Dedicated to promoting public safety and protecting the community against loss of life and property. Always striving for higher standards, and above all else, helping others.

Our fire department was established in 1947. The original fire house was located at what is now the township offices. The original two-story building sported a fireman's pole which is now displayed in Station Two.

The township fire department now consists of three Fire Stations.  All locations use a radio dispatch/paging system to alert firefighters.

The combined fire departments employ 14 full-time firefighters, including the assistant chief, and 38 part-time, on-call firefighters.

Three trained arson investigators and two state certified fire safety inspectors are on staff.

Ongoing personnel training is intensive and exceeds state and federal mandatory requirements.

Additionally, the department provides fire prevention training to businesses, fire education in schools, twice yearly fire drills in all schools, and participates in various community and business activities for the purpose of education.

It maintains all 1,300 hydrants in the township, which contains the largest water-main distribution system in Genesee County. Its per-capita loss ratio is the lowest in the county. This is attributed to maintaining full-time personnel at each station.

Department vehicles include seven pump trucks, one tower, two chief's vehicles, a captain's vehicle; a walk-in van (Air Unit), 3 utility pickups and an investigation van.