Township makes most calls for fire fighters, survey reveals

Although the taxpayers of the town have been paying for the maintenance of the fire department until this year, a survey of the pas few years reveals that most of the calls for the fire truck come from outside the town limits

From 1931 to July 20th of this year there have been 78 calls to rural fires and 59 to these within the corporate lines.

Pro reating this cost of the upkeep of the department with the total number of fire, this makes the townsjop fires cost $3,497.26, and the town $2,812.58.

Of the number of fires outside of the town limits 41 have been to places not in the lake area or at the Academy. 22 have been to lake property, and 15 the academy propert. These figures are based on records kept by the fire

department since the middle of 1931.

Detailed statistics of the fire department follow:

Year	township fires	Town Fires	Av. cost per fire	Cost of twp. serv	Cost of town serv
last half 1931	7	3	cost not distributed
1932	7	13	$34.77	$243.39	$452.01
1933	24	15	13.31	317.14	198.14
1934	24	12	76.27	1830.43	915.22
1935	11	10	15.15	276.65	251.50
to July 20 1936	5	6	165.95	829.75	995.70
Totals	78	59	av $63.07	$3407.26	$2812.58

The annual expenses of the fire department since 1928, not including interest on investment to depreciation, have been at follows:

1927	$747.51
1928	$489.69
1929	$944.19
1930	$611.80
1931	$665.52
1932	$698.33
1933	$515.17
1934	$2,745.65
1935	$538.17
to July 1936	$1,825.40

It may be explained that the large figure for 1934 represents the repair of the truck after a wreck and the purchase of a newhose caused the increased expenditures this year.

"Has the public ever given fire protection serious thought?" queries Chief C. H. Cummins.

As the town and township are considering buying a new fire truck to replace the old one, which is completely neyond repair, we are submitting figures to show that it is worth a few cents of each taxpayer's money to hace a modern fire truck at his command at any time.

It is absolutely necessary to have this new equipment to give the town fire protection while the other truck is outside the town limits, or be ready to answer a rural fire while one truck is at a fire in town.

I also wish to call attention to the fact that appreciaition should be given to employers of the firemen who leave the place of business to answer fire alarms, as well as to the firemen who give their time and engery to the cause of adequate fire protection.