Berkshire County Fire Departments
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Fire District 12
- Fire District 12 covers Berkshire County
- Daily tone tests conducted around 6pm, provided there isn't a call in the county
- Great Barrington tests pagers for GB/Housatonic Mondays at 5:45 PM
- County Fire identifies as "470" and "Berkshire Sheriff's Control"
- All county departments are dispatched from the county control, unless otherwise indicated as "local" below.
- All county departments are dispatched on the county frequencies below unless otherwise noted
- All tones are on "Dispatch", all other radio traffic is on "Response"
- No mobile or portable radios are heard on "Dispatch", with the exception of Otis, Sandisfield, and Tolland
- There are several county transmitter locations:
- Lenox Mountain, Richmond Primary Site
- Mount Wilcox, Monterey
- DPW Garage, Blandford
- Cory Road Fire Tower, Savoy
- WUPE-FM Tower, North Adams
- 76 East Street, Pittsfield
- East Otis Road, Tolland (This is a repeater site. Units in Otis, Sandisfield & Tolland are repeated)
- Berkshire County also dispatches Middlefield (Hampshire County), Tolland (Hampden County), and Blandford (Hampden County)
- Egremont now has the ability to communicate on frequencies used by Columbia County NY.
| Frequency | Type | Tone | Notes | Confirmation/ReConfirmations |
| 154.3100 | S | 107.2 | Dispatch | 2020.01.21 W1KNE |
| 152.9825 | S | 131.8 | Response Channel | 2020.01.21 W1KNE |
| 159.7575 | S | D413 | Command | 2014.11.04 W1KNE |
| 154.1600 | S | 107.2 | Fireground 1 (North County) | |
| 155.8050 | S | 107.2 | Fireground 2 (South County) | 2019.08.10 W1KNE |
| 153.8825 | S | D343 | Fireground 3 | 2019.08.10 W1KNE |
| 158.8050 | S | 107.2 | Interior Units (On Scene) | 2018.01.30 W1KNE |
Department Frequency Information
| Town Name | Alpha Tag | Frequency | Type | Tone/TG | Notes | Confirmation/ReConfirmations |
| ADAMS | ADAMS FD | County Fire | 2017.09.20 MrSvenSven | |||
| ADAMS | ADAMS FG | 153.8900 | S | 107.2 | Fireground | |
| ADAMS | ADAMS FOREST | 155.8875 | R | 107.2 | Forest Wardens | 2016.08.13 Alarmroom |
| ALFORD | ALFORD FIRE | County Fire | ||||
| ALFORD | ALFORD FIRE | 159.4500 | S | D023 | "Alford Fire Channel". Local Non Incident Ops | 2018.03.24 W1KNE |
| BECKET | BECKET FIRE | County Fire | 2017.08.27 MrSvenSven | |||
| CHESHIRE | CHESHIRE FD | County Fire | 2017.09.19 MrSvenSven | |||
| CLARKSBURG | CLARKSBURG FD | DB: North Adams on county channel | 2012.06.18 W1KNE | |||
| DALTON | DALTON FD | 153.8150 | R | 107.2 | Self Dispatched | 2019.02.16 W1KNE |
| EGREMONT | EGREMONT FD | County Fire | 2017.08.26 MrSvenSven | |||
| FLORIDA | FLORIDA FD | County Fire | 2016.07.17 W1KNE | |||
| GREAT BARRINGTON | GT BARRINGTON FD | Self Dispatch on county channels, callsign "849" | 2019.02.16 W1KNE | |||
| HANCOCK | HANCOCK FD | County Fire | 2017.08.26 MrSvenSven | |||
| HINSDALE | HINSDALE FD | 155.6400 | R | 107.2 | DB:Dalton | 2017.08.27 MrSvenSven |
| HINSDALE | HINSDALE FG | 154.0700 | S | 107.2 | Local Fireground | |
| HINSDALE | HINSDALE FD | 159.6375 | R | 107.2 | Berkshire County Repeater (Repeats 152.9825)(Unlicensed) | 2017.07.30 MrSvenSven |
| LANESBOROUGH | LANESBOROUGH FD | County Fire | 2012.08.03 W1KNE | |||
| LANESBOROUGH | LANESBOROUGH FD UHF | 453.5000 | R | 107.2 | Fire UHF Crosspatch (188 Summer Street Location) | 2012.08.03 W1KNE |
| LANESBOROUGH | LANESBOROUGH FD UHF | 453.9250 | R | 107.2 | Fire UHF Crosspatch (655 Cheshire Road Location) | 2012.08.03 W1KNE |
| LEE | LEE FIRE | Local Dispatch on county channels. Callsign KCD927 or "Lee Dispatch" | 2017.07.30 MrSvenSven | |||
| LENOX | LENOX FD | County Fire | 2019.02.16 W1KNE | |||
| MONTEREY | MONTEREY FD | County Fire | 2017.09.18 MrSvenSven | |||
| MOUNT WASHINGTON | - | - | - | - | No Local FD. Covered by Egremont/Columbia Cty NY | 2017.08.26 MrSvenSven |
| NEW ASHFORD | NEW ASHFORD FD | County Fire | ||||
| NEW MARLBOROUGH | NEW MARLBORO FD | County Fire | 2017.08.27 MrSvenSven | |||
| NORTH ADAMS | NORTH ADAMS FD | 170.1500 | R | 107.2 | Local Dispatch | 2017.08.25 MrSvenSven |
| OTIS | OTIS FD | County Fire | 2017.08.01 MrSvenSven | |||
| PERU | PERU FD | County Fire | 2017.08.27 MrSvenSven | |||
| PERU | PERU FG | 154.1300 | S | 107.2 | Local Fireground | |
| PITTSFIELD | PITTSFIELD FD | 154.3400 | R | 107.2 | Local Dispatch/Operations (Medic Disp. too.) | 2019.02.16 W1KNE |
| PITTSFIELD | PITTSFIELD FG | 154.2200 | S | 107.2 | Local Fireground Operations | |
| RICHMOND | RICHMOND FD | County Fire | 2017.08.11 MrSvenSven | |||
| SANDISFIELD | SANDISFIELD FD | County Fire | 2017.07.29 MrSvenSven | |||
| SAVOY | SAVOY FD | County Fire | 2017.08.01 MrSvenSven | |||
| SAVOY | SAVOY FG | 154.2050 | S | 107.2 | Local Fireground | |
| SHEFFIELD | SHEFFIELD FD | County Fire | 2017.08.11 MrSvenSven | |||
| STOCKBRIDGE | STOCKBRIDGE FD | County Fire (Tones can originate locally from a local alarm) | 2017.08.27 MrSvenSven | |||
| TYRINGHAM | TYRINGHAM FD | County Fire | 2017.08.26 MrSvenSven | |||
| WASHINGTON | - | - | - | - | No Local FD. Covered by Becket & Pittsfield. | |
| WEST STOCKBRIDGE | W STOCKBRIDGE FD | County Fire | 2017.08.01 MrSvenSven | |||
| WILLIAMSTOWN | WILLIAMSTOWN FD | 154.1300 | R | 107.2 | Local Dispatch | 2017.07.11 MrSvenSven |
| WILLIAMSTOWN | WILLIAMSTOWN FG | 154.2350 | S | 107.2 | Fireground | |
| WINDSOR | WINDSOR FD | 155.7150 | R | 192.8 | DB:Dalton (Shared with PD) | 2017.08.13 MrSvenSven |
