Quinebaug Valley Region

Quinebaug Valley Emergency Communications Regional 911 and Fire/EMS dispatch center serving much of northeast Connecticut Located on Wescott Rd. in Danielson Connecticut at the CSP Troop D barracks Quinebaug Valley Emergency Communitcations Website Special Thanks to Greg Lynskey (lynskey85) QV has talkgroups on CLMRN. Please see frequencies below for patches.

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Radio Information

Low Band/VHF Paging

• QV members have access to both minitors or alpha pagers
• Also note, Several other regional dispatch centers use 33.8000 179.9 for their dispatching. Depending on your location you may also hear Station WW (Willimantic area), KX (Colchester Area), TN (Tolland County), and more.

Frequency	Type	Tone	Use	Notes	Confirmation/Reconfirmations
33.8000		179.9	QV Dispatch	Tone Dispatch (for Minitors)	2024.03.31 W1KNE
152.0075		CSQ	QV Dispatch	Alpha Page Dispatch	2024.03.31 W1KNE
33.7600	R	179.9	QV Fireground 76	Fireground Operations	2022.05.08 W1KNE
33.9000		179.9	QV Fireground 90	Fireground Operations	2023.04.09 W1KNE
33.8800		179.9	QV EMS 88	EMS Operations	2024.02.25 W1KNE

UHF System

• UHF Plan is same for north and south, except that channels 4 and 11 are inverted from the below list on the Center, South, Southwest Zone.

Frequency	Type	Tone	Channel Number-Use	Notes	Confirmation/Reconfirmations
453.3750	R	123.0	01-UHF 453 North	Northern Simulcast (Patched to CLMRN TG:8751)	2024.01.21 W1KNE
460.6000	R	192.8	02-UHF 460 South	Southern Simulcast (Patched to CLMRN TG:8752)	2024.01.21 W1KNE
453.4625	R	118.8	03-Killingly Cross Band		2024.01.07 W1KNE
453.5875	R	151.4	04-Hampton Cross Band	CH 11 on C, S, SW Zone	2022.07.09 ecps92
452.1875	S	103.5	05-TAC 05
458.4125	S	179.9	06-TAC 06
465.5875	S	179.9	07-TAC 07	Fire Police
458.1125	S	179.9	08-TAC 08
458.1375	S	179.9	09-TAC 09
453.3375	R	179.9	10-Plainfield Simulcat
463.1875	R	118.8	11-Griswold Cross Band	CH 04 on C, S, SW Zone	2024.01.21 W1KNE
453.5375	R	151.4	12-Buckley Hill (Thompson), CT
453.7500	R	179.9	13-Colchester Simulcast		2020.04.23 RIBBN92
463.3750	R	151.4	14-Pumpkin Hill (Mystic), CT	N, NW, W Zone Only
453.7875	R	151.4	14-Salem Cross Band	C, S, SW Zone Only	2020.04.23 RIBBN92
453.2375	S	Varies1	15-TAC 15
458.2375	S	CSQ	16-Vehicles Cross Band		2024.01.21 W1KNE
453.3750	R	192.8	Repeats Low Band Operations	Unknown Location	2018.07.14 W1KNE

TAC 15 PL tones

Department	Tone
RIT	D125
Quinebaug Fire	218.1
Community Fire	110.9
West Thompson Fire	79.7
East Thompson Fire	67.0
Muddy Brook Fire	74.4
Thompson Hill Fire	97.4

Member Departments

Mortlake Department is the only QV department that has two active Stations. They are known as Station 190 and Station 290. Emergency Services in Putnam are dispatched by Station WA which is Putnam Police Dispatch. Station WA also handles 911 calls from the Putnam Special Services District, a 3.5 square mile region in the downtown of Putnam. All other 911 calls are handled by QV.

