Nineveh Township Fire Department

04/25/2026

Tonight at 7:42pm Nineveh was called to assist Hamblen Township Volunteer Fire Department on a residential house fire on Sweetwater Trail. E 101 started Trafalgar Fire Department to respond with them. Nineveh arrived first on the scene with heavy smoke showing from the eaves of the house. E101 made a fast attack along with Trafalgar fire crew. Nineveh gave Car 6 command once he got on scene. Brown county crews made a search of the house. A great joint effort by all crews tonight to save a house. Fire is still under investigation at this time.

Cordry-Sweetwater Volunteer Fire Department & Ambulance Corps, Inc.
Morgantown Fire Department
Fruitdale Fire Department

Tonight at 7:42pm Nineveh was called to assist Hamblen Township Volunteer Fire Department on a residential house fire on Sweetwater Trail. E 101 started Trafalgar Fire Department to respond with them. Nineveh arrived first on the scene with heavy smoke showing from the eaves of the house. E101 made a fast attack along with Trafalgar fire crew. Nineveh gave Car 6 command once he got on scene. Brown county crews made a search of the house. A great joint effort by all crews tonight to save a house. Fire is still under investigation at this time.

Cordry-Sweetwater Volunteer Fire Department & Ambulance Corps, Inc.
Morgantown Fire Department

03/15/2026

At 1:20 Nineveh was called out on a shed fire. Eng 101, Eng 62, Car 6 and Eng 41 responded to the scene. Once Eng 101 arrived on scene it was marked a brush fire approaching a shed. Eng 101 began fast attack to stop the fire from reaching the shed and stopping the spread of the fire in to the woods. Many thanks to Trafalgar Fire Department and Edinburgh Fire for their crews assisting Nineveh with the brush fire. Today with the high winds isn’t a day to be open burning

03/13/2026

The Fire Board meets the first Wednesday of every Month at 6:30 on Station. If there any changes they will be posted here.

03/08/2026

We are testing the weather siren, repeat is only a test!

03/02/2026

Nineveh was called out on mutual aid with Trafalgar, Franklin, and Bargersville on a working barn fire in Trafalgar’s district off of 44 west of 135.
Trafalgar Fire Department
Bargersville Fire Department
City of Franklin Fire Department

12/21/2025

Around 8 am this morning Nineveh Fire Tanker 101 and numerous other departments in the county were dispatched for mutual aid to a residence fire in Needham Fire Departments District. Nineveh Tanker 101 responded. The first arriving crews quickly started fire suppression. A hydrant was located near the scene. The tankers were no longer needed and were cancelled.

Mutual aid is a team effort of fire departments helping each other in their efforts to serve their community and others. Fire departments use Mutual Aid agreements to share equipment, resources, and personnel, ensuring enough help for incidents like fires/disasters that exceed a single fire departments capacity. It fills gaps in manpower and or specialized apparatus and gear especially in low staffed or volunteer departments. This prevents departments local resources from being overwhelmed. Nineveh Fire provides and receives mutual aid from numerous departments in the surrounding area. Mutual aid and automatic aid are a vital resource for fire departments across Johnson County.

Tanker trucks are fire trucks that haul massive amounts of water. Tanker trucks typically haul anywhere from 1500 - 5000 gallons of water and sometimes even more. They are used as a resource to supply water to the fire scene through means of water shuttling and mobile water supply. They are often dispatched in areas of the county that are without hydrants or areas known to not have many hydrants. Tankers play a crucial role in fire extinguishment in rural areas.

12/20/2025

Come check out Deck the Stalls at Johnson County Horse park. Plus there is ice skating and bounce house out of the weather.

12/19/2025

Busy morning for the crews at Station 101.

At around 4:30 this morning Nineveh Fire units and Trafalgar Fire units were dispatched to assist Hamblen Township Fire and other surrounding Brown County Fire departments on a working residence fire. Crews assisted with fire suppression and overhaul for over 2 hours before being released from the scene.

Shortly after returning to station and cleaning up during shift change, Nineveh Fire Units were dispatched to assist Edinburgh Fire Dept. with a gas leak. Nineveh Fire units assisted Edinburgh Fire in investigation and evacuation of a nearby business. Center Point Energy arrived on scene and quickly mitigated the gas leak. Nineveh units were released from the scene.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to our Brown County Neighbors suffering the loss of their home during this holiday season.

