Worcester Regional

Worcester Trunked Radio System IMPORTANT NOTE: Rebanding of the Worcester Trunk System has been completed. Please see the updated LCN order listed below. A simple reprogram of your scanner will allow you to again follow the Worcester TRS. EDACS-Wide 800MHz System Listen Live!: MP3 Feed Teamspeak Feed

EDACS-WIDE System Frequencies

• Must be programmed in exact channel order (LCN) as seen below

Frequency	LCN
856.5125	1
854.1375	2
854.8875	3
854.4625	4
854.2125	5
855.4875	6
855.7125	7
855.7375	8
855.9625	9
855.9875	10

Fire Department Talkgroups

DEC	AFS	Description	Comments
549	04-045	F1 Fire Admin	Typically used for companies on-the-air, not responding to incidents
545	04-041	F2 Fire Ops A	North End Multi Company Responses Typically used if Car 3 assigned to the call
546	04-042	F3 Fire Ops B	South End Multi Company Responses Typically used if Car 4 assigned to the call
547	04-043	F4 Fire Ops C	Single Company Response (ie: Medical, MVA, etc) Also linked to 460.050 (DPL 051)
548	04-044	F5 Fire Dispatch	Used to dispatch all calls: Single tone - One Company or Message Two tones - Multi Companies Three tones - Reported Building Fires or SCUBA alerts
577	04-081	F6 Fire Prevention	Fire Code Enforcement
578	04-082	F7 FD Staff	Used mostly by administration and chiefs
583	04-087	TAC-10	Overflow Fireground channel
580	04-084	TAC-11	Training/Overflow Fireground channel
582	04-086	TAC-12	Overflow Fireground channel
586	04-092	Worcester EMS Med 9 Simulcast	Used for Inter-op purposes on 462.950
587	04-093	Mid-State Fire Simulcast	Used for Inter-op purposes on 33.70
588	04-094	South County Fire Simulcast	Used for Inter-op purposes on 33.62

The two fire simulcasts are not usually active. I believe fire alarm has the ability to patch these talkgroups to fireground channels. Worcester fire alarm uses the low-band frequencies to communicate with other towns.

The Fire Department also has access to 859.4875 131.8. This frequency is F16 in most radios and is a conventional talkaround frequency.

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:

1. One Engine, One Ladder, the Rescue, and a district chief for: Smell of Natural Gas, Hazmat Situation, Elevator Problems, Accidents with Entrapment, etc
   
2. 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.
   
3. Two Engines, One Ladder, rescue and the District chief response on most master boxes.
   
4. 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.

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.

DEC	AFS	Description
738	05-122	South Division
739	05-123	Headquarters
740	05-124	Park Ave
741	05-125	Webster Square
742	05-126	Brown Square
743	05-127	Southeast Division
744	05-130	Burncoat
745	05-131	Tatnuck
747	05-133	Greendale
748	05-134	Providence-The Rock
751	05-137	McKeon Rd
736	05-120	All Stations Alert

Police Department Talkgroups

DEC	AFS	Description	Comments
1057	08-041	F1 East Dispatch	Routes 1-10
1058	08-042	F2 West Dispatch	Routes 11-20
1089	08-081	F3 CJIS	Record Checks
1121	08-121	F5 Talkaround
1059	08-043	F6 TAC-1
1060	08-044	TRAFFIC-4	Traffic Enforcement
1061	08-045	F11 Details
581	04-085	F16 Talkaround
1094	08-086	Anti-Violence Street Crimes Unit
1125	08-125	BCI/Detectives
1132	08-134	F7 TAC-2
1133	08-135	GANGS-12	Gang Units
1158	09-006	Auto Theft
1159	09-007	Tie to State Police Holden

Citywide Talkgroups

DEC	AFS	Description
1123	08-123	Fire/EMS/PD Interagency
1665	13-001	Event A
1666	13-002	Event B
1667	13-003	Event C
1668	13-004	911 Emergency

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 busses. 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

DEC	AFS	Description
1702	13-046	Airport Police
1579	12-053	Airport Admin/Emergency

Worcester EMS

ID	FREQUENCY	TONE	Comments
UMASS EMS/MED-9	462.950	186.2	Primary Ops
UMASS EMS	453.4875	186.2	TAC-1, Secondary

Ambulance Service in the City of Worcester is provided by Worcester EMS aka UMass EMS. They operate on 462.950 186.2 with Paramedics 1 through 5 providing primary coverage to the city. P1, P2, P3 are 24 hours per day, P4 is 20 hours per day, and P5 is 10 hours per day. Backup coverage is provided by P6 (Shrewsbury 911 truck) as well as various private companies.

Other Non-Public Safety Talkgroups

Confirmed use (as of 04/2008). 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.

DEC	AFS	Description
1549	12-015	Testing on F-5
1550	12-016	WORAD Radio Techs
1569	12-041	DPW Water Dept.
1570	12-042	DPW Water Filtration (Sewer Treatment Plant)
1571	12-043	DPW Sewer Dept.
1573	12-045	DPW Street Dept.
1574	12-046	DPW Engineering
1575	12-047	Code Enforcement ('OLD' TG)
1577	12-051	DPW Cemeteries
1578	12-052	DPW Forestry (Tree Removal)
1580	12-054	Labeled "CC OPS" in Scanner, Some use maybe Buildings?
1581	12-055	DPW Sanitation Dept. (Trash Trucks) ('New' TG)
1582	12-056	DPW Snow Emergency
1601	12-081	DPW Garage (Central Garage)
1603	12-083	DPW Traffic Signals/Signs
1604	12-084	DPW Parking Control Officers/Parking Meter Maint. ('New' TG)
1605	12-085	School Transportation A (Special Needs buses)
1636	12-124	Code Enforcement ('New' TG)
1644	12-134	DPW Administration
1699	13-043	DPW Park Maintenance
1703	13-047	Maint. A (Maintaining Airport)

Worcester TRS Information information is current, up to date and confirmed by:

• Greg/Lynskey85
• Joe/ScanWorcester

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