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General Information

As of 5/17/2023, The County Fire will be switching to Full MSWIN System soon, and all radio traffic will be on MSWIN. The Analog system will still be in use for Paging and for a backup system

Indianola PD and FD will still be using their NXDN Digital system until further notice

Inverness PD, Moorhead PD, and Sunflower PD are on the same MSWIN talk groups as the Sunflower County SO. Drew PD is on the same talk groups as Ruleville PD.

As of 6/18/23, The County Fire has now switched to the full MSWIN system. The conventional system will be used as a backup system

If you have any questions, contact me at SunflowerCountyFireBuff@gmail.com

Fire/EMR/EMA

Fire Districts

  • District 1 Indianola FD & VFD
  • District 2 Inverness VFD
  • District 3 Moorhead VFD
  • District 4 Sunflower VFD
  • District 6 Ruleville VFD
  • District 7 Drew VFD
  • District 8 Parchman VFD
  • District 9 Linn, Steiner, Roundaway VFD

Fire Task Forces

Fire Task Forces are primarily manpower pools. The current manpower pools are drawn from firefighters and emergency medical responders who are dual-rostered as Emergency Management volunteers. Consideration is being given to developing a standardized apparatus response model to go with the Task Forces.

  • South Task Force - Districts 1 through 4
  • North Task Force - Districts 6 through 9

Sunflower County Emergency Medical Response

Emergency Medical Response crews utilize Company callsigns, although they are not uniformly used. EMR/Rescue callsigns track their FD District numbering. Sunflower County Emergency Medical Response provides a variety of prehospital trauma and medical response.

  • Rescue 1 - Indianola
  • Rescue 2 - Inverness
  • Rescue 3 - Moorhead
  • Rescue 4 - Sunflower
  • Rescue 6 - Ruleville
  • Rescue 7 - Drew
  • Rescue 9 - Linn-Steiner-Roundaway

District Pager Tone Out

Usage Tone A Tone B
District 1 & Rescue 1 349.0 410.8
District 2 & Rescue 2 349.0 433.7
District 3 & Rescue 3 1062.5 843.7
District 4 & Rescue 4 687.5 906.2
District 6 & Rescue 6 437.5 375.0
District 7 & Rescue 7 687.5 1125.0
District 8 500.0 1062.5
District 9 & Rescue 9 600.9 756.8
Countywide Fire Officers 468.7 437.5
North Task Force 1743.0 1312.5
South Task Force 1312.5 1743.0
Emergency Management 906.2 843.7
County All Call 1500 1125
Indianola FD 650.7 607.5

Call Signs

Countywide Call Signs

  • EM1 - EMA Director/Fire Coordinator
  • EM2 - EMA Deputy Director/Deputy Fire Coordinator
  • EM3 - EMA Deputy Director/Deputy Fire Coordinator
  • EM4 - Training Officer
  • EM5 - Chaplain

Fire District Call Signs

X = District Number

  • x01 - District Fire Chief
  • x02-x03 - District Asst Chief(s)
  • x04-x06 - Captain(s)
  • x07-x09 - Lieutenant(s)
  • x10-x49 - Firefighters
  • x51-x59 - Engines
  • x61-x69 - Tankers
  • x71-x79 - Rescues
  • x81-x89 - Utility
  • x91-x99 - Brush

City of Indianola

Indianola Fire Department

Indianola Fire Department maintains and uses a VHF Kenwood NXDN system. The Indianola Fire Department is a combination department supported by the Indianola Volunteer Fire Department, a non-profit corporation of volunteer firefighters.

Fire Station No. 1 - 201 Main Street

Fire Station No. 2 - 1012 Garrard Rd

Indianola Police Department

Indianola Police Department maintains and uses a VHF Kenwood NXDN system

Codes and Signals

Plain language is used by Fire/Rescue/EMR Aside from the common 10 codes (10-4 for the message received, etc.)

Sunflower SO and the municipal police departments it dispatches primarily use plain language, but some 10 codes are used.

Indianola PD utilizes a different 10-Code system.

Trunked Radio Systems

Public Safety / Services

Business / Utility / Private

Live Audio Feeds

Mailing Lists

Wiki Articles

External Links

Sunflower County Emergency Services Facebook Pages


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