• Here are the Fire/EMS companies covered by and dispatched by QV, with the town they serve in and station designators:

Department	Town Served	Station ID's
Attawaugan Fire Department	Killingly	62
Atwood Hose Fire Company	Plainfield	96
Baltic Fire Department	Baltic	24
Bungay Fire Brigade	S Woodstock	77
Canterbury Fire Department	Canterbury	93
Central Village Fire Company	Plainfield	97
Chaplain Fire Department	Chaplin	09
Community Fire Company	North Grosvenordale, Thompson	81
Danielson Fire Department	Killingly	61
Dayville Fire Company	Killingly	63
East Brooklyn Fire Department	Brooklyn	92
East Killingly Fire Department	Killingly	64
East Putnam Fire Department	Putnam	79
East Thompson Fire Department	Thompson	85
Eastford Fire Department	Eastford	71
Griswold Fire Department	Griswold	55
Griswold Ambulance	Griswold	55
Hampton Fire Department	Hampton	12
Jewitt City Fire Department	Griswold	56
K-B Ambulance	Killingly, Brooklyn	61
Lisbon Fire Department	Lisbon	54
Moosup Fire Department	Plainfield	94
Moosup-Plainfield Ambulance	Plainfield	94 and 95
Mortlake Fire Department	Brooklyn	90+
Muddy Brook Fire Department	N and E Woodstock	75
Oneco Fire Department	Sterling	68
Plainfield Fire Department	Plainfield	95
Pomfret Fire Department	Pomfret	70
Putnam Fire Department	Putnam	78++
Putnam EMS	Putnam	78++
Quinebaug Fire Department	Quinebaug, Thompson	83
Scotland Fire Department	Scotland	16
South Killingly Fire Department	Killingly	65
Sterling Fire Department	Sterling	67
Thompson Hill Fire Department	Thompson	84
Voluntown Fire Department	Voluntown	53
West Thompson Fire Department	North Grosvenordale, Thompson	82
Williamsville Engine Company	Killingly	60
Woodstock Volunteer Fire Department	Woodstock	76
Woodstock Ambulance	Woodstock	76

Department Apparatus

QV has recently changed from using the pretty much statewide "Codes" for types of calls, apparatus movement, etc and have gone to using strictly plain English as party of ICS compliance. They do, however, still use a standardized Equipment designator. The following info is from the QV website

• Engine: Minimum 750 gpm pump and minimum 300 gallon tank
• Engine-Tanker: minimum 750 gpm pump and minimum 1000 gallon tank
• Hose: Less than 750 gpm pump or no pump and minimum 2000 feet or 4" or greater hose
• Hose-Tender: Minimum 750 gpm pump and minimum 2000 feet of 4" or greater hose
• Tanker: minimum 1000 gpm pump and minimum 1500 gallon tank
• Engine Squirt (EQ): minimum 750 gpm pump, minimum 500 gallon tank, and a telesquirt pre-piped aerial
• Ladder: At least a 65 foot ladder, pump not required
• Tower: At least a 65 foot ladder with platform
• Rescue 1: carries basic medical supplies and hand tools
• Rescue 3: Medical supplies and light rescue tools
• Rescue 4: Medical supplies and full heavy rescue tools and supplies
• Ambulance 5, 6, 7, 8, 9: Ambulance
• Forestry: Restricted to brush use only. Does not respond to any other calls.
• Service: Essentially anything else. A brush unit used to respond to anything other than brush would be a service.

Upon determining what a unit is, it also receives the station designator. For example:

• Rescue 483 is Quinebaug Heavy Rescue
• Rescue 581 is Community Ambulance 1 and Rescue 582 would be community Ambulance 2
• Engine Tank 185 (also ET185) would be Thompson Engine Tank

Even with the designators listed above, if a piece of apparatus goes out of QV, it receives a plain English name per ICS. For example:

• E181 would become Community Engine 1
• R578 would become Putnam Ambulance 1

In general:

• Rescue 1-4 become 'Department' Rescue #
• Rescue 5-9 has become 'Department' Ambulance #
• Engine Tank become 'Department' Engine #

It is up to the department to number their apparatus if they have multiple that would become the same, i.e. E181 and ET181.