Request for 2025-2026 Township Money

[Chief 5]

To all, 

This information is from the Fire commissioner for the 2025-2026 township monies. 

Please provide me with lists as requested below and I will forward our gear and equipment needs. 

The town has asked for a list of all individuals that need gear with the 25 and 26 money. Also, I need a list of all SCBA and radio equipment each company wants to buy. Please get it to me as soon as possible. They keep changing how they want to do this and I’m getting frustrated with it rapidly.

At this point just quantities of everything with model numbers, please.

Barry Turner

Chief

Packanack Lake Fire Co #5

Wayne Fire Department

5 Lake Drive West

Wayne, NJ 07470

Cell:973-725-0327

Fire House: 973-694-2232

[Mike Leonard]

Gentlemen, 

As mentioned at the officers meeting, we’re in a unique situation that I don’t know if any other fire company has realized yet:

The issue:

Motorola has stopped producing pagers that operate on our Fire Dispatch frequency (500.8125). We are in what’s called T-Band and the new Minitor 7 pagers do not support it. After speaking with Motorola, they confirmed there is no plan to expand their pagers into T-band and no way to order more Minitor 6 pagers that support it. They have indicated that many departments are transitioning to issuing portable radios with pager functionality built-in.

Solutions:

The only solution that I’ve found to be a viable option without moving towards issuing portable radios (God help us if every firefighter in Wayne can talk on-air) is the Unication G1.  I’ve attached a quote from our regional vendor for (10x) G1 pagers with programming labor.

My recommendation:

With the quantity of new members coming in, the rapid decline of our Minitor 5 inventory, and no additional Minitor 6 pagers in-house, I’d like to buy 10x Unication G1 units to exceed the current inventory need and maintain an excess stock in anticipation of future equipment failure. An alternate option would be to order less, but unless we know we’ll be able to order 3-5 of these annually and have access to the money in a dependable timeline, I think utilizing the bonded money for an excess of inventory would be beneficial.

Radios

On the radio side, I’m not completely familiar with what we’ll need additionally once we’ve been issued the new radios. I assume we’ll be properly outfitted, but would like to review some data and inventory quantities on that regard.

Please let me know your thoughts on this as well as any other radio needs we should consider.

Capt5

[Chief 5]

Capt, 

We already have four Unication G3 pagers in service with a few members. The G1 is strictly analog paging, only. 

Originally, we went to the G3 for the dual purpose of Analog and future Digitial paging. 

I can leave a test pager for you to look at and try if you would like. 

Please advise, 

Barry

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[Mike Leonard]

Ah, good to know we need the G3 for digital. I’ll get an updated quote reflecting that model. Let’s discuss how many we feel is appropriate to bring into our inventory on this round. I know we have a few already and regardless of how we like them, this seems to be the only system supporting our dispatch band.

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