Massachusetts - misc 1984 info

I guess I had spent a day at the State House Library looking at Annual
Town Reports back in 1984.

Westminister - the local comm center is operated by the FD

Worcester - The 911 section of the PD has 33 people to handle 11 911
lines + 3 complaint phone lines + 2 switchboard lines - "2 phones on
each desk for fire and ambulance calls" (?ring down phones from the
Police dispatch office to Fire Alarm and EMS Dispatch?)

Worcester - The ambulance budget is under the City Hospital - 83/84 saw
$381,000 for salaries, and $183,000 for maintenance and general expenses

Worcester - The FD is planning for a new station at Grafton and Ernest
Ave - the telephone circuits to each fire station were given up as too
costly - radio dispatch is used now - the FCC may force the FD to change
freqs (abandon 460.525 in other words IIRC)

Arlington - FD - 26 major fires - $246,000 dollar loss at structure
fires - the FY85 town valuation was $1,219,991,200 - the Arlington
Selectmen are not satisfied with the proposed level of ALS

Charlton - FD reclassified from ISO Class 8/9 to ISO Class 6/9 - this
will cause savings of 14% in wood buildings, 27% in masonry buildings,
and 24% in fire resistant buildings

Lancaster - Comm Center is staffed by 3 FT and 5 PT dispatchers - they
got a DPW radio and handled 35,000 phone calls (that must be a typo)

Charlemont FD got a new business phone number - 339-8351 - it will ring
at the Fire Chief's house and the Fire Station

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I must have found some FCC info somewhere.

46.06 - Lynnfield FD - 100 watts - 59 Summer St - 80 feet HTIP (height
of tip of antenna above ground)

46.06 - Melrose FD - 100 watts - 576 Main St - 90 feet

46.06 - Wakefield - 150 watts - 75 feet

46.06 - Middleton - 110 watts - ERP 85 - 94'+75' (ground at 94 feet
above sea level plus 75 feet worth of tower)

46.06 - Reading - 100 w - erp 95 - 124 + 55' - with 45 watt mobiles

46.46 - Peabody - no info

46.46 - Ashland - 300w - 188'+?

46.46 - Holliston - 100w

46.46 - Milford - 100 watts

45.48 - Beverly - 110 watts - 10' + 65'

46.14 - Stoughton - no info

46.14 - Ayer - 180 watts - at HQ - 60 feet - plus a base station at the
Police Station

?46.14 - Braintree - Union at Washington - 100 watts - 90'

(if no addresses given, then tower was located at HQ)





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