Volunteer Fire Dept

Volunteer Fire Dept.

The Loogootee Fire Department was founded in the late 1800s and is currently led by Fire Chief J.D. Flynn. The Fire Department is a 25-member organization that responds to over 200 calls per year. The department has 29 members on the active roster and 3 Jr. Fire Fighter slots available. Members are paid per run.

What We Do

• • Provide fire and emergency protection to the City of Loogootee, the Loogootee Fire Department, and Perry Township
  • Cover an approximate 41 square miles (4 miles wide which tapers to less than 1 mile and 25-mile-long) for first response
  • Actively assist mutual aid to all surrounding fire departments
  • Assist with EMS first response as an Indiana certified Basic Life Support Non-Transport provider, extraction, hazard mitigation, hazmat at operations level, search and rescue, fire and emergency preplanning, public relations demonstrations, and fire prevention programs

Notes

Our department is a part of Indiana District 10 Emergency Response and we remain on call for all of Southwest Indiana. Our chief is a member of the International Association of Fire Chiefs and a member of the Indiana Fire Chiefs Association and is involved in planning large scale mutual aid assistance and training issues facing the Fire Service and he is a member of Indiana District 10 planning council.

The department will go wherever needed with any requested equipment and manpower at any time. They also have and are actively training with their mutual aid partners regularly to better integrate all of our organizations to work together as one at any emergency.

We have worked closely with all levels of response from local to state to federal at emergencies in the past and have good working relations with all.

Contact Us

James D. (J.D.) Flynn, Fire Chief
P: (812) 295-2323