Indiana Township Fire Department

06/03/2026

🚗🏍️ Join Us for Our 14th Annual Car Show Fundraiser! 🏍️🚗

Mark your calendars for Saturday, August 30th at the Countryside Events Center!

📍 Registration begins at 2:00 PM
💲 $20 Vehicle Registration Fee
🚘 Cars, Trucks, Bikes & Side-by-Sides Welcome
🌭 Burgers & Hot Dogs Available
🎟 Silent Auction
🏆 Awards & Great Company

Bring your family and friends for an afternoon of amazing vehicles, good food, and community fun—all while supporting a great cause. Whether you’re showing off your ride or just coming to enjoy the event, we’d love to see you there!

Please share this post and help us spread the word! 🚒❤️🚑🤍

05/18/2026

✅ Mark your calendars for the Indiana Township Fire Department 14th Annual Car Show! 🚘

Join us on Sunday, August 30, 2026, at Countryside Events Center beginning at 2 PM for an afternoon full of cool rides, good food, and fun for everyone!

We welcome:
✔ Cars
✔ Trucks
✔ Bikes
✔ Side-by-sides

💲 Registration: $20 per vehicle

We’ll also have:
🌭 Burgers & hotdogs served
🎁 Silent auction
🏆 Great atmosphere and community fun

Whether you’re showing off your ride or just coming to check them out, we’d love to see you there to help raise money for new fire and rescue equipment 🚒🚑

05/12/2026

🚨📢ATTICA RESIDENTS📢 🚨

Tomorrow, May 12th 2026, Marion County - IA Sheriff's Office dispatch will be testing the storm siren in Attica.

The test will occur at 1PM.

We will have personnel in place to confirm if the siren is working properly.

Do not be alarmed as this is only a TEST.

Marion County Emergency Management Agency

04/30/2026

🚒 Today is National PrepareAthon! Day!

Emergencies don’t come with a warning—that’s why being prepared matters. Take a few minutes today to talk with your family about an emergency plan, check your smoke alarms, and make sure you have basic supplies on hand.

A little preparation now can make a big difference later. Stay safe and be ready!

❤️ ITFD

04/12/2026

What a night!👏 See you in Bussey on the 4th! 🎇

04/04/2026

🚨 One week away 🚨

04/01/2026

🚨🚨 PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨🚨

After years of rumors, Facebook critiques, and unsolicited advice from “volunteer experts,” we’re ready to go full transparency:

🔥🚒 YOUR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT IS OFFICIALLY A TAXPAYER-FUNDED FRAT HOUSE 🚒🔥

Welcome to:
🏠 Station 1: Alpha Alpha Volunteer Response Unit – Where Training Meets Chaos 🏠

📋 REAL VOLUNTEER LIFE:
• We leave work, school, or dinner at a moment’s notice to respond to emergencies
• Training nights? Imagine drills mixed with competitive hose rolling and occasional interpretive ladder climbing
• Group chat? 90% memes, 10% “Did anyone check the gear?” (and 0% actual planning… mostly)
• Gear is always ready—hoses, ladders, helmets, and trucks prepped for action… unless someone accidentally left the nozzle in the bay

💻 FACEBOOK COMMENTER EDITION:
If you’ve ever typed:
“Just a frat house”
“Do they even do anything there?”
“I could do that!”

…welcome to the Keyboard Commander Ride-Along Program. Your duties include:
✔️ Watching us scramble from jobs, homes, and meetings
✔️ Critiquing our “frat house efficiency” in real time
✔️ Taking mental notes on how you’d totally do it better

🔥 NEW DEPARTMENT MOTTOS 🔥
“Look like chaos. Operate like volunteers.”
“Keyboard critics welcome… real emergencies only.”

Yes, it’s ridiculous. Yes, it’s partially true. But when that pager goes off, it’s all business—because at the end of the day, volunteers drop everything to protect the community, frat house energy or not.

Happy April Fool’s Day! 😎

03/28/2026

Rise and shine—it’s breakfast time! 🍳🥞🥓

Head on over to the Melcher-Dallas Fire Department breakfast today from 7:00–11:00 AM and let them take care of the cooking (and the dishes 👀).

They’re flipping pancakes, cooking up the classics, and serving it all with a side of small-town hospitality. Honestly, it smells like a good decision already.

Good food, good people, and a great cause—hard to beat that combo. Plus, it’s the perfect excuse to not make your own breakfast.

Go support your local firefighters and start your day the right way! 🚒🔥

03/26/2026

CRP burn from a different angle ✈️🔥
Looks a little dramatic from up here, but it’s all planned, controlled, and doing exactly what it’s supposed to do.

Log the approach as actual?

03/26/2026

Ever wonder why the fire department is out “starting fires” on purpose this time of year? 🔥

What we’re burning is called CRP, which stands for Conservation Reserve Program. It’s a program that takes farmland out of crop production and plants it with grasses and native vegetation to help prevent erosion, improve water quality, and provide wildlife habitat.

So why burn it?

Prescribed burns are actually one of the best ways to keep CRP land healthy. Fire helps:
• Remove dead grass and built-up thatch
• Control invasive species
• Return nutrients to the soil
• Promote strong, new growth for wildlife

These burns are planned, controlled, and done under the right weather conditions by trained personnel. It’s not just lighting a match—it takes coordination, equipment, and experience to do it safely.

It might look a little wild, but it’s an important part of land management and helps reduce the risk of uncontrolled wildfires later on.

As always, if you see smoke and are unsure, feel free to call it in—we’d rather check it out than have something go unreported.

Stay safe!

— ITFD🚒🔥