Malden - a city - 5 square miles - pop 50,000

Malden FD - 3 stations - 154.25R

Sta 1 - E1 L1 R1 - Center
E1 - 98 Pierce Dash 2000GPM
L1 - 97 Pierce 100' RM
R1 -
Car 2 - onduty shift commander/Deputy Chief

Sta 2 - E2 E4 - East
E2 -
E4 -

Sta 3 - E3 L3 - West
E3 - 98 Pierce Dash 2000GPM
L3 -

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Response Levels

Building Fire - 2E + 1L + R1 + Car2
Ambulance Call - 1E + 1 private ambulance + 1 police unit - (possibly R1 handles EMS calls for the Sta 1 district instead of E1)
Motor Vehicle Accident - 1E + R1 + 1 private ambulance
Malden Hospital - 2E + 1L + R1 + Car2 + 1 Medford E (12/01 - hospital is closed now - Medford E does not respond any longer on the first alarm)
Box 10-11 - Complete Radio Failure (3/19/1999)
Box 99 - test signal

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Radio Codes -
Code 3 - the police department

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Radio Test - 0830AM + ?1830PM
Mobiles - Car2 - Engines 1,2,3,4 - Rescue 1 - Ladder 1,3 - Car 2 rear mike - Eng 1 pump, Eng 2 pump, Eng 3 pump, Eng 4 pump
Portables - C2, E1, E2, E3, E4, R1, L1, L3, C200, E10, E20, E30, E40, L10, L30, L300, R10 (all portables honk on keyup)(E does not stand for "Engine" - E stands for E - as in the vowel - long E - eeeeeee)(L as in "el")(R as in argh)

December 2001 - for the last year or so - the dispatcher ends the radio test on 154.25R by saying - all portables switch (back) to Channel 3 and test - I guess that they go to 153.83 and test - however when they had a working fire on 23 Dec 2001, all radio comms was done on 154.25R (even the mutual aid units that came in to cover the city were on 154.25R)

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Radio Channels
154.25R - 158.985in - Channel 1 - Primary
154.25 - Channel 2 - Talkaround / Direct
153.83M - Channel 3 - Fireground - no access to the dispatcher
154.22 - ?Channel 4 - mutual aid Red channel
154.265 - ?Channel 5 - Administrative

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From the Malden FD website (May00)

JUNE 11, 1998
GENERAL ORDER 
NO. 98-23
RADIO TALK TONE
To: All Personnel

All portable radios have been installed with a talk permit tone. This tone has two uses (1) it allows the portable I.D. to go back to Fire Alarm, so that Fire alarm will know with whom they are talking. (2) When the tone stops that is your signal to now transmit your message on the radio.

The radios have sixteen channels and they are as follows.
1. Malden Main 
2. Metro Red 
3. Fireground 
4. Administration 
5. Revere Fire 
6. Medford Fire 
7. Melrose Fire 
8. Everett Fire 
9. Saugus Fire 
10. Chelsea Fire 
11. Lynn Fire 
12. Spare 13. Spare 14. Spare
15. Inverted this channel is on C-1,C-2, and W-1 portables and also in C-1, C-2 and the spare Deputies Car mobiles. There will also be three radios in the locker of Car 2 with this capability. [158.985RX - 154.25TX - PS]
16. Direct, point to point, portable to portable this channel will not go through the transmitter. [154.25TX-154.25RX - PS]
Anyone having any questions regarding the radios please contact Superintendant Riviera

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High Hazard Locations - Malden Hospital - Orange Line Above Ground Rapid Transit Subway Line with Malden Center Station and Oak Grove Station - high volume railroad tracks - highrise apartment buildings at Granada Highlands and 600 block of Salem St

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May 2000 - Please see www.geocities.com/morney55 for John Galla's Profile (with color photos of vehicles)

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EMS Operations - as of July 1, 1999, Cataldo Am bulance Service is now providing ambulances (with crews of 2 EMTs or ?2 paramedics) on contract to the City of Malden - previously, AMR had provided the service for several years - before that it was Malden Medford Amb Service or ?Baystate Amb Service in the 1970s (on 155.205)

22Sept00 - unknown type EMS call received 1 Engine Company + 1 Police Unit + 1 BLS Private Ambulance - Cataldo provided a ALS unit when requested by units at the scene - the ambulance operates on 154.25R with the fire units - the police unit operates on the Malden Police radio channel

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 Malden FD Website 

Also see www.massmetrofire.org for color photos and mutual aid box card (12/01)

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News Item - ?1998 - Ladder 1 crashed into Auxiliary Rescue 2 in bad weather - ?no injuries - ?no major damage

From the 19 Dec 2001 Central Register - Malden seeks to sell the old fire station at 62 Ashland St - appraisal at $100K

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Compiled - 4/24/99

Update - 4/30/99 - 7/3/99 - 25May00 - 22Sept00 - EMS - 30Dec2001 - info on radio use at fire + minor changes

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