Fire and American Ambulance Codes

01 DOA	55 Send PD
02 Bleeding	56 Send Water Department
03 Fractures	57 Send Mechanic
04 Cardiac Distress	58 Send Power Company
05 Cardiac Arrest	59 Call HQ by Phone
06 Respiratory Distress	60 Change Frequency (specify)
07 Poison	61 Apparatus Accident
08 Overdose	62 Call Mutual Aid
09 Unknown Problem	63 Apparatus on the Scene
10 Vehicle Accident	64 Make Inspection At (location)
11 Hospital Notified	65 Telephone Alarm (location)
12 Maternity	66 Sound Box Alarm
13 Critical Condition	67 Sound Second Alarm
14 Head Injury	68 Sound General Alarm
15 Routine Transfer	69 Special Call for Apparatus
16A Alcohol Problem	70 Are There Any Instructions?
16B Mental Disorder	71 Returning to Station
17 Shooting	72 Working Fire
18 Stabbing	73 Apparatus Available
19 Rape	74 Notify Chief of Fire
20 Terminally Ill	75 Notify Fire Marshal
21 Attempted Suicide	79 Give Your Location
22 Infectious Disease	80 All Clear on Signal 23/50
23 Emergency	83 Proceed With Caution
24 Disaster	85 Radio Test (specify reception)
25 Weather Alert	86 Prepare Food
40 Activate Knox box	87 Report to Your Station
49 Air Raid Alert	88 Department Information
50 Alarm of Fire	99 Aircraft Crash
51 Report to Your Station	500 Bomb Threat
52 Odd the Air
53 On the Air
54 Fire Under Control

ALS Radio contact between field personal and medical control for advanced
life support cases.
Priority-1 Immediate life threatening emergencies.
Priority-2 Potential life threatening or limb threatening emergencies
Priority-3 Sick or injured not threatening life or limb

Level 1 (R1) Medical Response Tech/Fire Department First Responder
Level 2 (R2) Basic Life Support EMT Ambulance
Level 3 (R3) Heavy Duty rescue
Level 4 (R4) EMT Intermediate Ambulance or 4x4
Level 5 (R5) Paramedic Ambulance or 4x4

American Ambulance

When you hear the dispatcher assign calls, if it's a call not on the
daily call sheet (which he'll assign as "Handle patient Brown, call
number 23A), he'll dispatch them as: "19 Code 3, 432 in the ED, patient
Brown, going to 518" 19 denotes that you are going to a hospital,
code three is routine (no lights), 432 is the facility code for WW Backus,
and 518 is the facility code for St. Christopher's in Norwich.
The first part of the dispatch denotes how the call originated, who called
American to report the call.

17 Local Police
18 Private Residence
19 Hospital
20 SNF (Skilled Nursing Facility)
21 DR's office
22 State police
23 911 call
24 Local Fire dept.
25 Neonatal transport
27 Call at Foxwoods.

Codes

1 Life or death, get there as fast as you can
2 Not as serious, but use your lights
3 Routine, go with traffic
4 Code 1 with a code 3 approach
5 Code 2 with a code 3 approach

Hospitals start with a 4

421 Hartford
431 L&M
432 Backus
433 Day Kimball
471 Yale
478 Windham

SNF's start with a 5

511 Hamilton Pavillion
509 Norwichtown Rehab

Clinics start with a 7

768 Gambro Dialysis Norwich
769 Gambro Dialysis New London
785 RI Renal Westerly
783 RI Renal Wakefield

There are also ten codes, which are taken from Norwich PD.

