Buffalo NY area info

Buffalo NY area

Buffalo NY is surrounded by (or is part of) part of Erie County NY.

Erie County is divided into 3 cities + 25 towns - (there are also 16
villages but I am not exactly sure how they fit into the puzzle)

there are 94 VFDs in the county per
http://www2.erie.gov/fire/index.php?q=fire-departments - plus 3 city
FDs and 1 airport FD and 1 Indian FD and maybe some industrial FDs

the city FDs are fully paid and operate their own dispatch and radio systems

the VFDs are sort of grouped by Towns - each town might have its own
dispatch center and radio system - except that some of these town
dispatch centers serve multi towns

If I had to guess - I would guess that there are 15 suburban dispatch
centers that dispatch the various VFDs

the 94 VFDs might have 120 stations in total

almost all FDs use UHF - some use VHF highband - no one uses 800 Mhz apparently

there are a couple of county wide UHF fire channels

ambulances seem to be provided by private companies mostly - on their
own radio channels

several villages have their own VFDs - but they are listed under the
Town groupings - so for radio and dispatch purposes, they are probably
grouped with the other VFDs usually

I am still trying to figure out the dispatch channels for the outlying
VFDs - some might still be on 46 Mhz still