Hello! My name is Carson and I am apart of DC Metro Area Fire/Rescue on Mission-chief. We are a small alliance right now, with only a few members. We are looking for active and chill players who can take some jurisdictions and run them.
We are a realistic group, we strive to build each jurisdiction the most realistically it can get. Obviously we may run into some issues and have to improvise, but it's all in fun!
Before I get more in depth, I'd like to explain what is "DC Metro" and why you should join.
The DC (District of Columbia) Metropolitan Area is located on the East Coast of the United States. It includes the states of Virginia and Maryland, along with the District of Columbia.
The surrounding counties came together to create an agreement to help with incident coordination and responses. This agreement set up by the Metropolitan Washington Council of
Governments, would give a total of 15 jurisdictions a prefix to their unit numbers. Considering this area is pretty mutual aid heavy, this was needed. An example of the prefix in
action:
Let's say a reported structure fire is dispatched in box 10600 of Arlington County on the border of Fairfax, a typical rundown of that assignment would be as follows:
E106, E428, E108, E102, T106, TL401, R401, M106, BC112, BC111, CA114, EMS112, EMS404, SAF403, INV15
E - Engine
T - Truck
TL - Tower Ladder
R - Rescue
M - Medic
BC - Battalion Chief
EMS - EMS Supervisor
SAF - Safety Officer
INV - Fire Investigator
If you take a look at the numbers of every unit (besides the investigator) that are responding, they are in a 3 digit format. If you take out the first number in the sequence
and you look at the last two, that would be the company number without the agreement. For example the first due engine would be Engine 6 not Engine 106. There are 2
different counties responding to this call, Arlington and Fairfax. Arlington is designated the prefix of "1" for all of their units. Fairfax has a designated prefix of "4" for all of
their units. So using that, you can see that Fairfax is sending 5 units to the call in Arlington. So without even having to think officers and dispatch know who is coming from
where on certain calls.
The list of counties and their prefixes are found below:
000 - District of Columbia
100 - Arlington County
200 - Alexandria City
300 - Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (Airport, MWAA for short)
400 - Fairfax County, City, Fort Belivoir
500 - Prince William County, Quantico
600 - Loudoun County
700 - Montgomery County
800 - Prince George's County
900 - Frederick County
1000 - Charles County
1100 - Fauquier County
1200 - Culpeper County
1400 - Rappahannock County
1500 - Stafford County, Fredericksburg
Each county has sects that may be considered on a military base, or a city inside the county. They still
use the prefix designated for that county. MWAA is in two different places. MWAA holds authority over
Dulles International Airport located in Chantilly, Virginia. MWAA also holds authority over Ronald Reagan
National Airport located in Arlington, Virginia.
Members who join are expected to build their jurisdiction they are assigned as realistically as possible. One thing
you are allowed to do is do multiple jurisdictions, but we will only allow you to do so once you've shown to us that
you are active. Remember, a county we reserve for you could be someone else's. If you want to request a county
to expand into, just shoot me (CZick) or Ben (benfdlr14) a message on Missionchief. We should respond in a day or so.
ANYWAYS! Back onto the whole recruitment side of things, The following is what we want out of our members:
REQUIREMENTS:
- Active (Play everyday, exceptions can be made)
- Friendly (Self explanatory, don't be a jerk)
- Sharing (We do a lot of mutual aid, so if someone requests mutual aid don't blow them off)
- Follow Our Rules (duh)
These are the basis for more rules, I can't think of any others right now.
The following list is of counties are either vacant or reserved/filled:
JURISDICTIONS
000 - District of Columbia (DC) - VACANT
100 - Arlington County & Fort Myer (VA) - VACANT
200 - Alexandria City (VA) - VACANT
301 - MWAA/Reagan National (VA) - VACANT
302/303/304 - MWAA/Dulles International (VA) - Carson
400 - Fairfax County, City of Fairfax, & Fort Belvoir (VA) - Carson
500 - Prince William County, City of Manassas, City of Manassas Park & MCB Quantico (VA) - Ben
600 - Loudoun County (VA) - Carson
700 - Montgomery County (MD) - Jalen
800 - Prince George's County (MD) - Carson (Alt)
SURROUNDING JURISDICTIONS
900 - Frederick County (MD) - VACANT
1000 - Charles County (MD) - Carson
1100 - Fauquier County (VA) - Ben
1200 - Culpeper County (VA) - VACANT
1400 - Rappahannock County (VA) - VACANT
1500 - Stafford County & City of Fredericksburg (VA) - Ben
JURISDICTIONS OUTSIDE 1500
Anne Arundel County (MD) - VACANT
Spotsylvania County (VA) - VACANT
Howard County (MD) - VACANT
We can (and will) add more jurisdictions that are outside of the metro area, but can still serve as mutual aid to counties that are nearby.
(example: Baltimore County & City.)
Also we will post in the alliance board when storms will happen.
To help even further with mutual aid, we add a prefix of letters in front of each unit. For example an engine from Fairfax County would be
"FFX Engine 401". Each prefix is between 2-4 letters. We make the prefixes whatever just makes sense. I'll dm those that are interested in
joining more information about the letter prefix.
For those who have finally read thru this giant message. If you still feel like joining, shoot me a private message, friend me on Missionchief
and then message me there. You can also post in the thread saying you'd like to join and I can contact you from there. I will discuss more details
and final touches at that point.
Our Group name is "DC Metro Area Fire/Rescue"
Hope to see some of you applicants join us in our alliance! 