Worcester Regional
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Worcester Trunked Radio System |
P25 Trunk Frequencies
- Modified Worcester License with the P25 frequencies.
- System is part of the larger CoMIRS State P25 system.
- Site 001-0036 - 3 Simulcast Sites.
- NAC D16
- Talkgroups are a mix of Phase 1 and Phase 2
| Frequency | Usage | Notes | Confirmation/ReConfirmations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 858.1375 | CC 1 | Phase 1 | 2016.08.10 ST-Bob |
| 857.2625 | CC 2 and Voice | Phase 1 | 2016.08.10 ST-Bob |
| 856.8375 | CC 3 and Voice | Phase 1 | 2016.08.10 ST-Bob |
| 856.5125 | CC 4 | Phase 1 | |
| 854.1375 | Voice | Phase 1 | |
| 854.2125 | Voice | Phase 1 | |
| 854.4625 | Voice | Phase 2 | 2016.08.10 ST-Bob |
| 855.4875 | ? | ||
| 854.8875 | Voice | Phase 1 | |
| 855.7125 | Voice | Phase 2 | 2016.08.10 ST-Bob |
| 855.7375 | Voice | Phase 1 | 2016.08.10 ST-Bob |
| 855.9625 | Voice | Phase 1 | 2016.08.10 ST-Bob |
| 856.2625 | Voice | Phase 1 | 2016.08.10 ST-Bob |
Talkgroups
Fire Department Talkgroups
- Fire Response and other information can be found at the bottom of the page.
| Talkgroup | Use | Comments | Confirmation/ReConfirmations |
| 4433 | F1 FD Admin | Typically used for companies on-the-air, not responding to incidents | 2016.08.10 WFD |
| 4435 | F2 Fire OPS-A | North End Multi Company Responses - Typically used if Car 3 assigned to the call | 2016.08.10 WFD |
| 4437 | F3 Fire OPS B | South End Multi Company Responses - Typically used if Car 4 assigned to the call | 2016.08.10 WFD |
| 4439 | F4 Fire OPS C | Single Company Response (ie: Medical, MVA, etc) - Patched to 460.0500 (DPL 051) | 2019.03.19 ecps92 |
| 4441 | F5 Fire OPS D | 2016.08.10 WFD | |
| 4443 | Dispatch | Used to dispatch all calls: Single tone - One Company or Message Two tones - Multi Companies Three tones - Reported Building Fires or SCUBA alerts |
2016.08.10 WFD |
| 4451 | Fire Prevention | Fire Code Enforcement | 2016.08.10 WFD |
| 4445 | TAC-10 | Overflow Fireground channel | 2016.08.10 WFD |
| 4447 | TAC-11 | Training/Overflow Fireground channel | 2016.08.10. WFD |
| 4449 | TAC-12 | Overflow Fireground channel (Encrypted) | 2019.03.28 W1KNE |
| 2509 | FD8 Simulcast | Mid-State Simulcast Used for Inter-op purposes on 453.7500 / 31.1000 TG: 40144 on Analog Zone 8 |
2018.12.23 14Comm9 |
| 2507 | FD7 Orange | Patched to Fire District 7 (Orange) - 159.4575. | 2019.03.28 W1KNE |
| 627 | Fire Wide Area | For use outside of Worc on the Commonwealths TRS | 2016.08.29 mjd553 |
The two fire simulcasts are not always active. The South County simulcast is active much more often. Fire alarm has the ability to patch these talkgroups to fireground channels.
Fire Conventional
| Frequency | Type | Tone | Note | Confirmation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 859.4875 | R | 131.8 | F16 - Dual Mode | Confirmation on Worcester County Fire Departments page |
| 859.4875 | R | N799 | F16 - Dual Mode | Confirmation on Worcester County Fire Departments page |
Fire Department Station Alert Talkgroups
The only activity on these TGs is keyups to activate paging and Klaxon systems in the fire houses. There is no voice on these channels. They are only included in this page for completeness.
