I had heard that there would possibly be some renumbering in the county this year, interesting.

Sharp looking rig.

"The San Miguel Consolidated Fire District Board has decided not to build a new fire station in El Cajon near the Lakeside border.

Board members voted 4-3 to stop a plan that has been in the works for three years. The property is less than a mile away from a new Lakeside Fire District station on Winter Gardens Boulevard." Read More

Sounds like San Miguel might reopen talks with Lakeside to coexist in Lakeside's new station 1.

What exactly would be the benefits of fire going encrypted? If there are any.

I would love to see them return to Heartland and their old numbering, I was never really fond of the 4 digits. 

I have not heard the new truck code yet but by the way you describe it it could be running the Whelen Epsilon which is the same siren B2 and M4 run.

Here's a video of M4 running code with the Epsilon. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Ul_hLKQrI

From Heartland's instagram.
"Heartland Fire & Rescue takes pride in having the most up to date equipment and apparatus. This new @piercemfg engine will proudly serve the city of la mesa after the first of the year."

There are some new AMR units rolling around San Diego City. Medics 487, 489, 980, and 985 have been showing up on pulsepoint today, I'm not sure if these units are renumbered units or if they were put in to supplement the city due to Rural/Metro's poor response times the last few months.

13 hours ago, codethree said:

Trying to keep track of the Mercy ambulance stations:

I have 45 in Descanso, 47 in Boulevard, 36 in Jamul with 38 and 238 at Donovan in Otay Mesa

Anyone know:

Is Medic-26 at Alpine 17

Where is Medic 20 based?

 

 

26 is at station 17 and 20 is at Monte Vista HQ but does move around a lot during the day.

2 hours ago, x635 said:

Was Rural Metro Fire affected by this merger? Are they going to be rebranded as well?

Read earlier today that Rural Metro Fire would not be affected by the merge.

Just spotted one of these rigs on the road marked as M26, is this the start of a Rural/Metro transition to AMR?

From what I've seen its only staffed during weather events like the red flag we just had and potential flooding rains. I've seen it run on medical aids usually taking the place of the engine and of course vegetation fires, i'm not sure what kind of rescue equipment it has if any. 

Was reading some meeting agendas and minutes from Heartland recently and saw that a possible merger with NCDJPA was in the talks.

There is talk about this possible merge in the 3rd paragraph of their 2016-2017 Financial Plan which you can read here.

This is on the agenda for the fire board meeting on the 27th.

ACTION AGENDA ITEMS

2. Approve purchase of Fire Prevention vehicle.  

3.  CSA  115  –  The  Board  of  Directors  will  discuss  and  may  take  action  to  re-establish  discussions with Lakeside Fire District to further explore possibilities of a joint CSA 115 annexation.  

4. CSA 115 – The Board of Directors will discuss and may take action to stop development of the Station 19 fire station (Pepper Drive) pending results of discussions with Lakeside Fire District regarding CSA-115.

I was reading on another site that the county might be trying to get a unified station / apparatus numbering system going due to the fact that there are many duplicates and a few triplicates in the current system.

Ex. SDFD, Coronado, and County Stations 36, HRT and SDFD Stations 10 and etc.

Now that San Miguel will be returning to a standalone agency and going back to their 2 digit numbering it will further increase the number of duplicate stations. The person who posted about this also stated that it would happen probably sometime next year if it were to happen which would be around the same time that San Miguel changes their numbering back.

Have any of you heard anything about this? And do you think it would be a good idea to have a unified system throughout the county?

They will be returning to Heartland for dispatch services. 

Here is a page from the analysis that was conducted.

Here is a link to view the entire analysis.

https://www.facebook.com/CAL-FIRE-Local-2881-Firefighters-of-San-Miguel-1599182290364788/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1751030658513283

T36 is one amazing looking rig, too bad they had to ruin it with the counties awful graphics.

The Border Fire is definitely bringing some interesting sights to El Cajon. The day the fire started SDFD E44 went code by my house in El Cajon on the way to the Border Fire, there are also some strike teams in various parking lots around El Cajon either resting or grouping up to head down to the fire.

Patrol 2 is being staffed today for the extreme heat and fire danger.

Lakeside's Patrol 2 was in service during some of the rain events during the winter, I haven't seen it on Pulsepoint since.

Thanks '619Emergencys'.  I saw Medic 9 rolling on calls Monday+Tuesday, but figured not much longer.   Do you know how the AMR supervisor coverage works, how many supervisors or what is her/his area of responsibility.  Speaking of El Cajon, I believe T6 is back over at 6's and not housed at 9's any longer.  I suspect they were doing some remodeling in 6's rig bay areas. 

I haven't seen or heard anything on any AMR supervisors, I would imagine with 4 AMR units in El Cajon there would be some sort of supervisor covering the area if needed and T6 is currently out of service again and E206 is in service at station 6.

El Cajon is now all AMR.

Medic 440, interesting looking AMR unit.