Hanscom Air Force Base FD - 1 station - 163.5375 - 173.5875 - 173.5125/EMS
Location - within the towns of Lexington, Bedford, Concord, and Lexington
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Sta 1 - FlightLine - Rescue 3 + Engine 4 + Engine 6 + ?WaterTender 7 + Crash 9 + Crash 10 + HazMat 11
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Response Levels
Building Fire - Chief 2 + R3 + 2E
Aircraft Emergency - Chief 2 + R3 + Crash 9 + ?Crash 10 + ?WT7 + Lincoln FD R1 + Lincoln FD E (the runways are jointly used by civilian and military aircraft)(Chief 2 is the duty officer)
Hot Brakes on a C130 - 7/13/99 - R3, Crash 9, Crash 10
03Sept00 - Citation with 7 SOB gear indication - Chief 2 + Rescue 3 + Crash 9 + Crash 10 responded (?plus Lincoln FD)
03Sept00 - North Suburban Paramedics seem to respond frequently to the base to assist the base ambulance - Armstrong Ambulance Service BLS ambulances also respond onto base at times as does the Bedford FD ambulance
07Nov00 - Lexington FD ambulance responds to calls at the Lincoln Labs (MIT facility on the base)
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Radio test - 0800 daily - 163.5375
Mobiles - Chief 2, Rescue 3, Eng 4, Eng 6, Crash 9, Crash 10, Hazmat 11, Unit 13 (4/20/99)
(May 20, 1999 - Crash 10 not on radio test - ?deployed to Europe?)
Portables - 31, 32, 41, 42, 61, 62, 10-1, Chief 2 (4/20/99)
Pump Panels - Engine 4 pump, Engine 6 pump (4/20/99)
Alert 2 Tone - high lows
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Radio System Operations
No paging nor beeping of boxes is done via the fire radio channels. Sept00 - DTMF trains (?6 DTMF tones quick) are used to open Knox boxes on rigs and ?buildings
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Training
On May 18, 1999, Hanscom AFB FD was conducting a night-time training exercise involving a C-130. (I have never heard any municipal FD in the Boston area conduct a night-time drill in 20 years.)
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For more info please see Hanscom AFB FD Website?broken
Try PHOTOS
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last update - 4/2/1999 - 04Sept00 - 07Nov00 - photo of R3