Boston FD - 1984 / 1987 Annual Report

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total FD budget - $55 million - OT was $2M of $50M personal costs

all SCBA converted from demand to positive pressure

fire stations have Channel 5 receivers (? 453.65 ?)

each engine was equipped with 650 feet of 4 inch hose

have 120 EMTs (but the 77/78 report said they had 500 EMTs - did they
lay off the new guys in 1982 due to Prop 2.5 - and all the new guys
were EMTs ?)

1980 (ish) - got 200 new mobile radios (probably UHF) - also got 78
new portable radios

1985 - installed Wang VS-25 computer at Fire Alarm - new cad - saved 3
minutes on dispatch when busy

got 1 new Motorola cellphone and 14 signal quality modules - probably
for voter system

1985 - got new portables (microphones?) - less water problems

Copley Place got repeater - maybe the first in a highrise

Sumner and Callahan Tunnels got repeaters - Pru Tunnel got a repeater
after a fire had problems

have 43 pagers

1984 - added 2 new remote receiver locations - West Roxbury High
School and Rogers School in Hyde Park

1985 - all stations got receivers on Ch 1 - "483.1625" - previously Ch
1 traffic was relayed to the stations via 33.74 - (I guess they had
33.74 receivers in the stations at some point)

bought 40 new satellite receivers - (maybe 4 receivers per location -
for a total of 10 sites)

per first page - report covers 78 to 87 - or 84 to 87 - its probably 84 to 87

Calendar Year 1985 - 91 arson arrests

replaced some of the Channel 5 receivers in fire stations - (iirc
there is a mention that these were paging receivers)

1982 - the FD has 216 mobile radios and 90 portable (hand held) radios

1983 - took over new subway radio system

there is also info - 5 channels - 36 bases - 12 satellite (remote)
receiver sites

Engine 20 is a quint - also - the 95 foot aerial tower has a 1500 gpm pump

all engines and aerials are diesel powered