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The White River Township Fire Protection Board was established December 16, 1986
for the sole purpose of improving the quality of the fire service within the
responsible area of the White River Township Volunteer Fire Department,
Inc.
The
fire protection at that time was a one station engine company and a supporting
water tanker with just a handful of faithful volunteers responding from home for
the twenty-two square miles of
farms and few hundred homes.
The inception of the Fire Protection
District has brought many changes and improvements. The District is still
responsible for the same twenty-two square miles of area, however, it
finds itself today as the second fastest growing area in the State of
Indiana. Johnson County Planning & Zoning is approving house permits
at the alarming rate of over seven hundred per year in White River Township Fire
Protection District's area.
The strategy developed by the
District includes a five-year plan and 10-year vision, which will help the
department to continue
to provide superior service to its constituents and will include the transition
from an all-volunteer to a combination part-time/on-call to eventually an all
career department.
The Department has since
built a second and third station, with the third functioning also as the
department's headquarters facility. The apparatus fleet now includes four
fire fighting engines, a 102' aerial platform truck, a water tanker, a heavy
rescue, a rescue boat, a
grass truck, four utility vehicles, and ten staff vehicles.
The current board members are listed below and may be e-mailed by clicking any
one of the links. The group generally meets once per month at the
department's headquarters building. The next meeting date can be found
under the upcoming events section of the web site's main page.
Rev. James Dodson,
Chairman
Dr. Charles Shufflebarger,
Vice-Chairman
Millard "Butch"
Sutton,
Member
Jonathan D.
Raker,
Fiscal Officer
Paul L.
Kite,
Member
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