Winchester Community Fire District

10/16/2026

🚒🌶️ DEPARTMENT VS. DEPARTMENT CHILI COOK-OFF! 🌶️🚒

You’ve seen the news stories. You’ve seen the trucks responding for years. You’ve watched them race down the road when someone in our community needed help.

Now is your chance to get to know the faces behind the gear. ❤️‍🔥

Join the Wi******er Community Fire District on Saturday, November 21st, from 4–9 PM at The Willow Event Center for a night of good food, friendly competition, and community fellowship!

📍 LOCATION:
The Willow Event Center
7662 Eckmansville Rd
Wi******er, OH 45697

➡️ We’ll be on the LEFT SIDE of The Willow in the NEW ADDITION!

🌶️ DEPARTMENT VS. DEPARTMENT CHILI COOK-OFF 🌶️

Fire departments from near and far are invited to bring their best chili and compete for bragging rights! Any department is welcome to participate—it does NOT have to be located in Adams County.
Contact: Natalie Baker at 937-205-0319 to sign your department up

Come hungry and sample some delicious chili while having dinner with the firefighters who serve our communities. Dinner is only $5 a bowl, with toppings included! Sides and drinks will also be available for an additional cost.

But that's not all!

🎟️ SILENT AUCTION
🎟️ SPLIT-THE-POT RAFFLE
🔫 GUN RAFFLE — Tickets go on sale TODAY, with the winning ticket drawn at the event on November 21st. (All applicable eligibility and legal requirements apply.)

Most importantly, this event is about supporting the Wi******er Community Fire District following the loss of their rescue pumper. These trucks aren't just pieces of equipment—they're tools our firefighters depend on when they answer the call for our families, friends, neighbors, and communities.

So bring the kids. Bring your friends. Bring your appetite. Come meet the firefighters, taste some incredible chili, bid on some great items, try your luck in the raffles, and spend an evening supporting the people who are always there when our community needs them.

🚒❤️‍🔥 Come support WCFD. Come support our firefighters. Come hungry—and come ready to have some fun! ❤️‍🔥🚒

📅 Saturday, November 21st
⏰ 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM
📍 The Willow Event Center — LEFT SIDE, NEW ADDITION

🌶️🚒 Good food. Good people. Friendly competition. One great cause. 🚒🌶️

We hope to see you there!

10/04/2026

Around 2230 hours last night, we received a dispatch that no firefighter ever expects: a reported structure fire at our own station. A member driving by noticed smoke in the vicinity and alerted Adams County Dispatch.

Members responded from home within minutes and found heavy smoke coming from the building. Conditions made it extremely difficult to assess the situation or enter the station. Our rescue pumper was on fire, threatening to spread to the building. Members were able to remove a brush unit and protect the structure until mutual aid crews arrived to help finish extinguishing the fire.

My heart breaks for our members, both current and retired, who have dedicated so much of their lives to securing this equipment and protecting our community. This loss carries the weight of years of hard work, sacrifice, and pride.

I also want to express my deepest gratitude to the men and women of our neighboring fire departments. Without your compassion, dedication, and hard work, we could have lost our firehouse last night. There are too many of you to thank individually, but please know that your efforts are deeply appreciated and will never be taken for granted.

Although our rescue pumper was a total loss, we will continue operating out of Station 19 with an engine loaned to us by Wayne Township. They deserve a special thank-you for their generosity and support. You stayed with us last night until that engine was in service and ready to respond to calls. I hope you never find yourselves needing the same help, but if you do, we will be there. We will never forget what you did for us.

This is the brotherhood that people talk about in the fire service. Last night, we experienced it firsthand.

To our community: thank you for your continued support over the years and through this difficult time. You may see us responding in a different engine than you are accustomed to, but we are still here, still operational, and still ready to answer the call.

Chief
Travis Baker 1901

08/04/2026

03/16/2026

At 1710 hours, The Wi******er Community Fire District was dispatched for mutual aid with Eastern Joint Fire and EMS District for a semi fire on Five Points Mowrystown Road. Upon arrival of the first units, a semi was found on fire along with two large piles of wood and the fire had spread into the field and woods. Engine 19, Tanker 19 and Brush 19 responded. Tanker 19 was tasked to haul water while Engine 19 set up a water supply at a pond near the fire scene. Engine 19 deployed 30’ of hard suction to the pond and a manifold was put in place off the rear discharge to supply two tankers at one time. All Station 19 units cleared the scene at 19:25.

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