During 2000, with funding from the 9-1-1 board, all Lansing Fire department radio equipment was upgraded to multi-channel, programmable radios, equipped with transmitter identifiers for personnel safety  

Every fire station, fire apparatus, ambulance, fire officer, and command vehicle, are equipped with state-of-the-art radios to keep them accessible in any emergency.

All fire and EMS personnel are equipped with radio pagers for notification of emergencies, no matter where they are in the community. Sixteen pagers were replaced with new state-of-the art models, as part of our scheduled replacement program.

All fire personnel are also equipped with alpha-numeric messaging pagers, to be kept informed of important information that can not be transmitted over the radio to other agencies, in the event of a disaster of any type.

A computer network is being developed to link all four fire stations for faster and more efficient data transfer

Our new pumper is equipped with a headset system to allow for communication among the responding crew, as well as between the officer in charge of the apparatus and our    dispatch center.  It has proven to be such an improvement, that we are currently studying the feasibility of retro- fitting our current apparatus as well.

Additional communication’s equipment is planned for the communications center to improve our inter-operability with other agencies, in the event of a disaster of any type.