Walkerton Volunteer Fire Department

01/26/2026

This is great advice!

IMPORTANT PSA!!! Most of us have at least 10" of snow on the ground from the past many storms... some of us are approaching THREE FEET of snowpack. More snow is coming this week.

Make sure your house's exhaust pipes are CLEAR OF SNOW! Blocked exhaust vents from snow & ice can trigger a pressure safety mechanism in the furnace and cause it to shut down. If that mechanism fails, deadly carbon monoxide can rapidly buildup inside homes and kill you, your family and your pets.

Shovel out a good 2' around the exhaust pipes to be safe. While you're outside, check your dryer vent, too... and make sure any fire hydrants are clear for our first responders!

Thanks to my newest sponsors at Colvin Mechanical for the safety PSA. Great reminder!

11/30/2025

We were going to type out something like this but I lack the social media creativity to do so, so here’s Lowell Indiana Fire Department with some awesome winter weather tips, with some sass.

Enjoy! Stay safe and warm!

❄️🚒 ROUND ONE SURVIVED. ROUND TWO LOADING. CHAOS INCOMING. 🚒❄️

Well, Lowell… you did it.
Round One of the Snow Saga™ is over, and miraculously, we didn’t spend the whole day scraping your cars off guardrails like they were stickers that wouldn’t peel clean.

We had bets going.
We had charts.
We had a whiteboard labeled “People Most Likely To Yeet Their Car Into A Ditch.”
But y’all kept it together… mostly.
Color us impressed and mildly suspicious.

But listen — winter isn’t done.
Not even close.
Mother Nature is out here sharpening her icicles like Wolverine claws, and the roads are still slicker than cat mess on linoleum, which — fun fact — is basically the slipperiest substance known to mankind.

So before you all go out there reenacting Frozen with your four-door sedans, let’s review some spicy, unhinged, brutally honest driving tips.

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❄️🔥 LOWELL FIRE’S “PLEASE STOP MAKING US AGE PREMATURELY” DRIVING TIPS 🔥❄️

🔥 1. Slow down.
If your car is screaming louder than your kids at bedtime, you’re going too fast.

🔥 2. Back off the car in front of you.
This is traffic, not a family reunion photo.
Give people space.

🔥 3. Clean. Off. Your. Car.
No, Brenda, you cannot “just let the wind take it off.”
This isn’t a Disney movie.
You are launching snow missiles at innocent citizens.

🔥 4. Headlights are mandatory.
Driving without them in a snowstorm is like showing up to work without pants.
You can do it, but everyone suffers.

🔥 5. Brake early.
If the way you stop your car is by hoping real hard, congratulations — you’re the reason we drink.

🔥 6. If you start sliding…
Don’t jerk the wheel like you’re trying to break out of handcuffs.
Let the car glide.
Like you’re pretending to be graceful.
Even if we all know you’re not.

🔥 7. Shiny road = ICE.
Not decoration.
Not “pretty.”
Not “probably fine.”
ICE.
Say it with us: I do not, in fact, possess friction immunity.

🔥 8. 4WD does NOT make you Snow Jesus.
You can still slide into a ditch.
You can still crash.
You can still make us question your life choices.

🔥 9. Signal your turns.
We’re firefighters, not mind-readers.
We don’t know where you’re going.
Sometimes we’re not convinced you know where you’re going.

🔥 10. If you don’t absolutely need to be out…
Stay home.
Eat snacks.
Watch something dumb.
Enjoy being warm and uninjured.
Let the professionals and the winter thrill-seekers battle the elements.

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❤️🚒 FINAL THOUGHTS FROM YOUR FAVORITE SEMI-UNHINGED FIRE DEPARTMENT

Lowell, we love you.
But some of you drive like the snow personally insulted your mother and you’re out for revenge.

Please… PLEASE…
Drive smart, drive slow, and for the love of everything holy, don’t make us pull you out of a snowbank while you say, “I don’t know what happened.”

Stay warm. Stay safe.
Stay off the Darwin Awards list.

❤️🚒❄️

09/29/2025

Our cruise-in was a great success! All proceeds from registration fees and 50/50 tickets were donated to JGHS!

09/28/2025

The WVFD Cruise In at the annual Falloween Fest is on! Come on down and enter a cool car or just come check them out!

09/25/2025

Happy Falloween Time!

WVFD is happy to be involved in this wonderful Walkerton/JGHS yearly fall tradition!

You’ll see us in the parade on Friday that kicks off at 5pm. Then we will be standing by for the fireworks display Saturday night which starts at 9:45pm!

Finally, come visit us at the Annual WVFD Cruise-In on Sunday in the West lot of the High School and check out some awesome cars! Or bring yours out!

We look forward to seeing everyone!

08/04/2025

Here’s some good information from IDEM about who can legally burn what in the State of Indiana!

06/10/2025

The WVFD conducted monthly training Monday night. We trained on rural water supply.

So how do fire departments get a consistent supply of water out in rural areas that aren’t hydranted? WVFD covers areas that have hydrants and areas that don’t.

As you can see in the above pictures, a tanker will drop a drop tank or two. They hold approximately 2000 gallons. An engine will lay hard suction hose into the tank, and tankers can come and empty their entire water tank in a matter of seconds into the drop tanks.

This allows the engines to have a constant supply of water for the firefighters. With mutual aid departments, you can have a constant line of tankers just dropping, going to fill up, and returning to drop again.

Hope you learned something!

Don’t worry IDEM, we didn’t burn anything tonight, just sucked and sprayed some water!

04/19/2025

The WVFD would like to extend our deepest condolences to Liberty Township Emergency Services and to the family of John Blosser. Rest easy brother, we’ll take it from here.

01/18/2025

Take time now to prepare for the chilly days ahead!

01/11/2025

With snow on the ground and in the forecast, just a friendly reminder that this helps us out tremendously if we need to use one in the event of a structure fire!