RED Center

Website - http://www.mabas3.org/red_center.html

RED Center was formed in the 1970's and originally was housed at Niles Station 2 before moving to Glenview in the 1980's and finally to Northbrook a couple years ago. RED Center has added several departments in recent years and continues to add agencies. RED is also MABAS Division 3, and numbering of all Division 3 agencies is based on RED’s system. Division 3’s Back-up is NWCD, conversely RED is the back-up for Division 1.

Rig numbering in Division 3 follows RED's scheme of numbering stations and the rigs are numbered for the station they are housed in. Engine 1 would be from Station 1 etc. Administrative, utility and service vehicles and personnel ID with the first 1 or 2 digits indicating the station (thus the department) and the last 2 digits identifying the individual or vehicle. Chief's for example end in "00", thus 2900 would be Northfield's Fire Chief, 101 would be the Deputy Chief from North Maine.  

RED Center has repeaters at for the North group Winnetka (159.660) and Northbrook (153.215), both using 156.135 as an input, and D031 as a PL code.North Ops is 154.445, PL 127.3

South group operations use repeaters at Des Plaines (155.4375) and Lincolnwood (155.7975) both using 153.8674 as an input with 225.7 Hz. PL. South Ops is 154.355, PL 127.3.