The map at left is the Georgia Forestry Fire Danger Rating Map for April 16, 2007. To put it simply, green is good and purple is bad. It is obvious that the Savannah area is in a bad way. You can check the fire danger rating throughout the state with this map; it is updated daily here.
Firefighters and Forestry Workers in Effingham County fought three different fires today; one in the area of the County Landfill, one north of Springfield, and one in the Hodgeville Road area. Based on monitoring, they were problematic due to the very high winds in the area today. Similar to the fires of last week, a Georgia Forestry aircraft was fire spotting for the ground crews and personnel from other departments were called to assist. As near as I could tell, the Pooler and Bloomingdale Fire Departments sent apparatus and personnel for the Landfill area fire and Newington may have sent some for the fire north of Springfield.
I didn't have the chance to monitor these fires as in depth as I did the one in Chatham County last week, but this fire was an opportunity to discover and identify some new talkgroups on the Chatham-Effingham Trunked Repeater System.
Conventional Frequencies
155.355 - Effingham Fire/EMS Dispatch
155.115 - Effingham North Fire Repeater
159.390 - Georgia Forestry Mobile-to-Mobile
Chatham-Effingham TRS
17200 - Effingham Fire/Rescue Admin 2
26456 - Effingham Fire Dispatch
26488 - Effingham EMS Dispatch
25104 - Effingham Fire/Rescue Fireground 1
25136 - Effingham Fire/Rescue Fireground 2
25168 - Effingham Fire/Rescue Fireground 3
25200 - Effingham Fire/Rescue Admin 1
25904 - Rincon FD
26064 - Guyton FD
26512 - Effingham County Incident 1
26544 - Effingham County Incident 2
26576 - Effingham County Incident 3
Mac McCormick, KF4LMT
