Ocean City Emergency Services/Public Safety Communications Center handles all emergency calls for service for the Ocean City Volunteer Fire Company.

Located in the Public Safety Building at 65th St and Coastal Highway, the Enhanced 911 center operates a Harris(Formerly Com-Net Ericsson/GE) trunked 700MHz P25 digital radio system interlinked with the Maryland FIRST system.

 

There are members of the Ocean City Volunteer Fire Company that are also fire dispatchers for the communications center which provides great communication between the two organizations.

 

We are alerted through Motorola Minitor 6 VHF 4 channel and Unication G4 700MHz voice pagers.

 

We are equipped with Harris XG-75M & XG-25M mobile and XG-75pe portable radios.

 

There are multiple locations within town and in West Ocean City with various models of Federal Signal Corporation Civil Defense Sirens. These sirens are typically used to alert members for serious fire and rescue type emergencies and are automatically activated by the radio system from 7am-10pm. They can be activated at any time by order of a fire incident commander if needed. During times of city or county-wide emergency (tornado warning, hurricanes, evacuations, etc.) the sirens will be activated at any time (day or night) to warn the public of imminent danger. Please see below for an explanation of the different signals the siren system can make.