-- Recommended --
MacCom 911 Emergency Unit Numbers
MERNS - Macoupin Emergency Response Numbering System
For the MABAS Numbering System
(UPDATED 1/27/08)
 

Mac911  - Macoupin 911 Communications Center
Macoupin - Macoupin County Sheriff's Department Dispatch

MERNS - Macoupin Emergency Response/Responders Numbering System
FireNet - 154.07
IFERN - 154.265 WITH 210.7 PL tone

Converting to MABAS Numbers 
--The first two digits indicate the department, jurisdiction or agency. For example, all of Edwardsville’s trucks start with “13.”
--The third digit tells the type vehicle or personnel identifier. As a general rule:
0 = chief or commanding officer
1 and 2 = engines, pumpers
3 = trucks, ladder truck, aerial apparatus or combination of pumper/rescue/ladder, a.k.a. “Quint”
4 = ambulances
5 = rescue squads, which include specialized equipment such as trench rescue
6 = tenders, water tankers
7 = brush trucks
8 = fire prevention vehicles
9 = administrative vehicles

The last number indicates the unit/personnel designated by the department/district. The rule is:
0 = chief

Agency (Dispatched by)

Current
Call Signs

New
Call Signs

Comment

Sheriff's Department (MCSD)

Mary

59-xx

 (Fifty Nine oh one)

Alton Memorial Hospital EMS (?)

4Axx

 

Atwater

-

 

 

Barr

-

 

 

Benld FD (Mt. Olive)

600s

1100

 

Benld Police

586A

4100

 

Brighton Police

58

4200 

 

Brighton-Betsy Ann FD (Brighton PD)

 

1200

 

Bunker Hill Ambulance (Bunker Hill PD)

3Lxx

3100

 

Bunker Hill Police Department

58x

4300

 

Bunker Hill Fire Department (Bunker Hill PD)

 

1300

 

Dunns Ambulance (Carlinville)

3Ixx

3200

 

Carlinville Fire Department (Carlinville PD)

 

1400

 

Carlinville Police Department

585

4400

 

Chesterfield Fire Department

-

1500

  

Chesterfield Police Department

-

4500

 

Dorchester FD (?Gillespie?)

 

1600

  

Eagerville

-

 

 

East Gillespie (Gillespie)

-

 

 

Farmersville-Waggoner FD (Montgomery County)

MG County

  

Farmersville-Waggoner AS (Mont Co 911)

MG County

contact Montgomery  Co 911

Gillespie/Benld Ambulance Service (Gillespie PD)

 

3300

 

Gillespie FD (Gillespie PD)

 

1700

 

Gillespie Police Department

588

4600

 

Girard FPD (Virden PD)

 

1800 

 

Girard Police Department (Sheriff)

586A

4700 

 

Greenfield FPD

GN County

 

Hettick Fire Department (Palmyra?)

  

1900

 

Hettick Police

-

-

 

Hornsby 

-

-

 

Litchfield FD (Litchfield/Mont Co 911)

MG County

contact Litchfield

Litchfield EMS (Litchfield)

MG County

contact Litchfield

Medora Chesterfield Ambulance

 

3400

 

Medora FD

 

2000

 

Medora Police

583M

4800

 

Miles Station

-

MCSD

Modesto Police  (Fire: See Scottville)

-

4900

MCSD

Mt. Clare (Benld PD)

586

 

Mt. Olive Ambulance (Mt. Olive PD)

900

3500 

 

Mt. Olive Police

586x

5000

 

Mt. Olive FPD (Mt. Olive)

500

2100

 

Nilwood Fire

 

 

Girard FPD

Nilwood Police

582N

5100

 

New Douglas FD (Madison Co 911)

 Madison County

contact Madison Co 911

NorthWestern Area Fire & Ambulance (?)

 

2200 

 

Palmyra FD

  

 

 

Prairieland Ambulance (Virden PD)

 

3600

 

Raymond CFPD

 

 

contact Montgomery Co. 911

Royal Lake Police

 

5200

 

Scottville-Modesto FPD

 

2300

 

Shipman AAS 

 

3700

 

Shipman PD

 

5300

 

Shipman FD

 

2400

 

Staunton AS

 

3800

 

Staunton PD

590

5400

 

Staunton FD

 

2500

 

Virden PD

58x

5500

 

Virden FPD

 

2600

 

Wilsonville PD

588W

5600

 

Wilsonville FD

 

2700