10 0 Need police immediately
10 33 MVA
10 42 Suicide attempt
10 45 demented person
10 46 ETOH person (intoxicated)
10 50 Universal precautions
10 51 Fire

Plainfield area codes:

523 Haven Healthcare Danielson
524 Haven Healthcare Griswold
529 Villa Maria
530 Westview
533 Matulaitus
540 Village Manor
544 St. Joseph's Living Center
553 Mansfield Center for Nursing and Rehab
791 Plainfield Walk-in clinic

American Ambulance Code Summary Signals

Dispatch Codes

10 0 Need PD immediately
10 05 Rape/Sex offense
10 33 MVA
10 42 Suicidal
10 45 Psych Pt.
10 46 ETOH
10 50 Body Substance Isolation
10 51 Fire
10 52 Requesting Supervisor
100 Cardiac Arrest
100D DOA

Assignments

102A Assist crew
103 Meal
103L Break
104 Inoperative
105 Special Assignment
106 Family
107 Notification
108 Unfound
109 Canceled Call
110 Phone Call
110A Alpha Page
111 Location
112 Assignment Complete
115 Coverage needed at American HQ
116 Coverage needed at MPTN FD
118 Expedite for another call
119 Narcotics (on ambulance)

Location Codes

1-101- American Hq
1-105- Chelsea Fleet Services
1-106- MPTN Complex

Transport Codes

Signal O- On Scene or at location

BA- Available
BT- Transporting

400 Series Codes- Hospitals
ex- 431=Lawrence and Memorial

500 Series Codes- Nursing Homes
ex 560=Westerly Nursing Home

602 Gasoline Pump
603 Diesel Pump

700 Series Codes- Clinics
ex 785= RI Renal Westerly

All vehicles have names rather than numbers. Any designation of American
and then a # is a supervisor. Dispatch Example Zeus- Responding 24,
Code 1 401 W. Town St. for the 10-45, 17 enroute.

C MED

Alpha	New Haven Fire
Bravo	Ansonia EMS
Charlie	New Haven AMR
Delta	Hamden
Echo	West Haven
Fox	Woodbridge
Golf	Milford
Hotel	Branford
India	North Branford
Juliettes	Oxford
Kilo	Derby
Lima	Bethany
Mikes	North Haven
Novembers	Bridgeport (Valley Area)
Oscars	Meriden Fire
Papas	Hunters Ambulance
Quebecs	East Haven
Romeos	New Haven Sharpe Team
Sierras	none
Tangos	Seymour
Unions	none
Victors	Shelton
Whiskeys	Wallingford
Xray	Madison
Yankees	Guilford
Zulus	VEMS Units

Statewide/Regional EMS

155.3850 PL 123.0 - Lifestar Dispatch/Ops
461.3875 PL 141.3 - Lifestar Crew/Ground ops
155.3400 PL 203.5 - Mednet
155.2800 PL 114.8 - AMR Tolland County/Enfield

463.000 CMED - Med 01
463.025 CMED - Med 02
463.050 CMED - Med 03
463.075 CMED - Med 04
463.100 CMED - Med 05
463.125 CMED - Med 06
463.150 CMED - Med 07
463.175 CMED - Med 08
462.950 CMED - Med 09
462.975 CMED - Med 10
453.025 CMED - MED 11 CMED TAC-1
453.075 CMED - MED 12 CMED TAC-2
453.125 CMED - MED 13 CMED TAC-3 & TIM 1
453.175 CMED - MED 14 CMED TAC-4 & TIM 2

PL 118.8 used by North Central	CMED
PL 192.8 used by Northwest	CMED
PL 179.9 used by Tolland County	CMED
PL 123.0 used by Southwest	CMED
PL 167.9 used by Southcentral	CMED
PL 131.8 used by N L County	CMED
PL 210.7 used Statewide	CMED
155.3400 - Countywide E.M.S.	CMED

New Haven

Level 1 (R1) Medical Response Tech/Fire Department First Responder
Level 2 (R2) Basic Life Support EMT Ambulance
Level 3 (R3) Heavy Duty rescue
Level 4 (R4) EMT Intermediate Ambulance or 4x4
Level 5 (R5) Paramedic Ambulance or 4x4

For Hartford Area they go like this

118 Alpha 9

118 Tax town whatever; Alpha Paramedic/ALS Advanced Life Support;
9 Unit 9