Portage County (OH)

City of Ravenna Dispatch Center

The dispatch center is new and is based in the Motorola MCC 5500 console system. The new system went into service during the first full week of October 2010. Fire Comm was taken out of service at the same time during a co-ordinated cut over. The new dispatch center is owned and operated by the City of Ravenna.

The following agencies are dispatched by the City of Ravenna Dispatch Center:

• Ravenna Police Department

• Charlestown Fire Department
• Deerfield Fire Department
• Edinburg Fire Department
• Palmyra Fire Department
• Paris Fire Department
• (City of) Ravenna Fire Department
• Ravenna Twp Fire Department
• Rootstown Fire Department

Fire Department Radio Template

Generic Portage County FD Radio Template

With the exception of F1 all others are CSQ.

F1	xxx.xxx	Unique Department Dispatch Frequency
F2	154.235	Alternate Dispatch/OPs
F3	153.830	Water shuttle
F4	154.280	Fireground/ TAC
F5	155.805	EMA

Fire Department Unit Numbering (Countywide)

11xx	Atwater FD (dispatched by Firecom)
12xx	Brimfield FD (dispatched by Firecom)
13xx	Charlestown Twp FD (dispatched by Ravenna City FD)
14xx	Deerfield FD (dispatched by Firecom)
15xx	Edinburg FD (dispatched by Firecom)
16xx	Garrettsville Freedom Nelson JFD (self-dispatched)
17xx	Hiram FD (self-dispatched)
18xx	Kent FD (self-dispatched)
19xx	Mantua Shalersville FD (100s when running in their own district)
20xx	Palmyra Twp VFD (dispatched by Firecom)
21xx	Paris Twp FD (dispatched by Firecom)
22xx	Randolph Twp VFD (dispatched by Stow FD)
23xx	Ravenna City FD (self-dispatched)
24xx	Ravenna Twp FD (self-dispatched)
25xx	Rootstown FD (dispatched by Ravenna City FD)
26xx	Streetsboro FD (self-dispatched)
27xx	Suffield Twp FD (self-dispatched)
28xx	Windham FD (self-dispatched)
31xx	Brady Lake FD (dispatched by Firecom)

• Aurora FD (Does not participate in County Numbering)

FireCom Channels

• 151.475 (210.7 PL) / 158.895 (210.7 PL) - Firecom Central
• 151.475 (210.7 PL) / 158.895 (067 DPL) - Firecom East
• 151.475 (210.7 PL) / 158.895 (114.8 PL) - Firecom West

Mantua Fire Department Unit Numbers

• 103 - Pumper (Quint)
• 104 - Pumper
• 105 - Tanker
• 107 - Ambulance
• 108 - Ambulance
• 109 - Ambulance
• 110 - Brush Fire Unit
• 111 - Chief's car
• 112 - Technical Rescue Bus

Police Department Unit Numbers

1xx	Portage County SO
2xx	Kent PD
3xx	Kent State University PD
4xx	Ravenna City PD
5xx	Streetsboro PD
6xx	Aurora PD
7xx	Windham PD
8xx	Hiram PD
9xx	Garrettsville PD
10xx	Mantua PD
11xx	Brady Lake PD
14xx	Brimfield Twp PD

Fire Department Pager Tones

Department	Tone A	Tone B	Timing
Atwater FD	1180 Hz	992 Hz	1 sec/3 sec