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Permalink Reply by Tony Leonard,Jr. on March 31, 2010 at 4:32pm

Mine is 529(on turnout coat & pants)for the fire dept.,Roster Numbers issued to members by the fire district when approved by the commissioners for membership,we all have these numbers accordingly to when we got in.All chief's use thier raido call signs on the air,different from there Roster Number.

For the EMS Squad I'm "Pager 49"This is also my roster number there aswell,and is my raido call sign,when responding to or at the hall.

Permalink Reply by Mac Conant on March 31, 2010 at 5:01pm

My town (And the towns around us) Use a Distric number of sorts. Ours is 9, the town across the River is 1, and the other town is 3, ect.

Out truck numbers, and fire numbers run on the same idea.

Mine is 929.

There are no real Designated numbers for officers. Accpt the "Grand Pubahs"

Chief-901
Asst Chief-902
Dept Chief-904
(903 was Retired)

Our trucks are 91,92,93,94,97,98.

Permalink Reply by Seth Yahraes on March 31, 2010 at 5:08pm

The only people in my county to have numbers are officers. xx-50 or xx-51 is chief, In my department the cheif is 35-50 asst. chief 35-51 2nd asst chief is 35-52. Captains are 35-53 and 35-54 Lieutenants are 35-55, and 35-56.
The 50 numbers are for officers, xx-11 through xx-19 is an engine, xx-21 to xx-29 is ladder/tower. Xx-31 to xx-39 is tankers, xx-41 to xx-49 are brush/rescue/and mini pumpers. xx-70 to xx-79 are EMS officers and the 80 numbers are medical trucks.

Permalink Reply by Brandon Wilson on March 31, 2010 at 6:01pm

We just started the numbering system in our county, mainly because we started a new accountablity system. It is called the passport system. So far it is going well. The Chief officers that are not field personnel have had numbers for a while now. As far as field personnel go, we have just recently gotten ours. I am C-373. I am not sure how they derive what numbers we paid guys and gals are, but I do know that the volunteers that we have in the department are numbered in the order of their senority.

Permalink Reply by matthew on March 31, 2010 at 6:27pm

my number is 118

Permalink Reply by Carol E. Dawkins on March 31, 2010 at 6:52pm

To my knowledge I think they are randomly assign. Mine is 66 so I call myself the little devil.

Permalink Reply by Ben Waller on March 31, 2010 at 7:06pm

Around here, we already have names when we're hired, so the department doesn't issue us new ones.

We use riding assignments in the same way Kali's department does.

Numbers are a form of codes. The NIMS system wants us to get away from codes and go to standardized plain English.

Department numbers are absolutely of no consequence in the big picture, even if you're on a department that uses them.

Permalink Reply by kevin on March 31, 2010 at 8:15pm

my number is 41-129

Permalink Reply by David "slick" Rivers on March 31, 2010 at 9:20pm

Mine is 943.

Permalink Reply by melvin evanicky on March 31, 2010 at 10:19pm

The way it works in my dept. is only officers have full four digit numbers which is 1701- chief 1702- asst. chief 1703-1st captain 1704-2nd captain the rest of us firefighters have a two digit number which is 17 and we do not have a radio or a radio number. Again only the officers have radios or numbers but when we get to the station we have hand helds that we use on tach 1 when we are on scene.

Permalink Reply by lb on March 31, 2010 at 10:25pm

In my central Oregon Dept(s) 550 & 570 the chief and asst. chief are # 1 and #2 after the station then capt. are station then 20's like 5521,5721 then the Lt. are 30's 5531,5731, then all others are like mine 5589, 5789.

Permalink Reply by Paul Acosta on March 31, 2010 at 11:22pm

My normal assigned number is Brush 21. Since I've worked my way up the ranks, I went from Brush 905, Brush 904 and just was elected Chief last year am now Brush 901.

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