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Jo Gabhart Retires After 50 Years of Service
Gratitude goes to Johanna Gabhart (Jo) for her great service and dedication to the Buechel Fire Protection District as well as the people of Buechel. She is retiring after serving over 50 years with the department as the treasurer in which she began in January of 1959. Jo was born in Stanford KY and moved to Louisville when she was 12 then graduated from Jeffersontown High School. Afterward she attended Business College then began her employment at Bank of Louisville where she worked for 10 years. She later quit the bank to begin a family with her husband and they had a son (Roger) and step daughter (Bobbie Sue). Jo went back to work for PNC bank later retiring after 24 years. In January of 1959 the Board of Directors of the Buechel Fire Department Inc approached Jo about becoming the part-time treasurer for the department in which she accepted and has continued to serve until her retirement on June 30, 2009. She also served on that Board of Directors from February of 1990 until June of 1995. Words alone cannot show enough gratitude for her dedication and love for the members of the department and the job she has done. Thank you Jo for your years of service, friendship and guidance you will truly be missed. Officers PromotionsThe following Officers were re-appointed on 6-16-2009 Tony Downes – Major, Two Year Term expiring 6-30-2011 Steve Wolfe – Captain, Two Year Term expiring 6-30-2011 Troy Graviss – Lieutenant, Two Year Term expiring 6-30-2011 Todd Early – Lieutenant, Two Year Term expiring 6-30-2011 Andy Downes – Lieutenant, Two Year expiring 6-30-2011 Jake Barker was Appointed to fill the unexpired Lieutenant's position Jake Barker – Lieutenant, Unexpired One Year Term expiring 6-30-2010 Explorer Inferno 2009
Last year's Explorer Inferno was a huge success, and we are planning to have an even greater year. The Explorer Inferno event is an opportunity for Fire and Emergency Medicine Explorers to participate in a hands-on fire school, where they may accrue training hours. The aim of the Explorer Inferno is threefold: To provide excellent hands on training, to do it safely, and to have a blast! To print out a flyer to distribute click here. The Enrolment packet includes a full schedule and event description. Crusade For ChildrenThe Buechel Fire Protection District will be Collecting for the WHAS 11 Crusade for Children during the June 5th-7th Weekend. We will have volunteers collecting money door to door throughout the Buechel Community. We also operate a roadside collection at the intersection of Bardstown Road and Goldsmith Lane. Our friend Kevin Adams also operates a roadside collection for BFPD at the corner of Bardstown Road and Watterson trail. If you would like to make a donation and we have missed you please call the Buechel Crusade Command Post at 502-491-0085 and we have volunteers ready to come by your house to pick up your donation. For more information on how the Crusade for Children helps kids in our area Click Here. Follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/BFPD for collection updates. Volunteers are still needed, for information call 502-491-0085. All volunteers must fill out a Volunteer Waiver and persons under 18 will need the signature of their Parent of Legal Guardian. Collection ScheduleFriday June 5 Saturday June 6 Sunday June 7
Picnic for Firefighters and Civic Leaders
Re-Deployment of Radio ChannelsBased on reviews of dispatch systems across the country BFPD along with the rest of Jefferson County Fire will soon change the way we utilize (Re-Deploy) our existing radio channels. This change will begin initially as a sixty day trial period beginning on May 17, 2009 at 08:00 hours. Under this new plan all Jefferson County Fire Departments will conduct their primary operations from one common channel. When we are dispatched on a High Priority run the metrosafe communications dispatch center will notify us to switch our operations to one of three secondary operations channels. This is a change from the way that we have conducted radio operations for the last thirty years and is in keeping with the key mission of the Best Practices Committee, to standardize communication processes. The details of this trial are outlined in the pdf Re-Deployment of Radio Channels. All members will need to have their Motorola Minitor Pagers reprogrammed as a part of this change, Additional details will follow. Social NetworkingIn an effort to increase communication with our members and the Buechel community we have created a page on Facebook. Visitors to our page on Facebook are able to view and post pictures and communicate with other fans of BFPD. Check out our page on Facebook today and become a fan to receive updates. We have also created a Twitter account www.twitter.com/BFPD. We are utilizing the Twitter service to send "Tweets" about incident information, and department news. Anyone who has a free Twitter account can subscribe to receive instant updates delivered to either their e-mail inbox or cellular phone via text message. In addition we have added a department news section to our website (below the navigation buttons of our home page) that will automatically show our updates to anyone who views our website. This exciting new use of technology allows our fire department public information officers and webmaster to instantly share important information and media releases instantly, sometimes even from the scene of a fire via our mobile phones. If you are the member of another Fire Department and would like to speak with us about our experiences with social networking or get help with setting things up e-mail our webmaster, Sergeant Cody Weiss Recreational FiresWe have had many questions lately from residents of our district regarding recreational fires, or "campfires". This page from Louisville Metro Government should answer most questions. if you have any further questions please call or E-mail Captain Adam Jones. General Operating GuidelinesThe BFPD General Operating Guidelines are now available online. Click Here to view the table of contents. To view older stories that have appeared on this page view our Archive Section. |
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