Emergency Medical Service

Tallahassee FL

Newsflash! Jan 1, 2004

Leon County is now running Emergency Medical Services for Tallahassee and Leon County FL. Below are the talkgroups that are being used by LCEMS:

• 8848 - Channel 1 - Initial Dispatch

• 8880 - Channel 2 - Working channel - after initial dispatch Paramedics will switch to the working channel

• 8912 - Channel 3 - talk around channel

• 8944 - Channel 4 - County stations will monitor this channel at night to be dispatched on calls. 

Paramedics are now housed at 3 city fire stations located in the county. They are Chaires (Fire Station 12), Woodville (Fire Station 13) and Blountstown Hwy (Fire Station 14). 

Stay tuned about the developments of the new County run EMS!

Emergency Medical Services (EMS) for Tallahassee Florida is run by Tallahassee Memorial Hospital (TMH). Although run by a private entity, EMS is provided for the citizens of Tallahassee Florida, Leon County tax free. No taxes are paid to support the service unlike many other counties in the State of Florida. TMH is also a secondary answering point for 911. When you dial 911 and are in the City of Tallahassee, your call is first answered by the Tallahassee Police Department. If the call is medical related, you are then switched through the 911 system to TMH which then answers the secondary 911 console. If you are in the county outside of city limits, the Leon County Sheriff's Department will answer the call and switch to TMH if medical related.

In addition to the local service, Life Flight responds to local emergencies as well as out to a radius of 90 miles and on occasion to other locations such as Emory Hospital in Atlanta GA and Pensacola Florida. Most of the daily flights involve the surrounding counties of Jefferson, Wakulla, Gadsden, Madison, Taylor, Calhoun, Liberty and the Georgia counties of Thomas, Grady and Seminole.

Frequencies used by EMS in Tallahassee are the 10 UHF MED channels. Refer to the table below. A description will follow