Dunham Fire Dept Inc

06/02/2026

Ice Cream Social June 13th 4-8. Live music chicken dinners bounce house rafflles and more. Looking for donations for our country store and desserts. Come support your local fire and ems.

05/28/2026

Kenna was at the firehouse today helping to prepare for the upcoming Ice Cream Social on June 13 from 4:00 to 8:00 pm. She "helped" with cleaning (loves water) and then practiced her "fire watch" pose behind the firehouse. Please be sure to circle the date on the calendar and stop by the firehouse this evening if you would like to purchase a raffle ticket for a deer rifle or a swing, fire ring or Blackstone grill!

05/27/2026

We are always accepting applications - this is entry-level firefighter training. All of our firefighters have at least this level of training. If you have an interest in serving your community, this is an excellent place to start. We are at the fire house on Veto Road just beyond the Dollar General on Thursday evenings at 7:00 pm. Stop in and we will talk!

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Use keyword: “Volunteer Firefighter”

05/27/2026

Late this afternoon, we responded to the Rocky Point Road area in mutual aid to our neighbors at Barlow Volunteer Fire Department for an accident. We responded with 3 firefighters and 2 firefighter/EMTs on our rescue truck and our brush truck, which delivered our side-by-side to the scene. The side-by-side proved helpful in moving a patient to the Barlow squad for transport. (The side-by-side was purchased 5 years ago with a 50/50 grant from the Ohio Division of Forestry.) We are always eager to assist our mutual aid partners when called upon because we know they will be there to assist us in the event we need help.

05/26/2026

Earlier this evening, we responded tin mutual aid to the Warren Township Volunteer Fire Department at a report of smoke in a residence off of Greenhill Road on the east end of Veto Road. We responded with a tanker, a pumper, a brush truck and a squad along with 8 firefighters and 2 EMS personnel. Thankfully there was no actual fire and no one was injured. The brotherhood of mutual aid proved itself worthwhile as there were close to 20 fire/EMS personnel on scene between the two departments. We are always happy when we respond to a fire call when nobody is hurt and their home or belongings are not damaged or destroyed.

05/21/2026

Raffle tickets are now being sold for a gun, an Amish-made swing, a custom-made steel fire ring and a 28" Blackstone grill. There are a limited number of gun tickets (150) and they are going fast at $10 each. The tickets for the other items are $5 each or three for $10. See any member or stop by the fire house any Thursday evening at 7:00 pm. The drawing will take place just prior to the end of the Annual Ice Cream Social on June 13 from 4:00-8:00 pm. We hope to see you at the social!

05/18/2026

In 1974, President Ford formalized designating the third full week of May as National EMS Week. In recognition of this, we wanted to let you know of the EMS activity of your Dunham Township Volunteer Fire Department for the 2025 calendar year.

We responded to 263 "squad" calls (ambulance) in our township and in mutual aid to surrounding townships. We responded in mutual aid to Barlow, Warren, Fairfield, Decatur and Wesley Townships. We averaged 22 squad calls per month with as few as 14 in August and as many as 29 in April. We traveled approximately 4,033 miles on these squad calls. On rare occasions, we received mutual aid from neighboring township squads when we were unable to adequately staff our squad for a call or our squad was already busy with another call.

We responded to calls ranging from an elderly or disabled person falling and needed a "lift assist" to motor vehicle accidents with entrapment and from a drowning to cardiac arrest. We responded to snake bites to intentional deaths and from general illness to seizures and strokes. In other words, we have responded to about every type of medical emergency you can imagine.

An EMS response involves at least two EMS-trained members responding with a third or fourth member (EMS or fire) frequently responding, as well. When a call is received, the members respond to the station first, get in the squad and then travel to the scene of the emergency. The patient is assessed and treated, if necessary. In the event that additional medical care is needed, we transport the patient to the hospital. We transported patients to Marietta Memorial Hospital-Main Campus, Marietta Memorial Hospital-Belpre Campus and Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital. Depending on the nature of the call, the amount of treatment needed prior to transport, the time needed to move the patient from where they are found to the squad (if transport is necessary) and the amount of time we have to wait with the patient at the emergency room until hospital staff take over care of the patient, we may spend over two hours from the time we are dispatched until the time we have completed the necessary paperwork following the call. It is not unusual for the calls to last longer than that.

After reviewing run reports and dispatch logs, if you do the math . . . there were well over 500 hours of time your members spent on EMS calls during 2025. That number does not include hours spent in training, certification and re-certification or hours spent on cleaning and maintaining the squad. These are all volunteer hours which occur all hours of the day and night including weekends, holidays, birthday parties, etc. We hope you never need a squad but, know that if you do, we will do our best to respond quickly and provide quality emergency medical care to you or your loved one.

05/15/2026

Test your detectors (smoke and carbon monoxide), have an escape plan and be fire safe! Never re-enter a burning structure and call 911!

05/10/2026

Kenna visited Kenadee Antil and her family at the Kenadee Strong Fundraiser - Co****le Tournament at the Barlow Fairground this morning. Thanks to the Barlow Volunteer Fire Department for sponsoring the event. Kenna wishes Kenadee a full and speedy recovery following her recent completion of medical treatment.

04/17/2026

In the early days of organizes firefighting, firefighters would pull a cart laden with water to the fire scene and then two of them would manually pump water from the cart through hoses to suppress the fire. Later, horses were used to pull a wagon that had a steam "engine" (sort of like a coal/wood fired locomotive) complete with a fire box to produce steam to operate a pump that would force water through the hoses.

In both of these scenarios, the firefighters would have to push the cart or wagon back into the station following the fire. To demonstrate their appreciation to the firefighters, members of the public would help them in pushing the cart or wagon in.

As time passed, internal combustion engines took the place of the horses so it was no longer necessary for anyone to push the trucks back into the station. Nonetheless, members of the public would still come to the station following a fire and symbolically "push the truck in".

Eventually the practice ended. Out of tradition, however, to this day, when a new firetruck arrives at a fire station, the public who is served by that station is invited to "push the truck in" for the first time.

Watch for an upcoming announcement as to the date and time when your Dunham Township Volunteer Fire Department will receive a brand new fire engine. When the truck arrives, we would love to have you stop by to welcome this new apparatus which will serve our community for many years.