Broome county Fire and EMS has been divided up into 4 battalions. Battalion 1 is eastern Broome, 2 is south central, 3 is southwest, and 4 is northwest. Departments respond on their battalion's dispatch talkgroup. Binghamton FD is one of 5 fire departments that share the Battalion 2 dispatch talkgroup. Each fire department has their own private Ops 2 talkgroup. They are also assigned to the next available Ops talkgroup when they are dispatched. All departments responding to an incident will use that talkgroup for operations.