lets post this again - yo ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: agent yo'range <[email protected]> Date: Sat, Feb 28, 2026 at 12:18 AM Subject: 11,000 homes burned in Los Angeles To: usafire <[email protected]>
11,000 homes burned in Los Angeles over 1 year ago lets assume that 11,000 homes are on fire in boston mass mutual aid would come in from all over new england what radio channels would they use? massachusetts has a fire mobilization plan - basically it says that each county will form up task forces of approx 5 units each - each task force will have a leader who talks to MEMA either on 151.145 R or on the MEMA VHF network or via cellphones or maybe via satellite phone or maybe via the state trs 'convoy' / 'travel' radio channels are undefined iirc - but maybe 1 FG channel from each county could be used or the Itacs or the Utacs or VTACs could serve as travel channels no channels are designated as 'air to ground' (a/g) channels afaik - but the fcc has allocated a half dozen channels at 700 mhz for use as a/g channels - unknown if anyone in New England has any of those channels programmed in their radios Most counties have a few radio channels allocated as county wide fireground channels - but many of these are low power simplex channels - and maybe none of them have formal fcc statewide authorizations - some might be used for other purposes across Massachusetts - in fact most are probably not clear statewide so the million dollar question is - what channels will be used for FG ops when all the fire trucks in New England respond to Boston? the VFIRE and the VTAC channels are pretty clear statewide - except for wilmington fd on 154.2875 R ; and hampden county on 154.28 ; and southern worcester county on 154.265 and 154.295 - the UTAC channels should be clear statewide but Topsfield FD uses 453.4625R iirc - the ITAC channels should be clear statewide and the 50 interops channels at 700 mhz are probably clear statewide HOWEVER - there are only 3 or 4 VTAC channels - and there are only 4 UTAC channels - and there are only 5 ITAC channels there is 1 or 2 statewide 800 conventional channels for disaster ops - maybe COMM 1 and COMM 2 there are maybe 20 interops channels on the state TRS - but those are all trunked channels on the trunking repeaters very few of the units have 700 mhz channels afaik - very few have 800 mhz channels bottom line - we are looking at 1,000 fire trucks using 50 radio channels for FG ops - this will not work well - especially with no plan in place lets look at some conflicts - 153.89 - hampshire county FG channel - Brockton FD FG channel 453.75 - plymouth county mutual aid - worcester county mutual aid 453.95 - plymouth county mutual aid - north reading fd 460.10 - D14 FG - UMass Boston 460.6125 - D5 FG - Fitchburg FD tac 487.3875 - D5 FG - Ashland FD input channel 155.805 - Berkshire County FDs interior channel - Uxbridge FD - Amesbury LG 158.805 - Berkshire County FDs south FG channel - Newbury FD input channel - Abington LG 453.1125 - Franklin County FDs Tac 1 - Berlin FG lots of potential conflicts there -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/massfire/CAFXWwKYN1%3DdLghZW69asXc2V0PmztL9BH5-d1pLF-yR_Ca%3DayA%40mail.gmail.com.
