History of the Portage Fire Department

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The Fire Department began back when the City of Portage was actually a "Township".  Our fire department is a combination department with both full-time career as well as part-time part-paid firefighters. 

We currently employ 31 career firefighter/officers with 17 part-paid on-call firefighters.  Our department responses to an average of 3,100 calls for service annually.  Operating in a two-tiered EMS system, we run on everything from EMS calls to personal injury crashes to structure fires and everything in between.  We run with two different ambulance companies (Pride Care and Life EMS) who provide ALS and transport services to the City of Portage.  Someday we hope to regain our ability to provide ALS service to our citizens.

As well as serving the citizens of Portage, we also assist our neighboring communities of Kalamazoo, Texas Township, Vicksburg and Pavillion Township with initial aid and mutual aid agreements.