel, Waggoner and Farmersville District Map
  • 155.235 D503 heard in use btwn Raymond and Rochester, unknown ops. (3/13)

Maps and Images

Montgomery County Townships Map

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Montgomery County Pager Tones

Agency (Updated)
Tone A
Tone B
NW/SE/SW/NE All County 634.5 / 707.3
NW/SE/SW/NE Hazmat 433.7 / 539.0
EMA 349.0 / 669.9
Coffeen Fire 349.0 / 410.8
Farmerville-Waggoner Ambulance 339.6 long
Farmerville-Waggoner Fire 312.7 / 339.6
Filmore Ambulance
Filmore Fire 524.8 / 602.6 QCI
Filmore Fire 667.5 / 712.5
Hillsboro Ambulance (2018) 746.8 600.9
Hillsboro Fire 600.9 / 634.5
Irving Fire 330.5 / 433.7
Litchfield Fire/EMS long 645.7
Litchfield Fire (2018) 524.6 879.0
Litchfield Fire 346.7 / 881.0
Nokomis-Witt Ambulance 778.5 / 746.8
Nokomis Fire 458.57? / 389.13?
Raymond/Harvel Ambulance long 539.0
Raymond-Harvel Fire (too?) very long 539.0
Raymond Harvel Fire 634.5 / 832.5
Raymond Harvel Fire 832.5 / 634.5
Shoal Creek First Responders long 389.0
Shoal Creek Fire Department 483.5 / 389.0
Taylor Springs Fire (2018) 634.5 600.9
Witt Fire 553.9 / 584.8

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