Fairfax County VA

[SrFireOfficial]

I will dovetail in here with a brief history lesson. Prior to the entire metro-DC area fire service making the migration to the COG designators, the Fairfax County volunteer-staffed units were designated with the leading digit being an 8 rather than the Fairfax County 4. The career staffed engine company at FS22 would be on the air as E422 while the volunteer staffed engine company would be known on the air as Engine 822 with the same logic applied to other functions in combination career-volunteer houses (BLS and ALS transport units). After Prince George's County (MD) adopted use of "8" as their COG radio designator i.e., Engine 812 from College Park, Fairfax County along with many of the other jurisdictions (Montgomery County in Maryland, Loudon and Prince William Counties in Virginia) with active volunteer departments in the COG region were forced to address how the "second out" piece from a station with multiple engines or multiple ALS/BLS transport units would be recognized. A number of factors had to be considered such as lettering of apparatus as well as software limitations for existing CAD systems before the "Bravo" solution was agreed upon by all the COG signatories.



And as an FYI, College Park (MD) VFD has inked a deal with Pierce for an Arrox XT 1250 gpm/500gal pumper and that Prince George's County has added on to the Arlington County FD Pierce order for 5-6 Pierce Arrow XT pumpers and two Arrow XT 105' RM ladders, one possibly going to College Park.