| Talkgroup | Description | Comments | Confirmation/ReConfirmations |
| South Division | |||
| Headquarters | |||
| Park Ave | |||
| Webster Square | |||
| Brown Square (Inactive) | |||
| Southeast Division | |||
| Burncoat | |||
| Tatnuck | |||
| Greendale | |||
| Providence-The Rock (Inactive) | |||
| McKeon Rd | |||
| All Stations Alert |
Police Department Talkgroups
| Talkgroup | Use | Comments | Confirmation/Reconfirmations |
| 4369 | F1 East Dispatch | Routes 1-10 | 2016.03.26 KB1FJR |
| 4371 | F2 West Dispatch | Routes 11-20 | 2016.03.26 KB1FJR |
| 4373 | F3 CJIS | Record Checks | |
| 4375 | F4 TRAFFIC | Traffic Enforcement (ENC) | 2019.07.06 sawyer100 |
| 4377 | F5 Talkaround ?? | ||
| 4379 | F6 TAC-1 (ENC) | 2019.07.06 sawyer100 | |
| 4393 | F9 ?? (ENC) | 2019.07.06 sawyer100 | |
| F11 Details | |||
| F16 Talkaround | |||
| Street Crimes Unit | |||
| BCI/Detectives | |||
| F7 TAC-2 | |||
| GANGS-12 | Gang Units | ||
| Auto Theft | |||
| 4589 | SP Holden Tie | ||
| 629 | Police Wide Area | For use outside of Worc on the Commonwealth TRS |
Worcester EMS
- EMS and Ambulance Info can be found at the bottom of the page.
| Talkgroup | Use | Comments | Confirmation/ReConfirmations |
| 4481 | EMS Citywide | 2016.11.30 WorcNews | |
| 4485 | WEMS 2 | 2016.08.10 WFD | |
| 4487 | WEMS 3 | 2016.08.10 WFD | |
| 4489 | CMED Interop | 2016.08.10.WFD | |
| 631 | Worcester EMS Wide Area | For use outside of Worc on the Commonwealth TRS | 2020.04.12 mjd553 |
Public Safety Talkgroups
| Talkgroup | Use | Comments | Confirmation/ReConfirmations |
| 2111 | C-PTL-1 | MSP C Troop Patrol 1 | 2016.02.14 WorcNews |
| 2113 | C-PTL-2 | MSP C Troop Patrol 2 | 2016.02.14 WorcNews |
| 2115 | C-PTL-3 | MSP C Troop Patrol 3 | 2016.02.14 WorcNews |
| 2283 | LPS-7 | Local Public Safety 7 | 2016.03.05 Garys |
| 2285 | LPS-8 | Local Public Safety 8 | 2016.05.01 AFD94 |
| 2301 | NB PD-1 | New Braintree Regional PD-1 | 2016.02.14 WorcNews |
| 625 | Worcester EMA Wide Area | Emergency Managment For use outside of Worc on the Commonwealth TRS |
2019.03.28 W1KNE |
| 691 | DCR Fire 1 | DCR Fire Towers | 2019.07.06 sawyer100 |
Citywide Talkgroups
| Talkgroup | Use | Comments | Confirmation/ReConfirmations |
| 4585 | Fire / EMS / PD | ||
| 4577 | Event A | ||
| 4579 | Event B | ||
| 4581 | Event C | ||
| 4583 | 911 Emergency | 2016.05.17 WorcNews | |
| 4353 | Emergency Management | 2016.03.31 ScanWorcester |
The Interagency talkgroup is primarily used for communication between FD and EMS or PD and EMS.
The events channels are in every PD and FD radio. (maybe more?)
The 911 Emergency talkgroup is in every city radio, as well as WRTA buses. It is monitored by a Fire Department dispatcher. It usually is used by DPW workers or WRTA drivers to report MVAs or medical emergencies. During a recent disaster drill it was used for communication between the dispatcher and incident commander.
Airport Talkgroups
Airport vehicles also have access to 120.5000 ORH Tower to talk to the tower while driving in/on the runway areas.
- Some of these Talkgroups will also appear on the Massport-Boston Zone
| Talkgroup | Use | Comments | Confirmation/ReConfirmations |
| 51 | ORH Fire Department | ||
| 179 | ORH Security/ARFF | 2016.09.11 mjd553 | |
| 177 | ORH Emergency | 2016.08.01 WorcNews | |
| ORH Admin | |||
| 183 | ORH Maint | 2016.09.12 mjd553 | |
| 185 | ORH Operations |
Other Non-Public Safety Talkgroups
Note there are numerous Talk Groups listed on other sites, most are inactive. It would take up too much space to list them all on this page. A lot of these TGs use informal communications (e.g. "Hey Bob!") and at the most refer to a "base" as dispatch (e.g. "Water Base"). Some of these TGs. have very brief communications and extreme bouts of inactivity. This is mainly due to the nature of their jobs not needing radio communications as much as public safety agencies, and the proliferation of cell phones for use by smaller city agencies.
