Welcome to our website! We take great pride here at Cherry City to provide the best fire and rescue operations around. Our members come from a multitude of professions and backgrounds, which enables us to utilize their skills when needed on calls. We may be called out for just about anything anymore, as we are the “know-to, go-to” guys of the township. If someone else can’t figure out a problem, we are called out to attempt to mitigate that problem!
Since becoming Chief, Cherry City has progressed in many ways:
- The percentage of firefighters coming up to calls has increased & the amount of active firefighters in the company has increased .
- Firefighter proficiency, training and professional certifications are at an all-time high, with 75% of our active firefighters trained to at least the Firefighter I Level of Certification, many of whom have Firefighter II and beyond!
- The call volume has also increased dramatically over the years as we are called to many different scenarios aside from just fires and alarms.
- Our 2009 Ladder Truck is taking the brunt of the workload on most of the calls. Although it is over 10 years old, it runs as good as it did from the first day we took ownership!
- Back in 2016, we replaced our 1996 Heavy Rescue with a 2016 Ford F550 with a 4 Guys Rescue Body on it. It has also seen a lot of work!
- Also, after a lot of hard work designing and equipping it, our new Seagrave Marauder Engine (Pumper) was placed in service on March 4, 2025, running 3 calls in the first 2 hours of service!
We invite you to come up and take a look at our new pumper as it took a lot of help from you, the community, to raise the funds for this vehicle! We thank you from the bottom of our hearts and this will give us another tool to help make us maintain a level of excellence in the fire service.
We always look forward to members of the community stopping by to see what we do and who we are. We generally have somebody at the station most of the time, however members are guaranteed to be at the station on Tuesday evenings for Training/Meeting and Thursday Evenings for Bingo. Please feel free to look through our pictures and see what we do! Remember, come take a look around and consider becoming one of your neighborhood Volunteers! You do not have to be a firefighter to be a member of our company! We are always looking for a few good helping hands!
Take Care of Yourself, and Each Other
— Chief James Skalos