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Service de sécurité incendie de
Montréal
Fire Department

Last update:
Headquarters - 4040 Ave du Parc
Fire Prevention Office - 200 Bellechasse E
Training Centre - 6700 Notre Dame E
The SSIM/SPIM Annual Report is available from: SSIM, Affaires publiques, 4040 Av du Parc, Montreal QC, H2W 2S8
Channel Frequency Use
10-51 412.7625R Dispatch
10-52 412.4875R Administration
10-53 413.2625S Fireground
10-54 412.4875S Fireground
  410.6625S Common Tactical? (Urgences Santé, Police)
  163.5000 Pompiers Auxilliaires de Montréal / Montréal Auxiliary Firemen
Radio Codes
Station Address Apparatus
Engine Truck Command Other
2 10 Ch du Tour-de-L'isle, Ile Ste Helene
(April-October/Avril-Octobre)
202 (2019)      
3 1139 Ottawa
(corner Young)
203 403   8003
4 5260 Van Horne
(corner Trans Island)
604 404    
5 75 Ontario E
(corner St Domninique)
605 405 118/138 1005, 1605
8 11371 Notre Dame E
(ex-Montreal East)
608 3008   908, 8008
9 8100 boul St Michel
(corner Jarry E)
609 409   1409
10 1445 St Mathieu
(corner De Maisonneuve)
210 410    
13 3254 Ste Catherine E
(corner Dézéry)
213     513 ("Spiders"), 1413, 935
14 11575 - 26 Av, RDP
(corner Daniel-Dony)
614      
15 1590 Richardson
(corner Richmond)
215 415 (135')   1515, 1815
16 1041 Rachel E
(corner Parc Lafontaine)
216 716    
17 4240 Charleroi
(ex-Montréal-Nord Station 1)
217, 3017 417 124/144  
18 12012 boul Rolland
(ex-Montréal-Nord Station 2)
218 318   518
19 2000 De Lorimier
(Ontario E)
219, 2019 419, 7019    
20 920 St Urbain 220 720 ("Moles")   1520
21 6025 Lavoisier
(ex-St-Léonard)
221 421    
22 5455 Antoine-Dagenais
(ex-St-Léonard)
222 422    
23 523 place St Henri
(corner Notre Dame)
623 423 116/136 523, 1423
25 1212 Drummond 225 425    
26 2151 Mt Royal E
(corner Des Erables)
226     526
27 5353 Gatineau
(corner Marechal)
227 427   527 ("Spiders")
28 7650 Châteauneuf
(ex-Ville d'Anjou)
228 428 125/145 1428
29 5375 1-Av, Rosemount
(corner Masson)
229 429 122/142 1729, 1929
30 5 Laurier W/O
(corner St Laurent)
Montreal Auxiliary FD HQ and Fire Museum
(ex-St-Louis-de-Mile-End)
230 430   1230, 1330
31 7041 Ste Dominique
(corner Shamrock E)
631     8031
33 6040 Monk
(corner De Biencourt)
233 433   1533
34 5369 Cote St Antoine
(corner Prud'Homme)
234 734    
35 10825 Lajeunesse
(corner Gouin E)
235     535, 1535
36 7254 Notre Dame E
(corner Caty)
Shops / Division des services techniques (Atelier)
37 795 Jarry E
(corner St Hubert)
237     537
38 14201 Sherbrooke E
(corner 53 Av)
(ex-Pointe-aux-Trembles)
238, 638 738   538, 1838
39 2915 Monsabré
(corner Marseille)
239 739 ("Moles")    
40 8639 Pierre-De-Coubertin
(corner Pierre Tétreault)
640 440    
41 7405 Champagneur
(corner Ogilvy)
241 441    
42 4180 de Salaberry
(corner Guertin)
242 442   1842
43 1945 Fleury E
(corner Charton)
243 743    
44 12145 Boul Riviere Des Prairies
(corner Duplessis)
(ex-Riviere-des-Prairies)
244, 2044 444    
45 5100 Hochelaga E
(corner Vimont)
245 445 123/143 1645, 1845, 8045
46 4760 Cumberland
(corner Somerled)
246 446    
47 2111 St Zotique
(corner De Lorimier)
247 747 ("Moles")   1147, 1947
48 3616 Hochelaga
(corner Chambly)
248 748    
49 10 Chabanel W/O
(corner St Lawrence)
249 449 121/141  
50 6490 30th Ave, Rosemount
(corner Beaubien E)
250 450   550
51 550 Anciens-Combattants
(ex-Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue)
251 451    
52 300 Surrey
(ex-Baie d'Urfé)
652      
53 310 Beaurepaire
(ex-Beaconsfield)
253      
54 3048 boul St Charles
(ex-Kirkland)
254     854
55 401 boul St Jean
(ex-Pointe Claire)
255 455, 755 112/132 855, 5055
57 13795 boul Pierrefonds
(ex-Pierrefonds)
257, 2057 457   6057, 6657?
58 11 Commercial Centre
(ex-Roxboro)
258      
61 10 Sunnydale
(ex-Dollard-des-Ormeaux)
261 361, 461 111/131 861
62 155 ave Avro
(ex-Dorval Station 2)
262      
63 530 boul Bouchard
(ex-Dorval Station 1)
263 4063   8063
64 3175 Remembrance
(ex-Lachine)
264, 2064 464, 4064    
65 1300 Dollard
(ex-Lasalle)
265, 2065 465, 4065 115/135 1865, 1965 (cascade unit), 8065
66 4398 Lasalle Blvd
(ex-Verdun)
266, 2066 766   8066
67 911 René-Lévesque Blvd
(ex-Nun's Island, Verdun)
367      
71 5500 Bois-Franc
(ex-St Laurent Station 2)
271, 2071 771 113/133  
72 2727 Poirier
(ex-St Laurent Station 3)
272 472   1672
73 820 Saint-Germain
(ex-St Laurent Station 1)
273, 2073 473, 4073    
74 10 Roosevelt
(ex-Town of Mount Royal)
274, 2074 474 120/140  
75 40 St Just
(ex-Outremont)
275, 2075 475 119/139 875
76 19 Stanton
(ex-Westmount)
276, 2076 376, 476 158, 159 (Safety Chiefs) 876
77 114 Westminster N
(ex-Montreal West)
677      
78 6815 Cote St Luc Rd
(ex-Cote St Luc)
278, 2078 478 114/134  
79 5510 MacDonald Ave
(ex-Hampstead)
679 779    
Quints (300, 3000) are listed as "engines" if they are the only piece in a station or if there is also a truck of some sort with them.
"Moles" are the collapse rescue teams. "Spiders" are the high-angle rescue team.
Radio Codes
Pre-SSIM divisions & districts
Pre-May 1996 divisions & districts
Divisions & districts, c.1984
Closed Fire Stations

