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Public Safety Frequencies
State of California  

 

 

 

 

 

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Terms
OES - Office of Emergency Servicies
SMARS - State-wide Mutual Aid Radio System
CLEMARS - CA. Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Radio System
NALEMARS - National Law Enfroc. Mutual Aid Raido Sys.
CALCORD - California On-Scene Coordination Channel
FIREMARS - Fire Mutual Aid Radio System



Most Commonly Used Frequencies

154.160 MHz    Office of Emergency Services, Fire Frequency
154.220 MHz    Office of Emergency Services, Fire Frequency
154.920 MHz    CLEMARS - The California Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Radio System, is a mutual aid frequency for law enforcement agencies.
156.075 MHz    CALCORD - California Coordination, is used as an on scene tactical frequency with multiple public saftey agencies are present.
154.280 MHz    White Fire 1, is a tactical frequency that can be used in large mutual aid incidents or small single agency incidents.
154.265 MHz    White Fire 2, is a tactical frequency that can be used in large mutual aid incidents or small single agency incidents.
154.295 MHz    White Fire 3, is a tactical frequency that can be used in large mutual aid incidents or small single agency incidents.
154.295 MHz    FIREMARS - Fire Mutual Aid Readio Systems - Tactical frequency for large mutial aid fires, also frequently used as an input for White Fire 3
169.125 MHz    CA Travel Net - USFS frequency used by CDF and the USFS when strike teams are traveling to incidents throughout the state.



Office of Emergency Services - OES Fire

OES FIRE has three purposes. First, it is used to coordinate between the 65 Fire Operational Area Mutual Aid Coordinators, the 6 Regional Mutual Aid Coordinators, and OES Fire & Rescue Branch's EOC at HQ in Sacramento. Second, it is used between OES Fire & Rescue HQ and the OES Fire field staff [52xx units] enroute to or at major emergencies. Third, it is used to coordinate any and all of the above points with the 130+ OES Engines and support vehicles located in local fire departments around the state.  

154.1600 - OES 1

154.2200 - OES 2


White Fire & FIREMARS

The WHITE FIRE frequencies (not "OES White") are FCC-designated as "intersystem" channels used for multiple agency fire coordination operations.  

154.2800 - White Fire 1
154.2650 - White Fire 2
154.2950 - White Fire 3
868.9875 - FIREMARS
866.9125 - FIREMARS 2

 



CESRS
CESRS has 21 interconnected sites around the state. It is used for radio coordination between OES staff (51xx and 51xxx units) and facilities in Sacramento, Fresno, Los Alamitos, Oakland, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Barbara; and between Regional Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs) [in Oakland, Los Alamitos, and Sacramento] and around 30 county EOCs. Other users of CESRS are the facilities of the Calif. Youth Authority, and the Department of General Services' Telecommunications Division units ("Area xx", and "DC-xxxx" units), who maintain it all.

153.7550 - OES CESRS - PL 192.8



CLEMARS
There are CLEMARS frequencies in each Public Safety radio band. CLEMARS is used for on-scene Law Enforcement communications. The nationwide Law frequency of 155.475 is included in the CLEMARS plan.

154.9200 - Channels 1
154.9350 - Channels 2
155.4750 - Channels 3 - also NALEMARS
460.0250 - Channels 4 & 5
39.4600 - Channels 6 & 7
868.5125 - Channels 8 & 9
484.2375 - Channels 22 - Los Angeles Basin
866.2000 - Channels 20 & 21 - Northern California



CALCORD
Mobile-only channel for use on scene as a command channel.

156.0750 - CALCORD

 



FIREMARS
The FCC established an advisory committee (the National Public Safety Planning Advisory Committee, or "NPSPAC") to recommended rules for the assignment and utilization of the new 800 spectrum. NPSPAC recommended (and the FCC adopted) 5 Interoperability channels - a calling channel, and 4 tactical. In negotiating the border interface zones with Canada and Mexico, these 5 pairs were also adopted by those countries for Public Safety interoperability use. The channels, therefore, are known as I-CALL (866.0125), and I-TAC 1 thru 4 (866.5125, 867.0125, 867.5125, and 868.0125 respectively). Under the plans developed by California's two Planning Regions, OES administers the use of these channels.

