The Tioga County Board Fire Commissioners has developed the numbering convention for the various departments and vehicles within those departments. The first digit designates the departments alphabetically: 100 series for Apalachin, 200 series for Berkshire, 300 series for Campville, etc. The tens digit defines the type of vehicle: 0 and 1 for pumpers; 2 for tankers; 3 for emergency vehicles;4 for special utility vehicles such as Campville's off-road vehicles, river rescue craft, and nighttime lighting unit; 5 for rapid response vehicles used to get the scene before the heavier, slower vehicles. The ones digit is for the individual vehicles of that type at a department. Therefore, at a mutual aid call scene, other departments will know if there is reference to "301", it is referring to Campville's lead pumper vehicle.
