Manistee Township Fire Department

Manistee Township Fire Department Fire Department Manistee Township Fire Department maintains a 20-member volunteer fire department which also includes one cadet.

The Manistee Township Fire Department was established in May of 1973, by a group of men with a great deal of fore sight and little money. Many of those men remain as Charter Members of the Manistee Township Fire Department. Presently the Department has six trucks, including one engine, two tender/pumpers, one brush/grass rig, and one 75' ladder/quint. The newest Engine was replaced in late Decembe

r of 2020 in conjunction with a grant from the Little River Revenue Sharing Board, and General Fund of Manistee Township. Officers of the Manistee Township Fire Department Include:

Joe Cerka Fire Chief
Vacant, Fire Captain
Brian Forbes, Fire Lieutenant
Vacant, EMS Captain
Shelby Fraly , EMS Lieutenant

We appreciate your willingness to seek training, be on call at all hours of the day and night to serve the people of Manistee Township. Your professionalism in dealing with all situations makes you a valuable asset, and a source of pride to the community. To each Manistee Township Fireman, THANK YOU for all you have done and do to make Manistee Township a great place to live, work, and play. Congratulations on Forty Seven Years of Service by Manistee Township Fire Department

Maddie and Shawna stopped by the other night to pick up a fire extinguisher they won at our fire prevention open house. ...
10/30/2024

Maddie and Shawna stopped by the other night to pick up a fire extinguisher they won at our fire prevention open house. Thank you for attending and participating in our fire safety activities.

10/08/2024

Have you made a plan in case of fire in your house hold?

Consider EDITH

Exit
Drills
In
The
Home

Sit down with your family today and make a step-by-step plan for escaping a fire.

Draw a floor plan of your home marking two ways out of every room - especially sleeping areas.

Agree on a meeting place outside your home where every member of the household will gather after escaping a fire to wait for the fire department.

Practice your escape plans at least twice a year.

Make your exit drills realistic. Pretend that some exits are blocked by fire, and practice alternative escape routes.

If you live in a two-story house and you must escape from a second-story window, be sure there is a safe way to reach the ground.

Test doors before you open them. While kneeling or crouching at the door, reach up as high as you can and touch the door, the k**b, and the space between the door and its frame with the back of your hand. If the door is hot, use another escape route. If the door is cool, open it with caution.

If you are trapped, close the doors between you and the fire. Stuff the cracks around the doors to keep smoke out. Wait at a window and signal for help with light-colored cloth or a flashlight.

In case of a fire, don't stop for anything. Do not try to rescue possessions or pets. Go directly to your meeting place, and then call the fire department from your neighbor's phone.

Crawl low under smoke. Smoke contains deadly gases, and heat rises. Cleaner air will be near the floor.

Once you are out of your home, don't go back for any reason. If people are trapped, the fire fighters have the best chance of rescuing them.

Smoke detectors: More than half of all fatal home fires happen at night, while people are asleep. Smoke detectors sound an alarm when a fire starts, waking people before they are trapped or overcome by smoke. With smoke detectors, your risk of dying in a home fire is cut nearly in half.

10/08/2024

Remember PASS

Pull
Aim
Squeeze
Sweep

A portable fire extinguisher can save lives and property by putting out a small fire or containing it until the fire department arrives; but portable extinguishers have limitations. Because fire grows and spreads so rapidly, the #1 priority for residents is to get out safely.

We had a successful open house at our station yesterday with kids and adults alike having fun learning about fire safety...
10/08/2024

We had a successful open house at our station yesterday with kids and adults alike having fun learning about fire safety. A huge thank you to Little River Casino Resort as well as Morton Salt for helping sponsor the event. We were able give out smoke detectors, kids goodie bags, cookies, and even a few extinguishers. I would also like to give recognition to the dedicated MTFD crew who volunteered their time.

04/25/2024

ATTENTION: MULTIPLE BURNS/MULTIPLE BURN UNITS for today, Thursday April 25, 2024:

The Mio Ranger District will be conducting two Rx burns on 2 units totaling 83 acres of grass and leaf litter around the Mack Lake Community in the vicinity of Eggleston and Keeley Roads, Mentor Twp., Oscoda County.

The Cadillac Manistee Ranger District will be burning 2 units of grass and hardwood litter in Stronach Township, Manistee County;
*156 acres in the vicinity of Skocelas and Steinberg Roads
*283 acres in the vicinity of Little River and 6 Mile Bridge Roads.

Residents and motorists may encounter smoke, fire personnel and heavy equipment in the area. Firefighters will monitor the burn area for days following the burn.

Rx burns are planned events that are matched to predetermined weather/fuel parameters. Fuel breaks and additional ground resources such as engines, dozers and specially trained fire personnel are used to carryout prescribed burning.

As you may have seen, we finally received our newest project! If you haven’t, I have posted pictures below as well. This...
04/02/2024

As you may have seen, we finally received our newest project! If you haven’t, I have posted pictures below as well.
This build was very important to our department as it was beyond time for an upgrade to our medical truck. We created a small team of members who worked diligently alongside Allied to see this build all the way through. EMS Captain Shelby Fraly and EMS Lt. Gordon Grant took a bare bones truck body and with input from their team brought in other pieces to finalize this build.
When this project started, we spoke with companies who could build a unit from top to bottom to get quotes and see what the best route would be. Most of those quotes came in around $250,000. Through the hard work of our team, both in house and from Allied, we were able to keep those costs significantly lower while not sacrificing quality or practicality.
After sitting down we decided that piecing the build together would be our best bet since it would allow us to customize nearly every aspect of the project to best fit our needs. Housed in the truck is not only our medical equipment, but also our ice water rescue equipment and even swift water rescue equipment.
There is a fully extendable 8ft tray that slides out of the back allowing full access from 3 sides to all of the equipment that is located within. Each section contains specific call related items so that we can grab all of the gear we may need in one go.
After we received the slide out tray, it was then sent down with the truck body to Allied where they began putting everything together per the specifications that we had worked on together. A topper was ordered and was the last “big” piece that was needed for the build. The team at Allied then put in a lot of hard work on wiring to make sure that the lights all over the vehicle worked and were located in the areas we needed them to be, they made sure that we had outlets in the slide out tray that were functional for the gear that requires power, they even placed our decals exactly where we wanted them to be and communicated with us any time they had questions or an issue arose. Working with them has been an amazing experience and we are incredibly thankful to our team, the township board, and the hard working team at Allied for assisting in the project. Overall, the entire build brought us to a total around $100,000 which is a welcome price to pay in comparison to the quotes that we received.

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1331 Hill Rd
Manistee, MI
49660

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(231) 723-4002

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Manistee Township Fire Department maintains a 20-member volunteer fire department which also includes two cadets. The Manistee Township Fire Department was established in May of 1973, by a group of men with a great deal of fore sight and little money. Many of those men remain as Charter Members of the Manistee Township Fire Department. Presently the Department has six trucks, including one engine, one ladder, two tender pumper trucks, one brush/grass rig and one medical first responder rig.

Officers of the Manistee Township Fire Department Include: Chuck Barron, Fire Chief Joe Wells, Assistant Chief Sam Kocinski, Captain Brian Forbes, Lieutenant Vacant, EMS Lieutenant We appreciate your willingness to seek training, be on call at all hours of the day and night to serve the people of Manistee Township. Your professionalism in dealing with all situations makes you a valuable asset, and a source of pride to the community. To each Manistee Township Fireman, THANK YOU for all you have done and do to make Manistee Township a great place to live, work, and play.

Congratulations on Forty Six Years of Service by Manistee Township Fire Department