868.9875 - FIREMARS 1
866.9125 - FIREMARS 2
For agencies using 800 MHz systems.
National Plan 800 MHz - Interoperability Channels
866.0125 - I-Call
866.5125 - I-Tac1
867.0125 - I-Tac2
867.5125 - I-Tac3
868.0125 - I-Tac4



US Forrest Service and California Division of Forrestry AIR Frequencies

Air Tactics Frequencies

166.6750 - Air Tactics 1 - USFS

169.1500 - Air Tactics 2 - USFS

169.2000 - Air Tactics 3 - USFS

151.2800 - Air Tactics 4 - CDF Blue

151.2950 - Air Tactics 5 - CDF Green

151.3100 - Air Tactics 6 - CDF Yellow

130.2000 - Air Tactics 7

131.4750 - Air Tactics 8

131.5750 - Air Tactics 9

Air Victor Net Frequencies

122.9250 - Air Victor 1

122.9000 - Air Victor 2

122.9750 - Air Victor 3

122.8500 - Air Victor 4

123.0750 - Air Victor 5

123.0500 - Air Victor 6

135.9750 - Victor Net Ramona

122.2250 - Victor Net Fresno

122.7500 - Victor Net Hollister

123.0750 - Victor Net Paso Robles

Air to Ground Frequencies

151.2200 - CDF Red

122.975 or 123.975 - USFS

168.0500 - USFS

170.0000 - USFS

168.2000 - BLM

167.9500 - BLM

Helicoptor Frequencies

123.0250 - CDF Air Victor Net - Helicoptors

119.9500 - USFS Heliport Air Traffic Control

123.0500 - USFS Heliport Air Traffic Control

Other Air Frequencies

168.6250 - Guard 1 - USFS Air Dipatch

151.3550 - Guard 2 - CDF Command 1

118.9500 - USFS Air Tactics

168.5500 - BLM Air Tactics

123.9750 - Base Operations

135.9500 - Federal Tanker Operations

131.4750 - BLM AIR

167.9500 - BLM AIR

General Aviation Frequencies - CDF/USFS Back Ups

122.9250 - Air Attack Base to Aircraft.

122.9000 - Routine Air Traffic.

122.8500 - Routine Air Traffic.

Preassigned USFS Air Tactics - Per National Forest/Park

Air Tactics 1 - CNF, ENF, INF, KNF, LNF, LPF, BBD, NOD, LNP

Air Tactics 2 - MNF, PNF, BDF, SQF, STF, TMU, KNP, YNP

Air Tactics 3 - ANF, MDF, SRF, SHF, SNF, TNF, HIA, BNP, SMP

The USFS and CDF share the above air to air tactical frequencies. In southern California FIRESCOPE area USFS does all the air dispatching.

 

 


US Forrest Service 

Region 5 - California

166.5875 - Dispatchers Net North Zone

164.9125 - Dispatchers Net South Zone

169.1250 - Region Calling North & South - "CA Travel Net"

415.3750 - Administrative Net

468.6250 - Air Net

170.0000 - Air to Ground

168.2000 - Firefighting

38.5800 - Fire Service Net

170.5000 - Job Site

166.1250 - Law Enforcement Net

Fire Nets

164.1750 - Klamath NF

168.1250 - Inyo NF

168.6750 - Sequoia NF

168.7250 - Six Rivers NF

168.7500 - Modoc NF, Cleveland NF, Stanislaus NF

168.7750 - Tahoe NF

169.1750 - Mendocino NF

169.8750 - Toiyabe NF

169.9500 - Angeles NF

170.5500 - Los Padres NF, Plumas NF

171.4750 - San Bernadino NF, Sierra NF

171.5250 - El Dorado NF

171.5750 - Lake Tahoe Basin Mngmt Unit

171.3750 - Shasta - Trinity NF

172.2250 - Lassen NF

Fire Cache

168.0500 - Tactical T-1

168.2000 - Tactical T-2

168.6000 - Tactical T-3

173.9125 - Tactical T-4

173.9625 - Tactical T-5

173.9875 - Tactical T-6

North Zone Dispatch

36.7500 - Dispatch

36.9700

41.7900

46.9700

38.8500

38.7500

 

 


 

 California Division of Forrestry - CDF

 

