December 20, 1984

Firemen seek more volunteers

       Hoping to find about 12 new members, the White River Township Volunteer Fire Department has started a membership drive.  Flyers asking for new male and female volunteers were handed out to people attending the Center Grove-Indian Creek high schools basketball game Wednesday night.  The flyer contains a blank which prospective members age 18 and over may fill out and return to Assistant Fire Chief Pat McDaniel.  A membership drive committee of Marlene Sutton, Susie Faulkner, and Bill Simmonds prepared 5,000 flyers which they plan to distribute throughout the area which the fire department serves.   White River Volunteer Fire Department serves township businesses and residents north of Stones Crossing Road.  It is estimated 20,000 people live or work in the service area.  Mrs. McDaniel said she hopes the campaign will do well to add to the department’s present membership of 17, the lowest number of members in several years.  At times this year, only one White River firefighter was available during the daylight hours.  White River manpower was so short at a Dec. 9 house fire in Windsong Estates that the department members allowed teenagers in a firefighting training program to help fight it. Greenwood and Bargersville Fire Department members also assisted in fighting that fire. The department has mutual aid agreements with Greenwood and Bargersville Volunteer Fire Departments, but fire department members believe they need more White River firefighters in order to properly serve the township.  (Reprinted with permission from the Daily Journal) 
 
 

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