FirePreplans

Cedar Lake, Indiana. Lake County.

Cedar Lake Fire Department

  • 8,628pre-plans, about one per building
  • 5life-risk sites
  • 161estimated to need over 1,000 gpm
  • 101in the flood zone

Estimated from public records. Your officers fix what is off in setup.

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Mostly volunteer department. 1 station. 10 career firefighters.

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  • Your first due
  • Stations
  • Life-risk sites
Your first due, estimated by road distance from your stations. Your officers set the real lines in setup.

Your first due by the numbers.

8,628pre-plans to draft, estimated: about one for every building in your first dueEstimatedBuilding records as of Sep 2025
5life-risk sites: nursing homes, schools, hospitals, care homes and day caresEstimated
161buildings that need more than 1,000 gpmEstimated
101buildings in the 100-year flood zone, mapped zones onlyEstimatedFlood maps as of Oct 2026
At setuphydrants. Send your hydrant list or map in any form, or mark them in setup, and every card plans its water from them.
27square miles of first dueEstimated

About 24,213 people live in these buildings, estimated from the building records.

How to read these numbers. Estimated means we worked it out from public records, and your officers check it at setup. The month is when its list was last updated. A check flag means the list is more than 2 years old, so look at it first.

Numbers built October 2026. Your officers fix anything that is off in setup, and every card follows.

Buildings by type

  • Homes7,922
  • Businesses261
  • Apartments and lodging206
  • Mobile homes81
  • Sheds, utility and other63
  • Schools29
  • Farm buildings27
  • Industrial26
  • Government and assembly13
EstimatedBuilding records as of Sep 2025

Water need, in gpm

  • 250 or less3,205
  • 300 to 5003,650
  • 550 to 1,0001,612
  • 1,050 to 2,000123
  • over 2,00038
Estimated

Water need by the NFA formula, with 25% of the building involved. Homes and apartment buildings with no recorded height are counted as 2 floors; your officers can set heights in setup.

Shuttle loop times and rig counts are worked out card by card, from your tankers or tenders, your fill sites and your roads, once your officers enter them in setup.

Life-risk sites

Nursing homes, hospitals, care homes, schools and day cares that are first due to you, from state and national lists. Each list carries its own date.

NameTypeSizeList as of
Hanover Central High SchoolPublic school857 studentsJun 2025
Red Cedars ElementaryPublic school666 studentsJun 2025
Hanover Central Middle SchoolPublic school647 studentsJun 2025
Douglas MacArthur Elem SchoolPublic school466 studentsJun 2025
Jane Ball Elementary SchoolPublic school356 studentsJun 2025

Your stations.

Each card routes from the station that is first due, so the way in matches how your rigs come. Add or fix stations in setup.

  • Cedar Lake Fire DepartmentRecord dated Feb 2022