Hancock County (IN)
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EMS
SEALS Ambulance is a part of the Priority Ambulance family of companies. Seals Ambulance provides emergency and nonemergency transport services to communities throughout Central Indiana, including the greater Indianapolis area, as well as Johnson, Hamilton, Hancock, Madison, Bartholomew, Jennings, Lawrence, and Tipton. Known contracted to Johnson County, Hamilton County - City of Noblesville, Madison County - City of Anderson. In other areas, it operates as secondary and private ambulance services. They also do inter-facility transfers. The Corporate Headquarters is in Indianapolis. Parent Company, Priority Ambulance, is Headquartered in Kentucky. Priority Ambulance, under its primary label, does -911 services in Northwestern Indiana, but does do private ambulance services throughout the state. IU Health Lifeline no longer uses ERS systems for operations, and operates primarily on PTToC devices, which can not be monitored. They do Patient Reporting on the SAFE-T.
Fire/EMS
Fireground Usage
- Fireground 1: West of SR 9 and North of I 70
- Fireground 2: West of SR 9 and South of I 70
- Fireground 3: East of SR 9 all areas North and South
- Fireground 4
- Fireground 5
Of course these are not 100% exclusive, if two big fires happen in one area, two fireground frequencies would be used in the same area.
Fire Stations
- 410's: Shirley
- 420's: Greenfield
- 430's: Fortville
- 440's: Sugar Creek Twp-New Palestine
- 450's: Green Twp
- 460's: Jackson/Blue River Twp-Charlottesville
- 470's: Buck Creek Twp
- 480's: McCordsville
- 490's: Wilkinson
- 610's: Fountaintown (Brandywine Township for Hancock county.)
- Due to multi-county interaction Hancock county is county "4" so fire/ems units added a "4" to the front of their #. Shelby County is "6".
Law Enforcement
Unit Numbering
- 100-County Sheriff
- 200-Greenfield Police
- 300-Fortville Police
- 400-New Palestine Police
- 500-HCSO Reserves
- 600-DNR, Special task
- 790-Hancock County Corner
- 800-McCordsville Police
- 901-950-Shirley
- 951-999-Wilkinson
- ACx-Hancock County Animal Control
- 52-xxx: Indiana State Police (IN)
- Cumberland does not use a prefix anymore
- Previously Charlottesville Police used 7xx unit numbers.