New Fire Department Talkgroups to Monitor

There are a couple of new Fire Department talkgroups to listen to on the Chatham-Effingham TRS now. Isle of Hope Fire Department appears to have a department channel and Pooler Fire Department has a new fireground channel.

Isle of Hope FD has been heard on Analog TG 7760. A good time to catch activity on this talkgroup is on Monday nights, which is their drill night (although I haven't heard many callsigns being used). That said, I think I've been hearing Isle of Hope FD using either 7## or 17## numbers for personnel and 7# numbers for their apparatus. If this is the case, it could be a move to fit into the numbering scheme that the westside Fire Departments are using (17## would be a good pick because there is no county Fire Department and Isle of Hope has no police department to base the FD numbers off of). I would love to hear from anyone that catches the callsigns or designators that Isle of Hope FD is using for their personnel and apparatus.

Pooler FD has been using TG 7888 for a fireground channel. I've heard their units switch there for tactical traffic as well as unit-to-unit traffic off of the Dispatch talkgroup 5424.

Mac McCormick, KF4LMT
kf4lmt@comcast.net