Boston EMS Manual - 633 pages

https://sop.bemsacademy.com/Boston_EMS_Policies_and_Procedures.pdf - from 2023

lots of comms info is included

https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/https://sop.bemsacademy.com/Boston_EMS_Policies_and_Procedures.pdf

Tac 1 is 462.975 R - thats the primary channel for boston ems

boston has 21 bls ambs days + 5 als ambs - at night there are 12 bls
ambs and 3 als ambs

dispatch has 6 people days and 5 people nights

462.95 R is their 2ndary channel - they use it for special events or
major events or if ch 1 goes down or for long low priority comms

there are a couple of other tac channels - 453.775 R + 460.525 R + 460.55 R

BAMA is 453.10 R - that is for dispatcher to dispatcher comms from
boston ems to private ambulance companies and mit student ambulance

155.28 and 155.34 are also mentioned but we have not heard them in use
for approx 40 years

around 2001 the uscg put 155.28 into their boats - and they were
adding uhf med channel portables to their helos with external antennas

there is a chart showing patches from cmed bases to hospitals in case
of cmed evacuation

phase 3 gets 6 ambs iirc - 20 to 30 patients - something like that

no mention of 470.20

etc

they dont to struck boxes sometimes

they only go to 3 or 4 hospitals out of the city - milton and everett
and mt auburn and ?