History

The Montreal Fire Department as it was in 1898 - courtesy Craig Brander

Picture archive from the City of Montréal. Various images, inlcuding alarm room, apparatus, stations.

Discussion List

SPIM-L - courtesy Jim Hay

Dispatching

Calls from the MUC 911 center are routed to the "centre de communications" located at fire headquarters on the east slope of Mount Royal. The ALI information from Bell Québec is automatically entered into the CAD system. In rare instances, the dispatcher must manually enter the address. The type of incident is then entered and the system decides the appropriate response. Once the data is entered, the system sends it over leased data lines to the appropriate fire house or apparatus (I don't know whether or not the old box circuits are used for this - certainly would make sense!).

All apparatus are equipped with mobile data terminals. These units appear to be ruggedized laptops. They are graphics-capable and can display maps generated by the CAD system. Function keys handle most common 10 codes (10-16, 10-17, 10-5) and others ("back in station", etc). Once any button is pushed, the unit's status is changed on a screen at fire alarm.

Street boxes removed: 1979. Last master box out of service: c.1987. Radio tapper out of service: c.1987.

The Alarm Room is very modern. However, in addition to the six fully equipped computerized work stations, the walls are lined with alarm receivers, there is a "pedestal" box in one corner, and, beneath the video projection screen (that can display any of the CAD screens, including maps), there is a paper tape telegraph register! Nice touch!

You can see in the images how large a room this is. The acoustics of this room are responsible for the distinctive sound of the SSIM dispatchers.

Pre-CAD "GIS" ... :-) Images from 4040 Parc are from 1996-08-21, so things may have changed. At the time, the workstations were running OS/2.

Typical Assignments

There are 4 categories of fire calls: a "2 and 1", "2 and 1 and a squad", "2 and 2 and a squad", and finally "3, 2, a squad and a chief". See Jim's page for an updated list of "Categories".


There is a 1954 National Film Board film entitled Montreal Fire Department. Seen it? It's worth calling them to borrow (since it's not online). It's a fifteen minute long episode of the CBC series On the Spot. Narrator is the late Fred Davis. Excellent B/W footage of telegraph alarm system, ancient tillered city-service ladders, etc. Summary of the Rescue Squad, which even back then had SCBA, compressed air saws and "pavement breakers", acetylene torches, and a surgical kit for use by physicians. Neat stuff. Seeing Box 345 come in on the circuit, then being retransmitted to the stations was awesome!

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