Porter County (IN)

Fire Station Numbering

• Chesterton: 500 and 600 series (primarily 500)
• Kouts: 700 and 800 primarily 700
• Porter: 900 and 1000 pri. 900
• Union Twp: 1100 and 1200 (both sets used)
• Boone Grove: 1300, 1400, 2300, and 2400
• Ogden Dunes: 1500 and 1600 pri 1500
• Hebron: 1700 and 1800 pri. 1700
• Liberty Twp.: 1900 and 2000 pri. 1900
• Pine Twp.: 2100 and 2200 pri 2100
• Beverly Shores: 2500 and 2600 pri 2500
• South Haven: 2700 and 2800 (both sets used)
• Washington Twp: 2900 and 3000 pri 2900
• Morgan Twp: 3100 and 3200 pri. 3100
• Burns Harbor: 3300 and 3400 pri 3300
• Lake of the 4 Seasons: 3500 and 3600 (both sets used)
• Porter County Fire Investigation Strike Team (F.I.S.T.): 4700
• Westville (from LaPorte County): 4900
• Mittal Steel: 5300
• Indiana Dunes/National Lakeshore: 5600 (frequency 166.325)
• EMA: 6400
• Tech Rescue Team: 6900
• Haz-Mat: 8400

Notes:

• Portage is on 154.2200 and uses Ladder 1; Engines 1, 2, 3, & 4; Tower 2, and Rescues 1, 2, and 3.
• Pine Twp and Beverly shores use each other extensively.
• There is a county-wide mutual aid agreement.
• Boone Grove VFD and Lake Eliza VFD merged and are now known as Boone Grove VFD when dispatched.
• PHM-EMS and fire units are dispatched on 2 frequencies simultaneously.
• The Porter County Fire Association web site is www.pcfa.net
• Each number designates a department (i.e. "1300" is Boone Grove Station)
• A designation of 0x (i.e. "1301" is Boone Grove's Chief, as would be "501" for Chesterton's Chief). This continues for all officers, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, etc.)
• The Teens are engines: Boone Grove engine would be 1310, 1311 etc.
• The 20's are for aerials (i.e. 1220 for Union Twp aerial)
• The 30's are for rescues
• The 40's are for tankers
• The 50's are specialty rigs. (8450 is haz mat, 1257 is Union rehab unit)
• The 60's are ambulances
• The 70's are brush units
• The 80's and 90's are individual members.

Fire Tone Out

Porter County

A Tones	B Tones	Description
347.4	384.7	Beverly Shores
1687.2	1881.	Boone Grove
601.1	569.3	Burns Harbor
1881.0	1642.0	Chesterton
956*	1642.0	Chesterton Call Back
339.6	496.8	Four Seasons
368.5	389.0	Hebron
1687.2	979.9	Kouts
1881.0	1063.2	Liberty Twp
810.2	688.3	Mittal Steel
979.9	1034.7	Morgan Twp
1250*	1515*	National Lakeshore
569.3	788.8	Ogden Dunes
321.7	349.1	Pine Twp
1153.4		Porter
651.9	584.8	South Haven
953.7	1733.7	Union Twp
378.6	399.8	Valparaiso
676.0	744.0	Valparaiso Call Back
2401.0	1733.7	Washington Twp
1395.0	855.5	Westville

Portage Fire Department

584.8	617.4	Ambulance Tone
584.8	726.8	Motor Vehicle Crashes.
		1st of 2 tones for working structure fires.
		1st of 2 tones for off duty call-back.
688.6	652.2	Small Fires, fire alarms, investigations.
		Second of 2 tones for working structure fires.
726.8	617.4	2nd of 2 tones for off duty call back

Special Teams

358.6	1395.0	All Call
510.5	483.5	EMA
433.7	1395.0	Incident Mgmt Support Team
524.6	1395.0	Tech Rescue Team
2401.0	1830.5	Fire Investigation Strike Team
470.5	1395.0	Dive Team
810.2	1395.0	Hazmat
410.8	349.0	EMS
1285.8		PC EMS Diversion

NOTE: Tones with '*' are approximate based on analysis of a recording of the tone.

Call Disposition Codes

• 1--Alarm / Verified Entry
• 2--Alarm / False - Human Error
• 3--Alarm / False - Mechanical
• 4--Alarm / False - No Fault
• A--Arrest(s), Adult
• C--Assignment Complete
• D--Message Delivered
• G--Gone On Arrival
• H--911 Hang Up Check
• J--Juvenile Arrest(s) - No Adults
• K--Parking Ticket Issued (Used By Valparaiso PD)
• L--Civil / No Report
• N--Nothing Found
• O--Assist Other Jurisdiction
• P--Vehicle Impound
• R--Report Taken
• S--School Hotline Tip
• T--UTT Issued (Uniform Traffic Ticket)
• U--Unfounded or Call Cancelled
• V--Verbal Warning (Traffic)
• W--Written Warning (Traffic)
• Z--Assist Citizen