Hi, I try to build as realistically as possible, and I'm Belgian too! It takes quite a while to find everything online, it's pretty well hidden
But over the years, I've gathetered quite some information:
- fire department: This site was up-to-date till 2020 or so, not really recent but it's a good base to start off. You'll find all the fire departments in the different provinces and zones
- medical: the locations of the hospitals, ambulance services, emergency doctors (MUG) and nurses (PIT), you'll find at the site of the government, scroll to the excell sheets at (2) & (3). At Wikipedia, you'll find a list of all the hospitals aswell, with an indication of the number of beds, so you can have an estimate of how big the facility is. (Keep in mind that the ambulance only transports patients to the Algemene Ziekenhuizen (AZ) en Universitaire Ziekenhuizen (UZ) when it says 'Ja' at 'Spoeddienst' in the tables)
- police: I haven't found up-to-date lists of vehicles, but Wikipedia shows a correct list of all the police zones in Belgium. In this document you see a list of all the Belgian villages with at the right columns the name of the police zone (PZ NAAM) and the type of zone (TYPO PZ). It shows a number between 1 and 5, where 1 are the biggest zones (Ghent, Antwerp, Brussels...) and 5 the smallest. I buy my vehicles based on which number the police zone has. Note that that's only the local police, there's also the federal police with departments in every province capital.
- of course, as stated above: here at the forum, you'll find some information aswell (especially the medical vehicles are up-to-date)
- Because of my job at the ambulance service, I'm quite familiar with the official call names for the different vehicles, facilities and departments, but it's quite a technical explanation (but you can always choose to do your own of course haha)
- Over the years, I've made a database with all the vehicles of the Red Cross, Flemish Cross and Civil Protection based on lots of online research and stalking on social media hahaha. I'm willing to share it if you're interested, but maybe it's easier to first start with the 'basics' ![]()
Quite an explanation
But feel free to hit me up if you have other questions ![]()