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  2. Emergency service response codes - Wikipedia

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    Code 1: A time critical event with response requiring lights and siren. This usually is a known and going fire or a rescue incident. Code 2: Unused within the Country Fire Authority. Code 3: Non-urgent event, such as a previously extinguished fire or community service cases (such as animal rescue or changing of smoke alarm batteries for the ...

  3. Ten-code - Wikipedia

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    Ten-code. Ten-codes, officially known as ten signals, are brevity codes used to represent common phrases in voice communication, particularly by US public safety officials and in citizens band (CB) radio transmissions. The police version of ten-codes is officially known as the APCO Project 14 Aural Brevity Code.[1]

  4. New York City Fire Department - Wikipedia

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    There are fifty-five "10-codes" used by the Department. [62] There are also sub-codes specific to certain "10-codes." The FDNY is currently one of the last, large fire departments in the country using "10-Codes," as opposed to "plain English," to communicate information by radio.

  5. Multiple-alarm fire - Wikipedia

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    A 10-75 is a working fire (i.e., there is fire visible from a building), the 10-76/10-77 assignments are the alarm levels separate from the first alarm, second alarm, third alarms, etc. that are the standard fire department responses to fires in high-rise buildings. The signal 10-60 is a separate response to major disasters.

  6. List of New York fire departments - Wikipedia

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    Albany County. 1 – Albany Fire Department (New York) (8 Stations) 2 – Altamont Fire District Station 1. 3 – Berne Fire District Station 66,67 (2 Stations) 4 – Boght Community Fire District 1. 5 – Coeymans Fire District 1 (1 Station only) 6 – Coeymans Volunteer Fire Company Station 1. 7 – Cohoes F.D. Station 1 (3 Stations) 8 ...

  7. Yonkers Fire Department - Wikipedia

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    On November 23, 1976, the YFD adopted the 10-Code system, similar to the one used by the New York City Fire Department, for radio communications. With Engine 1 being decommissioned, its 1973 Mack CF was assigned to Engine Co. # 8.

  8. Firefighting in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A fire fighter's turnout gear staged in front of a fire engine. As of 2014, there were 1,134,400 firefighters in the United States (not including firefighters who work for the state or federal governments or in private fire departments). Of these, 346,150 (31%) are career and 788,250 (69%) are volunteer.

  9. List of emergency telephone numbers - Wikipedia

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    123 or 112. Emergency at sea: 129. Netherlands. 112. Text phone – 0800 81 12; Non-emergency police – 0900 88 44[a] or 0343 578 844; [66] Non-emergency police (text phone) – 0900 18 44; Suicide prevention – 113; Animal emergency – 144; Child abuse – 0900 123 12 30; [a] Anti-bullying hotline – 0800 90 50.