Melrose - pop 30,000 - 4.7 square miles - a city
Melrose FD - 3 stations - Channel 1 - dispatch, response, on scene - 159.405R - Channel ?5 - 153.83 - base and mobile
Sta 1 - Center - E1 L1
E1 - 1999 Seagrave
E5 - 1999 brush truck
Sta 2 - Tremont St - E2
E2
Sta 3 - Porter St - E3
E3 - 1986 Mack
L1 -
Response Levels
Street Box - 2E + 1L + 1 Private Ambulance
Building Fire - 2E + 1L + 1 Private Ambulance
Hospital Box - 3E + 1L + 1 Private Ambulance + 1 Wakefield E + 1 Malden L
Ambulance Calls - 1E + 1 Private Ambulance
Radio Test - 0815AM
Mobiles - Car 1 - Engines 1,2,3,5 - Ladder 1 - P47 (the private ALS ambo) : Portables - C-1, C-3, E-1, E-1-hundred, E-2, E-2-hundred, E-3, E-3-hundred, L-1, L-2 Roof, L-3, P-47 portable
Dec 2002 - 0815 - Melrose - 159.405R - Car 1,2,3 - Engine 1,2,3 - Ladder 1 - P47 (paramedics) - (Engine 3 out of service due to ?lack of manpower) - portables - C1 C2 C3 - E1 E100 E101 - E2 E200 E201 - (E3 E300 E301) - L1 L2 L3 L4 - P47 portable - (E100 was pronounced "E 1 double oh" which is probably better than 'E 1 oh oh' :-)
High Hazard Structures
Melrose Wakefield Hospital, highrise elderly housing building
Melrose FD Profile with Photos by John Galla - 6/99
Labor Day - 04Sept00 - call for heavy smoke coming from a house near Bellevue Golf Course got E1 E2 L1 P47 (apparently E3 is not manned today)
Compiled - April 1, 1999
Last Updated - 5/1/99 - 24Dec2002
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