(La Porte, IN) - The La Porte Fire Department is back to full strength.  The department now has 45 firefighters after four new firefighters began active duty, said La Porte Fire Chief Andy Snyder. 

The new firefighters are Sam Doig, Jacob Kazmierczak, Jacob Cooney and Maxwell Fisher.  They recently graduated from a firefighters’ academy which included 22 weeks of training.