| Talkgroup | Use | Comments | Confirmation/ReConfirmations |
| Testing F-5 | |||
| 2209 | State Radio Techs | 2016.03.04 MJD553 | |
| WORAD Techs | |||
| 4521 | DPW Water Dept | 2016.04.26 WorcNews | |
| 4525 | DPW Water Filtration | 2016.05.27 WorcNews | |
| 4517 | DPW Sewer Dept | 2016.05.17 WorcNews | |
| 4519 | DPW Street Dept | 2016.05.27 WorcNews | |
| DPW Engineering | 2016.07.21 WorcNews | ||
| Code Enforcement | |||
| 4535 | DPW Cemeteries | 2016.04.20 | |
| 4537 | DPW Forestry | 2016.04.20 | |
| 4527 | DPW Sanitation Dept | 2016.07.21 WorcNews | |
| 4513 | DPW Snow Plows | 2016.03.17 JoeSNE | |
| 4515 | DPW Garage | 2016.07.21 WorcNews | |
| DPW Traffic | |||
| 4529 | DPW Parking Cntrl | 2016.05.27 WorcNews | |
| 4561 | School Transport - A | 2016.08.01 KB1FJR | |
| Code Enforcement | |||
| DPW Admin | |||
| 4531 | DPW - Parks Maintenance | 2016.04.05 ScanWorcester |
Conventional Channels
| Frequency | Type | Tone | Use | Comments | Confirmation/Re-Confirmations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33.6200 | S | So County Simul | Need patch information to P25 system | ||
| 33.7000 | S | No County Simul | Need patch information to P25 system | ||
| 460.0500 | R | D051 | F4 Fire Ops C | Patched to 4439 | 2019.03.19 ecps92 |
| 462.9500 | R | 186.2 | Citywide EMS | Patched to 4481 | |
| 859.4875 | S | 131.8 | F16 Fire TA | Talk-Around not Patched | |
| 859.4875 | R | 131.8 | Worcester Repeater 1 - Analog | 2016.08.10 WFD | |
| 859.4875 | R | N799 | Worcester Repeater 1 - P25 | 2016.08.10 WFD | |
| 855.9875 | R | 131.8 | Worcester Repeater 2 - Analog | 2016.08.10 WFD | |
| 855.9875 | R | N799 | Worcester Repeater 2 - P25 | 2016.08.10.WFD | |
| 769.00625 | S | 131.8 | Local Fireground - Analog | 2016.08.10 WFD | |
| 769.00625 | S | N799 | Local Fireground - P25 | 2016.08.10 WFD | |
| 769.03125 | S | N799 | Fire Ops A Fireground | 2016.08.10 WFD | |
| 769.04375 | S | N799 | Fire Ops B Fireground | 2016.08.10 WFD | |
| 769.01875 | S | N799 | Fire Ops D Fireground | 2016.08.10 WFD |
Department Information
Fire Department Responses
Single company responses include: Medical Assists, Private Residential Alarms, Local Alarms, Brush Fires, Motor Vehicle accidents, Vehicle Fires, Spills, etc.
Multi Company Responses include:
- One Engine, One Ladder, the Rescue, and a district chief for: Smell of Natural Gas, Hazmat Situation, Elevator Problems, Accidents with Entrapment, etc
- Two Engines, One Ladder, and the District Chief for: Private Commercial Alarms, Boiler Problems, Electrical Problems, Stove Fires, other appliance fires (driers, etc), some Master Boxes, etc.
- Two Engines, One Ladder, rescue and the District chief response on most master boxes.
- Two Engines for: Medical call or Motor Vehicle accident on I290. Two engines sent in order to have one come each direction in case the location was given incorrectly.
Reported building fires get a response of Four Engines, Two Ladders, the Rescue, a district Chief, and an additional Ladder for RIT.
Subsequent Alarms:
2nd Alarm: 2 Engines, 1 Ladder, Special Ops District Chief, Safety Officer, District Chief
3rd Alarm: 2 Engines, 1 Ladder, Field Communications, Notification of Department Chief and Deputy Chief
4th Alarm: 2 Engines
5th Alarm: 2 Engines
6th Alarm: 2 Engines
Common mutual aid is an Engine and Tower from Auburn, Tower from Holden, Engine from Millbury, Engine from Shrewsbury, and an Engine from Paxton. This mutual aid does not normally occur until at least a fourth alarm. City companies are moved up before mutual aid is called in.
EMS Responses and Information
Ambulance service in the City of Worcester is provided by Worcester EMS aka UMass EMS. They operate on 462.950 110.9 with Paramedics 1 through 5 providing primary coverage to the city. P1, P2, P3, P4, P6 (Shrewsbury 911 truck) are 24 hours per day, and P5 is 1000-2200 Friday through Monday, 1000-0200 (in two, eight-hour shifts) Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Backup coverage is provided by various private companies.
Primary operations are on the city P25 trunk system.
