Effingham County VHF Fire/EMS Dispatch

Location: Savannah

Effingham County is no longer using the old 155.355 MHz repeater for initial dispatch of Fire/EMS calls. They are now using 158.7675 for initial dispatch. Currently I do not know a CTCSS tone for it, but I will pass it when I find out what it is.

Mac McCormick III, KF4LMT

Effingham County Forest Fires

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

kf4lmt@comcast.net

Chatham-Effingham TRS Talkgroup Updates

Over the last week, I've been able to confirm two more Effingham County talkgroups: Effingham Fire/Rescue Fireground 2 and Guyton FD.

TG 25136 - Effingham Fire/Rescue Fireground 2
TG 26064 - Guyton FD

With 25136 confirmed as Fireground 2 and 25200 as Admin 1, I would feel very safe in considering 25168 as Fireground 3, even though I haven't heard it in use yet. As far as city FDs in Effingham goes, with Rincon on 25904 and Guyton on 26064, Springfield is the only city FD that a city channel hasn't been found for yet.

Mac McCormick, KF4LMT
kf4lmt@comcast.net

New Chatham-Effingham TRS Talkgroups

Over the last few weeks, I've identified some new Chatham-Effingham TRS talkgroups and re-identified a previously known one:

Re-identified:
TG 25200 - Effingham Fire-Rescue ADMIN 1 (previously ID'd as simply ADMIN)

Newly identified:
TG 17200 - Effingham Fire-Rescue ADMIN 2 (Digital)
TG 26512 - Effingham County INCIDENT 1


Mac McCormick, KF4LMT
kf4lmt@comcast.net