FIRE/POLICE/EMS STATION	IDENTIFIER	COMMENTS  (if blank, submit your comments to news@k3sam.com)
911 Communications Center	911	The HEART of Westmoreland County, in need of a Transplant.
911 From The Past	911	Old forms, frequency lists, identifiers from the past.  Items that I have found in my old files and other information submitted by readers of the Blah-g.
911 Photos (Inside 911, thanks to KDKA and GMan)	N/A	KDKA TV ran a story of something or other and here you will find some snap shots of INSIDE OUR 911.  Whatever the story was about, I do remember Dan Stevens was an expert at the subject... ahhh, I remember - How to Find A Better Job !
Adelphia Cable Co. (interesting)	N/A	Sucking The Westmoreland County Area of Almost All of It's Money... with a Twist.
Allegheny Power Co. (interesting)	N/A	Buy Your Own Generator and Save !  Oh, Interesting Tower Site...
Arnold EMS (newspaper photo)	101	Back in service, thank God !
Arnold VFD and Police	Fire Station 95 Police Station 9-30 Thru 9-37	Serving the Arnold Area.
Arnold VFD	95
Baggley VFD	108	No longer in service.  The members joined services with Hostetter VFD to make one bigger service which covers Unity Township and parts to Derry Township.
Blah-gers Work Room	N/A	Inside look of the Blah-ger's Shack.
Bradenville (Derry Twp.) VFD	71
Crown Communications Tower Site Toll Hill, Greengate Mall Area, Gbg.	System ID: 152 Tower ID: 102	One of our Current Twenty-Six Tower Sites Used By 911 To Broadcast Their 800 Mhz Choppy and Broken Radio Signal.
Darlington VFD	42	See what happens when you mix a Fire Chief with a 911 Dispatcher...
Crown Communications Tower Site Near the Latrobe ELKS, Latrobe, PA.	System ID: 152 Tower ID: 102	Another of the current 26 tower sites Used By 911 To Broadcast Choppy  and Broken Communications and Digi-Crap.  This site was photographed in Detail !
Derry Boro VFD	41
Eastern Derry Township Fire	92	Also Known As Millwood VFD for years.  Serves the Derry Township Area as well as the Westmoreland Co. / Indiana Co. Line, Torrance State Hospital and Chestnut Ridge Fires.
GMAN's Live Audio Feed (listen in)	N/A	For those of you without 800 Mhz Scanners, this link will allow you to listen to what his happening LIVE as it happens - Thanks to GMAN (special agent 007¼)
Latrobe VFD Company 1	113-1	Covering most of 1st Ward plus  Wide Area Salvage.
Latrobe VFD Company 2	113-2	The Central Station for Latrobe Fire.
Latrobe VFD Company 3 & 4	113-3	Hazmat and Vent, Covering the 3rd and 4th Wards.
Latrobe VFD Company 5	113-5	Rescue and Engine, covering Latrobe 5th Ward and County Rescue.
Latrobe VFD Company 6	113-6	Engine and Air, 6th Ward and County Air.
Latrobe Police Department	4-1 thru 4-4	Municipal Building Housing Latrobe Police and all City Government. Mutual Aid Greensburg has their Latrobe Base at this location.
Ligonier Valley Ambulance Service	706-710	This service covers the Borough of Ligonier, Ligonier Township, Laurel Mountain Borough, and parts of Fairfield Township; which equates to approximately 107 to 110 square miles of service area.
Ligonier VFD	43	Beautiful As Ever... Not Even An 800 Mhz Signal To Mess Up Their Beautiful Scenery
Lloydsville VFD	114	1st backup for Latrobe, they take care of a good part of Unity Township. Fully equipped Brush Team.
Lower Burrell / Kinloch VFD	54
Lower Burrell / Bonnaire VFD	69
Markle VFD	101
Murrysville Fire and Rescue	20
Mutual Aid Ambulance Service Greensburg Center (Main Station)	MAAS	Paid As You Go Taxi Service - Mutual Aid Ambulance Service (MAAS) is a BUSINESS FOR PROFIT, unlike most volunteer services in this area.  They cover Most of Westmoreland County were the Non-Profit Organizations are Not Set Up.  Also double coverage on some areas where Non-Profit Organizations are set up...
Mutual Aid Ambulance Service Derry (Satellite Station)	MAAS	Just another Pay As You Go Service Except Owned By The Same FOR-PROFIT Company.  (I honestly do not have anything against Mutual Aid with the exception that they are using the 800 Meggy Hurts Radio System for their VAN Transfers... All Damn Day Long.  Thus taking trunking frequency space away from people that need to use the Cyst-Em... Like the Courthouse Maintenance People !)
New Kensington VFD Company 1	56-1
New Kensington VFD Company 2	56-2
New Kensington VFD Company 3	56-3
New Kensington VFD Company 4	56-4
New Kensington VFD Company 5	56-5
PA State Police - Kiski	N/A
Previous Photo Pages (1)	N/A	For DSL/Broadband Users.  (No further updates planned for this page)
Previous Photo Pages (2)	N/A	For DSL/Broadband Users.  (No further updates planned for this page)
Staley Communications Breakdown	N/A - Ever	Insider Info - Actual photos of Staley Communications at work... Installing a digital siren activator... something you don't see too often (the work part, that is)
View Overlooking Latrobe, Derry, Ligonier and Ligonier Township	N/A	A Lesson , 800 Mhz 101.
Washington Township VFD	102	Nice lookin' Firehall with a Fire Department that's second to none.
Washington Township Police Dept.	5-50 thru 5-59	Established in 1953 as a one man operation, they are now a full time police department with 9 patrolmen, 6 full time and 3 part time.  They are the first department in Westmoreland Co. to carry Tasers .  WEBSITE
Waterford VFD	44	Nice Set Up, Friendly Folks !
Wilpen VFD	45	Back in the Beautiful Woods, Where 800 Mhz Signals Rarely Go...
Youngstown VFD	39	Covers Youngstown and part of Derry and Unity Townships.  PA. State is the police force that covers that area.

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Email your photos in .JPG format and I will post them.
At this time I would like to report to you that only GMan, "TopGun" from D5 PD, "Down in Flames" FP14-3 and Myself own digital cameras, or at least it would appear that way.  Well, at least the film is cheap !
Please include Fire Station, Police, or EMS company name along with your name for my records only.
Only photos of antennas and buildings, no human beings allowed.  Other interesting photos also considered including vehicle communication installations, nifty light bar setups, badges, DNA samples, etc...
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Last update on 05 July 2006
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