CDF Command Nets

151.3550 - CDF Command Net 1

151.2650 - CDF Command Net 2

151.3400 - CDF Command Net 3

151.4000 - CDF Command Net 4

151.3700 - CDF Command Net 5

151.2500 - CDF Command Net 6

151.4600 - CDF Command Net 7

151.4450 - CDF Command Net 8

151.1750 - CDF Command Net 9

151.1900 - CDF Command Net 10

CDF PL Tones

110.9 - Tone 1

123.0 - Tone 2

131.8 - Tone 3

136.5 - Tone 4

146.2 - Tone 5

156.7 - Tone 6

167.9 - Tone 7

103.5 - Tone 8

100.0 - Tone 9

107.2 - Tone 10

114.8 - Tone 11

127.3 - Tone 12

141.3 - Tone 13

151.4 - Tone 14

162.2 - Tone 15

192.8 - Tone 16

 

CDF Tactical Nets

151.1450 - CDF Tac 1

151.1600 - CDF Tac 2

151.1750 - CDF Tac 3

151.1900 - CDF Tac 4

151.2500 - CDF Tac 5

151.3250 - CDF Tac 6

151.3400 - CDF Tac 7

151.3700 - CDF Tac 8

151.3850 - CDF Tac 9

151.4000 - CDF Tac 10

151.4450 - CDF Tac 11

151.4600 - CDF Tac 12

151.4750 - CDF Tac 13

159.2250 - CDF Tac 14

159.2700 - CDF Tac 15

159.2850 - CDF Tac 16

159.3150 - CDF Tac 17

159.3450 - CDF Tac 18

159.3600 - CDF Tac 19

159.3750 - CDF Tac 20

159.3900 - CDF Tac 21

159.4050 - CDF Tac 22

159.4500 - CDF Tac 23

 

CDF Unit 11 - Mendocino

151.3850 - MEU Local

151.1600 - Tac 2

151.1750 - Tac 3

151.3250 - Tac 6

151.4450 - Tac 11


CDF Unit 12 - Humboldt & Del Norte

151.2500 - HUU Local

151.1750 - Tac 3

151.3400 - Tac 7

151.4000 - Tac 10

CDF Unit 14 - Sonoma,Lake & Napa

151.3400 - LNU East

151.4600 - LNU West

151.1600 - Tac 2

151.2500 - Tac 5

 

CDF Unit 16 - Santa Clara

151.4450 - SCU Local

151.1600 - Tac 2

151.3250 - Tac 6

151.3850 - Tac 9

151.4000 - Tac 10

 

CDF Unit 17 - San Mateo & Santa Cruz

151.3700 - CZU Local

151.1750 - Tac 3

151.3250 - Tac 6

151.4000 - Tac 10

 

CDF Unit 21 - Butte

151.4000 - BTU Local

154.1900 - CDF / Butte County Fire Net

151.2500 - Tac 5

151.3850 - Tac 9

151.4450 - Tac 11

151.4600 - Tac 12

 

CDF Unit 22 - Lasson & Modoc

151.2500 - LMU Local

151.1750 - Tac 3

151.4000 - Tac 10

 

CDF Unit 23 - Nevada, Yuba & Placer

151.3250 - NEU West

154.1300 - NEU East

154.3550 - Western Placer County Dispatch

151.1600 - Tac 2

151.2500 - Tac 5

151.3850 - Tac 10

 

CDF Unit 24 - Shasta & Trinity

151.1600 - SHU Local

151.3850 - Tac 9

151.4450 - Tac 11

151.4600 - Tac 12

CDF Unit 25 - Tehema & Glenn

151.3700 - TGU Local

151.1750 - Tac 3

151.1900 - Tac 4

CDF Unit 26 - Siskiyou

151.3250 - SKU Local

151.1900 - Tac 4

151.3400 - Tac 7

151.3700 - Tac 8

151.3850 - Tac 9

151.4000 - Tac 10

151.4450 - Tac 11

151.4600 - Tac 12

 

CDF Unit 41 - Tulare

151.1900 - TUU Local

151.1750 - Tac 3

151.3700 - Tac 8

 

CDF Unit 42 - Madera, Mariposa & Merced

151.4600 - MMU Local

151.3400 - Tac 7

151.3700 - Tac 8

151.4000 - Tac 10

 

CDF Unit 43 - Fresno & Kings

154.4450 - CDF/Fresno County Dispatch

153.8900 - Fresno County Primary Response

151.3850 - FKU Local 1 - Primary Response

151.1600 - FKU Local 2 - Secondary Response (Administration)

151.3250 - Tac 6

151.3400 - Tac 7

151.3700 - Tac 8

 

