New York City Fire Department

10-Code

10-1  Call Your Quarters

10-2  Return To Your Quarters

10-3  Call The Dispatcher by Telephone

10-4  Acknowledged

10-5  Repeat Last Message

10-6  Stand By

10-7  Verify Address/Information with Source

10-8   Unit is In Service/Available

      Code 1 When Division Chief or Battalion Chief is in service in Chief's Vehicle from another firehouse.

      Code 2 When any Unit is on the air outside their response area.

10-9    Off the Air

10-10  Unit Location

10-11  Radio Test

10-12  Preliminary Report

10-13  Fire Marshall Needs Emergency Assistance

10-14  Roster Staffed Engine

    Used by Engine Company who only has 4 firefighters. In most situations, The Dispatcher will send an additional Engine.

10-18  Return All Units except the First Engine and First Truck.

10-19  Return All Units except the First Engine OR First Truck.

10-20  Units to Continue In With Reduced Speed.

10-21  Brush Fire

10-22  Outside Rubbish Fire

10-23  Abandoned/Derelict Vehicle Fire

10-24  Vehicle Fire

10-25  Manhole/Transformer Vault Fire

              Code 1- Fire has extended to a building

              Code 2- Fire of heavy smoke is issuing from manhole

              Code 3- Smoke is seeping from manhole.

10-26  Food On The Stove.

10-27  Compactor Fire

10-28  Fire or Emergency in the Railroad System

               Code 1- Subway System

               Code 2- Other Railroad System

10-31  Clogged Incinerator

10-32  Defective Oil Burner

10-33  Odor of Smoke

10-34  Sprinkler Emergency

               Code 1- Defective Sprinkler

               Code 2- Unwarranted Alarm

               Code 3- Sprinkler Activated by Heat

10-35  Alarm System Malfunction

               Code 1- Defective Alarm

               Code 2- Unwarranted Alarm

               Code 3- Recorded Alarm

10-36  Vehicle Emergency

               Code 1- Wash down of fuel/antifreeze

               Code 2-  Accident with no Injury or Wash down

               Code 3- Accident with Injury

               Code 4- Auto Extrication

10-37  Assist Civilian

               Code 1- Patient  Deceased

               Code 2- Patient With Life Threatening Injuries

               Code 3- Patient Injured/Non-Life Threatening Injuries

10-38    Carbon Monoxide Emergency

               Code 1- Detector Activation

               Code 2- Readings from 1-9 parts per million

               Code 3- Readings above 9 parts per million

               Code 4- No Detector Activation.

10-40    Emergency

               Code 1- Gas Emergency

               Code 2- Electrical Emergency

               Code 3- Water Condition

               Code 4- Steam Leak

10-41    Suspicious Fire

               Code 1- Occupied Structure of Vehicle

               Code 2- Unoccupied Structure

               Code 3- Unoccupied Vehicle

               Code 4- Vacant Structure

10-44    Request for an Ambulance to scene

10-45    Serious Injury to Civilian

               Code 1- Patient Deceased

               Code 2- Patient Suffering Life-Threatening Injury

               Code 3- Patient Seriously Injured

10-47    Request Police Response

10-48    Request Police Response on an Emergency Basis

10-51    Outside Activity Cancelled Due to Weather

10-60    Major Emergency Response

               (3 Engines, 2 Trucks, 3 Rescues including Rescue 3 with the Collapse Rescue], 5 Battalion Chiefs,

               1 Tactical Service Unit, HazMat 1, Field Communications

               Unit, Squad 1 with Technical Response Vehicle, 1 Division Chief and the Safety Chief)

10-70    Water Relay Required

10-75    Working Fire

               4 Engines, 2 Trucks, 1 Rescue, 1 Squad, 1 FAST Truck , 2 Battalion Chiefs and 1 Division Chief.

10-76    Working Fire in a High-Rise Office Building

10-77    Working Fire in a High-Rise Residential Building

10-84    Units Arrived at the Scene

10-85    Fire Marshals Request Immediate Police Assistance.

10-86    Foam Operation

10-91    Emergency Handled by Another Agency

10-92    False Alarm

10-99    Units will be operating for more than 30 minutes.