Mercer County Fire Protection District

05/31/2026

POV response to a passenger vehicle fire.

05/31/2026

5-30: MCFPD responded to a vehicle fire on Highway 65 south of Princeton near Gazebo Street. Crews found a nearly fully involved passenger vehicle on the Northbound shoulder.

Thank you to Mercer County Sheriff's Dept. for managing traffic while our crews operated in the roadway! Remember anytime you see emergency vehicles operating move over and slow down.

05/29/2026

5-29: MCFPD secured the LZ for an incoming medical helicopter (Lifeflight Eagle 1) requested by Mercer County Ambulance. A trauma patient was airlifted to Des Moines to a Level 1 trauma center.

Why does Mercer County utilize HEMS (Helicopter EMS)? Due to our distance from definitive medical care +1.5hrs, some patients need to make it to the hospital faster than what we can take them by ground. Trauma, heart attacks, and strokes are some of the conditions where we will utilize aircraft to transport our patients.

05/27/2026

5-26: MCFPD responded to a skid steer on fire at Rt. Y and Inkwell Street. MCFPD requested Spickard Fire and Rescue for mutual aid due to it being close to district lines.

05/25/2026

05/17/2026

5-16: At 12:22am
MCFPD was dispatched out to a report of a structure fire near Ichabod Pl in Millgrove. Crews arrived found the remains of a small shed buring. Firefighters deployed and 1" 3/4 line and extinguished the remaining bits of fire. A brush pile lit earlier in the day had spread with increasing winds into the structure burning it down. It had been burning for an extended period of time before it was noticed.

Shortly after arriving back at the station Crews recieved a page for a report of a grass fire along the railroad tracks in Lucerne. Due to this being outside our district we had the information passed to Sullivan County to dispatch Medicine Creek. We sent one brush truck to assist. Crews found the fire had mostly extinguished itself.

Please be weather aware over the next few days as the risk for damaging winds, hail, and tornadoes are a threat!

05/13/2026

5-11: MCFPD members brought Truck 42 to Princeton R-5 Elementary to let students see the truck and ask questions about being a firefighter.

Later that afternoon MCFPD responded to a report of a camper on fire on Jargon Rd. A rubbish fire spread to grass around the camper subsequently burning the camper. It went unreported until a neighbor drove by. The camper was a total loss. Mercer County Ambulance also responded for medical stand-by.

04/20/2026

4-18: MCFPD responded to a report of a wheel loader on fire on Jasmine Road. Since the vehicle was right on the district line Spickard Fire and Rescue responded as well.

04/14/2026

It is National Public Safety Telecommunicators week! We would like to thank our dispatchers out of Harrison County for their hard work juggling two counties at once! This is no easy task, especially when every single fire department in both counties are on calls! Thank you for all you do behind the scenes!

03/31/2026

3-30: MCFPD responded to two calls.

The first was a rekindle call on Bayport Street. It's believed some burning trees from days prior had fallen across cut burn line causing the fire to spread further into the timber. Crews were able to contain the fire with leaf blowers and hand tools.

The second call was to assist Mercer County Ambulance for an incoming helicopter (Lifeflight Eagle 1). Initially the landing zone was established at our helipad however, due to strong winds the LZ was repositioned between the bridges just west of Princeton on Highway 136. The highway was shut down for approximately 30 minutes to allow the transfer of the patient from the ambulance to the aircraft.