CDF Unit 44 - Tuolumne & Calaveras

151.1750 - TCU Local

151.1600 - Tac 2

151.3700 - Tac 8

 

CDF Unit 45 - El Dorado & Amador

151.1900 - AEU Local

151.1600 - Tac 2

151.3700 - Tac 8

 

CDF Unit 46 - San Benito & Monterey

151.2500 - BEU Local

 




California's OES Law Enforcement and Fire & Rescue Mutual Aid Systems


The Governor's Office of Emergency Services (OES) is the state's Emergency Management agency, and coordinates California's Master Mutual Aid system.  Two major sub-systems are the Law Enforcement
and the Fire & Rescue Mutual Aid systems.

OES owns and operates 3 interconnected Mobile Relay radio networks for Mutual Aid coordination, and oversees a number of communications channels for field level coordination purposes.  All of this is known as "SMARS" [Statewide Mutual Aid Radio System].

CESRS - California Emergency Services Radio System - 153.755 MHz  [154.980 input]
CESRS has 21 interconnected sites around the state (and 4 stand alone radios not interconnected).  It is used for radio coordination
between OES staff (51xx and 51xxx units) and our facilities in Sacramento, Fresno, Los Alamitos, Oakland, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Barbara; and between our Regional Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs) [in Oakland, Los Alamitos, and Sacramento] and around 30 county EOCs.  Other users of CESRS are the facilities of the Calif. Youth Authority [for their direction & control purposes], and the Department of General Services' Telecommunications Division units ("Area xx", and "DC-xxxx" units), who maintain it all.

CLERS - California Law Enforcement Radio System CLERS is the Law Enforcement 'dispatcher to dispatcher' mutual aid network, and consists of 26 'cells' covering the state.  Some areas (like the East Sierra / Owens Valley area and Ukiah / Clearlake) are served by direct drops off the state microwave system.  Otherwise, the users are served by a VHF or UHF repeater in their area.  Some areas (Contra Costa County, for example) are really active; others are not so active day-to-day.  CLERS also serves as the State's distribution network for Emergency Alert System (EAS) program feeds, and is occasionally used by CHP aircraft to coordinate with their operations bases.

OES FIRE and Rescue Radio Network - 154.160 and 154.220
OES FIRE has three purposes.  First, it is used to coordinate between the 65 Fire Operational Area Mutual Aid Coordinators, the 6 Regional Mutual Aid Coordinators, and OES Fire & Rescue Branch's EOC at HQ in Sacramento.  Second, it is used between OES Fire & Rescue HQ and the OES Fire field staff [52xx units] enroute to or at major emergencies.  Third, it is used to coordinate any and all of the above points with the 130+ OES Engines and support vehicles located in local fire departments around the state.

OES FIRE, with 22 sites, is the state's oldest technology repeater system (lowband input, highband output), although we are in the process of converting the network to VHF-Hiband only.  Due to various factors, this has not been a 'clean' process.  As a result,  we have a hodge-podge of frequency and access tone combinations [and multiple channel names, unfortunately] in place throughout the network.  We are hoping for funding next fiscal year (starting July 1, 2000) to replace the 70+ base stations in the network, which will allow us to 'retire' the 33 MHz inputs (the mobile and handheld fleet is all VHF-Hiband) and bring the name nomenclature back in line.

CLEMARS - Calif. Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Radio System
There are CLEMARS frequencies in each Public Safety radio band (except the 220-222 MHz band).  CLEMARS is used for on-scene Law Enforcement communications.  The nationwide Law frequency of 155.475 is included in the CLEMARS plan.


CALCORD  -  California On-scene Coordination Channel  (156.075)
CALCORD is a mobile-only channel for use on scene as a command channel. Yes, it is also Coast Guard channel 61A, but we have it licensed out of the old Highway Maintenance pool.  No base stations are allowed (FCC regulation).


WHITE FIRE frequencies 
The WHITE FIRE frequencies (not "OES White") are used for multiple agency fire coordination operations.  By FCC rules, base stations are permitted on WHITE FIRE 1 (154.280) only [except L.A. County Fire has a waiver for 154.295, as they were there before the FCC designated the frequency as "intersystem"].


The old OES "FireMARS" system (153.830 in, 154.295 out, using handhelds and portable repeaters) is dead.  The BART UNDERGROUND 153.770/154.295) will disappear with BART's move to 800.

