8/26/25 Baltimore MD Box 41-20

[Signal73]

Fire Location: 6443 Bushey St

Multiple Calls

Reported as rear deck on fire

E-2 Act. 41,33,6(RID),26,23,27
T-20,3
BC-1,2

E41 OOS
E50 PO Test

Now reporting 2 houses on fire 4 calls on it

Fire showing in the rear

Heavy fire 1st floor rear

 

[entropychaser]

At the risk of looking like I missed a stage of toilet training;

Shouldn't this BCFD "Box" be 41-20?

 

[fdhistorian]

First due house is T20 - truck only house since E11 and T24 were disbanded and later T20 moved in (from E41)

 

[Signal73]

At the risk of looking like I missed a stage of toilet training;

Shouldn't this BCFD "Box" be 41-20?

I’m still trying to learn BCFD lol

 

[fdhistorian]

I’m still trying to learn BCFD lol

At the time of changing to CAD boxes and running assignments, stations were identified as "Station of Unit xx". Usually an Engine company but BFD still has Truck houses.

First due (at Bushey St) was 5714 Eastern Ave station. Originally, it was E11 and T24. Truck 24 was disbanded in 1995, In 1998, Truck 20 was moved there. Engine 11 was disbanded in 2012, leaving only Truck 20. So station became Station of Truck 20 for the CAD boxes. (Truck house boxes are actually called T boxes)

 

[entropychaser]

It seems that a CAD box should be defined as a contiguous geographic area that has the same "running assignment" up to however many alarm levels are desired. The next issue is if you want to identify this box by the nearest fire house or nearest engine company.

If BCFD is using the nearest firehouse, then this should be T20-41 to avoid confusion with Engine 20's CAD boxes across town.

This number still doesn't look right, saying Truck 20 has at least 41 CAD areas (not to mention the coincidence of 41-20 versus 20-41). Logically, as one gets closer to the city's boundaries, the larger the CAD box area becomes due the decreasing number of response routes. In this case, once you get past Engine 50 and Truck 20, everybody else is coming in via Eastern Avenue- unless Baltimore County is on the box via automatic aid. Why didn't they just keep the old street box numbers as phantom (dummy) boxes?

Engine 11 and Truck 24 were originally put out there to protect the hospital, Putting Truck 20 in there must have been a cultural shock to everyone.

Engine 41 was originally a Baltimore County company until the 1919 annexation. Truck Company 20 was put in service on January 1, 1920 with Engine 41. So 20 Truck was a fixture In Highlandtown (where the fire hydrants are painted in the colors of the Italian flag) for almost a hundred years.