Fairfax County VA

[SrFireOfficial]

[quote name='VFN102' date='18 August 2010 - 11:19 PM' timestamp='1282186759' post='398077']

Thanks for the history lesson Paul!

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A mini-lesson on the box system.



Typically, the first-due station is the first one or two digits of the box number

Any box ending in "00" is the box where that particular fire station is located; i.e. box 2800 is where FS28 is located.

Any box ending in "90 something" is located in Fairfax County but a mutual aid company may be closer, i.e., Box 191 has units from 106 (Falls Church) closer than from FS01.

Any box beginning with a 4 is located within an incorporated city or town within Fairfax County: 4400's are in Herndon, 4300's and 4500's are in Fairfax City, 4200's in Vienna, 4600's are in the City of Falls Church (and Arlington County also dispatches calls with the city proper as 46something). The Town of Clifton is the exception to this rule

Any box with "50" something is on a limited access highway (Beltway, 66, Toll Road, Connector Road, GW Parkway and "the 95")

Any box with "60" something is on an off or on-ramp to a limited access highway.



A few box tweeks are happening to address other situations. 22 (Springfield) has an odd box number that escapes me now for the METRO/VRE station. 25 and 4 are sharing a box right on the line between their first-dues.



PM me if you need more.