STACOM -  "STAte COMmunications", AKA "Operation SECURE"] (HF)
Under "Operation SECURE" (State's Emergency Communications Using Radio Effectively), the FCC established frequencies in the 2-10 MHz range for State Government use.  Each state can license up  to 10 channels for intra- and inter-state emergency management communications.  OES and CALTRANS use these frequencies, along with selected federal and local EOC sites in remote areas for an additional communications path when needed.  Because of some confusion caused by the "SECURE" name, we call this network "STACOM".  The network uses standard SSB for comms.


 

CLEMARS Utilization

CLEMARS is the California Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Radio System and is licensed to the state and administered by OES. Channels include 154.920, 154.935 (low-power), 155.475, 460.025 as well as low-band and 800 MHz channels. Uses are classified and prioritized. Some channels, like 154.920 and 460.025, may be used on a regular daily basis as a secondary channel, but the channel must be relinquished to mutual aid users. (There is no similar authorization for regular daily use of the CALCORD frequency.)

 

Acronyms

CALCORD

California On-scene Coordination Channel

CESRS

California Emergency Services Radio System

CLEMARS

California Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Radio System

CLERS

California Law Enforcement Radio System

EAS

Emergency Alert System

EOC

Emergency Operations Center

FIREMARS

Fire Mutual Aid Radio System

NALEMARS

National Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Radio System

OES

Office of Emergency Services

SMARS

Statewide Mutual Aid Radio System

 

OES Radio Plan

Description

Channel

Input

Output

Tone

CLEMARS VHF

GOLD-1

 

154.9200

 

CLEMARS LOWPOWER (10 WATT)

GOLD-2

 

154.9350

 

NALEMARS

GOLD-3

 

155.4750

none

CLEMARS

GOLD-4

 

460.0250

 

CLEMARS

GOLD-5

465.0250

460.0250

 

CLEMARS

GOLD-6

 

39.4600

156.7

CLEMARS

GOLD-7

45.8600

39.4600

156.7

CLEMARS

GOLD-8

 

868.5125

156.7

CLEMARS

GOLD-9

823.5125

868.5125

156.7

CLEMARS

GOLD-20

 

866.2000

156.7

CLEMARS

GOLD-21

821.2000

866.2000

156.2

CLEMARS

GOLD-22

 

484.2375

156.2

FIREGROUND

480 FIREGROUND

 

487.2375

156.7

LA CO SMALL CITIES

 

487.2125

484.2125

167.9

CALCORD

 

 

156.0750

none

FIRE MUTUAL AID

WHITE-1

 

154.2800

none

FIRE MUTUAL AID (Mobiles only)

WHITE-2

 

154.2650

none

FIRE MUTUAL AID (Mobiles only)

WHITE-3

 

154.2950

none

FIREMARS

 

823.9875

868.9875

156.7

FIREMARS D

 

 

868.9875

156.7

FIREMARS 2

 

821.9125

866.9125

156.7

FIREMARS 2D

 

 

866.9125

156.7

OES 1

 

 

154.1600

 

OES 1a

 

159.1350

154.1600

 

OES 1b

 

159.1950

154.1600

 

OES 2

 

 

154.2200

 

OES 2a

 

159.1350

154.2200

 

OES 2b

 

159.1950

154.2200

 

CESRS

REPEAT

154.9800

153.7550

 

CESRS

DIRECT

 

153.7550

192.8

NPSPAC

I-CALL

821.0125

866.0125

 

NPSPAC

I-TAC-1

821.5125

866.5125

 

NPSPAC

I-TAC-2

822.0125

867.0125

 

NPSPAC

I-TAC-3

822.5125

867.5125

 

NPSPAC

I-TAC-4

823.0125

868.0125

 


NOTES:

  1. BLANKET AUTHORITY FOR THE USE OF THESE CHANNELS BY PUBLIC SAFETY ENTITIES IF NOT AUTOMATICALLY GRANTED. CONTACT THE OES TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTION ON 916.845.8630 FOR SYSTEM ELIGIBILITY / USE AGREEMENT INFORMATION.
  2. GOLD-20/21 AND FIREMARS 2/2D ARE NOT USABLE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (Northern Planning Region only channel) Northern California is North of the line making up the north edge of San Luis Obispo, Kern, and San Bernardino Counties.
  3. GOLD-22 and 480 Fireground are usable only within 50 miles of Los Angeles City Hall as per FCC Regulations.