Culver - Union Township Fire Department 1974 - 1983 History and Genealogy of Lake Maxinkuckee

Culver - Union Township Fire Department 1974 - 1983

1974 Officers

1974 - Jan 24 - Appplicationes reviewed for Wm. F. "Bill" Snyder and Michael "Mike" Bennett and voted into the department

1974 - Fund Drive Progresses For Fire Department Radio - Jul 18

ANTIQUE RADIO-This old tube radio is still in regular use by the Culver-Union Township Fire Department, despite problems with intelligibility and emergency power consumption.

Community businesses and individuals are raising funds for a new transistorized radio because the new high pressure fire truck will use all available funds from the department's equipment budget.

Shown operating the radio during the fire call Saturday night {is Donald "Mike" Mikesell}, when Virgil Reinholt's tractor burned

1974 - Aug 1 - Culver Fire Station Has New Voice
NEW RADI0 INSTALLED

CALLING ALL TRUCKS! James Bonine, of Culver's Bonine funeral Home, Richard Sytsma of Al's TV and Appliances, and Donovan Overmyer, chief of the Culver Union Township fire Department participate in a short ceremony, that heralded the acquisition of a new Fire Department Base Radio/a>. Nearly $500 was donated by interested communilty groups and members to enable the fire department to aequite this new reliable radio.

1974 - Oct 14 - An A.M.B.U. Resuscitator was donated by the Holread children

1974 - Dec 9 - Verl "Mac" McFeely - retires from department; thought it was time due to age.

1975 Officers

The bell itself hung for some six decades in the belfry of the Maxinkuckee Methodist Church on 18B Road near the east shore of Lake Maxinkuckee, and was given a home with the fire department in the 1970's and the beams were built by Don Williams

It looks like it is riding upon one of the fire trucks with the Osborn Hotel in the background; was requested that by Robert "Bob" Kyle that bell be at the "Hotel" Osborn Center for its grand opening of 1975

1975- Jan 10 - Application of Richard Shoddy reviewed and elected to department

1975 Feb 10 - Application of RIchard SHoddy reviewed and elected to department

1975 - Aug 18 - Lions Club donated a Porta-Power unit to the department

1976 Officers

1977 Officers

1977, Oct 21 - Bowling Alley in which the Coffee Shop

1977 - Oct 24 - Steve Overmyer resigned

> 1977 - Oct 27 Farm Bureau Co-op Fire, 1977 on E. Jefferson.
1977 - Dec 12 - Application for Glenn Whitmarsh and Jim Dickey reviewed and elected to department

1977 Officers

1979 Officers

1980 Officers

1980roster of members from an article on the history on CUTFD that appeared in the Plymouth Pilot.

1980 - Jun 23 - Bill Wagnoer retired; application reviewed and Steve Neff voted in as a memeber

1981 Officers

1981 - Oct 26 - Application for Bud Carwright reviewed and voted into department

1981 - Oct 28 - Ray Houghton resigns from department

Members in 1981.
1982 Officers

1983 Officers

1983 - Jul 12 - Firemen Demonstrate New Equipment

Fireman Glen Whitemars demonstrates the fire department's newest piece of equipment, the deluge gun. The gun can pump 750 gallons of water per minute and can spray water easily into the upper floor of a three story building.

Participating in the demonstration Saturday are: (kneeling) Don Stubbs and Lance Overmyer. Standing are (left to right) Allen Becker, of Logansport and Culver, vice-president of Uniiversal Fire Apparatus Corp., who sold the gun to the fire department, Bill Martin, Glen Whitmarsh and Jim Dickey

1983 - Aug - 17 Swirely Top

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Lake Maxinkuckee Its Intrigue History & Genealogy Culver, Marshall, Indiana

Culver - Union Township Fire Department 1974 - 1983