eriksdaddy wrote:
King County uses the two digit numbering system with the exception of Seattle and Bellevue.
Not quite correct. City of Snoqualmie is Station 281. Fall City is Station 271. Snoqualmie Pass is Station 291. Skykomish is Stations 295 and 296. Some of these numbers are from back when Control 10 existed. Fall City was originally Station 171, Snoqualmie Station 181, etc. Then when Zone 2 was created, they went up to 271, 281. Originally they used four digit numbers, so Engine 271 was "2711" and Aid 271 was "2713." No unit identifiers (i.e. engine, aid, tender) were used on the air; they only used numbers. They dumped that in the mid 90's and went back to calling them Engine, Aid, etc. Then Control 10 consolidated with Bellevue, and some of them kept the Station numbers. EF&R took the 70's (which had been vacated by Dist. 25 when they contracted with Renton) and the 80's.
Enumclaw uses 4 digit identifiers with the first two digits being 28, since they are King County District 28. And Port of Seattle still uses the old three digit numbering scheme that everybody else in the former Zone 4 started using in the early 90's and has since dropped when they went to Valley Com.
It's actually kind of amazing to think about how many times some Stations have changed numbers in the last 20 or so years. That information could easily take up a huge post of its own.