12/12/2025

As the year winds down of our 70th year; we reflect on our history.

As WWII was unwinding, The Korean war was on going; Camp Atterbury provided service to the town. The camp had decreased activity and eventually shut down. The town's community decided to form a Fire Dept. The Nineveh Volunteer Fire Department was founded in May 1955 in the basement of the Nineveh Christian Church. Members from the Atterbury Fire Department helped organize and train the founding members of the Nineveh Volunteer Fire Department.

Funding was near non-existent. The department's first treasurer's report showed a balance of $3.47. The Department hosted fish frys every month and would send out in the mail a donation card. The meeting minutes of the department showed that a balance of $400 dollars was deposited after the first fish fry. The first truck was then purchased for $350, a 1942 open cab Seagrave pumper from the Michigan Navy, military surplus. Members would share gear that was stored on the truck. This continued for several years. In 1964, a new pumper was purchased to replace the 1942 Seagraves pumper. The Dept. has had several other apparatus since then. Such as, fire engines, brush trucks (apparatus for fighting brush/wild fires), rescue trucks (apparatus for vehicle extrication and other rescue operations), tanker trucks for hauling water in unhydrated areas of the district, also an ambulance and squad for EMS.

The fire station was built on the old Petro property west of the Nineveh Creek. A two-bay station with apparatus stacked three deep. In 1983 the station added a 3-bay add-on. This allowed for larger apparatus to be purchased. Since then, there have been other add-ons, one add-on was to add a kitchen to help with fish fry's and other events. Funding was still raised by hosting fund raisers and donated items. One of the fund raisers was parking cars and traffic control at the Nineveh High School basketball games.

The run load grew gradually. The department's first year run log showed 11 fires for the year. Today we respond to more emergencies other than just fires. We now respond to around 600 calls for service a year including medical emergencies, car accidents, various rescue, and fires. Receiving money from the Nineveh Fire Protection District formed in 1988 a tax was created to help fund area fire dept. 's to support them in their efforts to serve the community.

After department members noticed a void in service for ambulances in the southern half of Johnson county, an ambulance was purchased in late 2013 to help better service the community. Before the purchase of the ambulance the community was waiting on an ambulance to come from Franklin and other areas. Which in some cases would take around 25 to 30 minutes (sometimes even longer) for a transporting unit to arrive on scene. The ambulance helped the department to get the patients to the hospital or to an intercept point with an ALS unit more rapidly (this drastically improved community members outcomes). With this new tool our Firefighter/EMTS were able to get patients to definitive care faster.

Around the early to mid 2010’s there was a shortage of volunteer firefighters around the country, and The Nineveh Township Volunteer Fire Dept. was no exception. After seeing a decline of volunteers on the roster and showing up to emergency calls the department members decided that they had to explore a new option. In late 2015 The members decided to use some of the funds gained from the ambulance, to have a trial period of paid stand-by to staff the firehouse Monday thru Friday with two people 8am to 4pm. This was to help cover the times of the day when the volunteer members of the department were at their full-time jobs. With success, the program stuck. Since then, the dept has expanded the paid stand-by program to 4 people Monday thru Friday 8am to 4pm and 2 people at nights and weekends which meant 24/7 365 days a year staffing for the station.

Founding Board of Directors of the Nineveh Township Volunteer Fire Department, INC.
Floyd Wells
James Stultz
Kenneth Browning
Lloyd Graham
Orris Hughes

Founding Fathers of the Nineveh Township Volunteer Fire Department
Lucian Lucas Lloyd Graham
Oscar Cole Unie Brooks
Donald Smyser Lee Park
Virgil Richards Leo Ramey
Tommy and Alva Waltz Ralph Yates
Robert Hash Orris Hughes
Albert McMillian

First Officers of the department
Fire Chief: Leo Ramey
Assistant Chief: Virgil Richards
Secretary-treasurer: Orris Hughes

12/06/2025

Here is Nineveh Twp. Fire Departments monthly summary for the month of November.