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A Brief History of the Buechel Fire DepartmentIn 1942 the Office of Civil Defense contacted the Buechel Civic Club with the offer of equipment to support volunteer fire suppression. Buechel Civic Club members; Frank Binford, Elmer "bud" May, Thurston, Norbert, and Roy Schmidt, Clarence Range, and several others formed the Buechel Volunteer Fire Department. The first piece of fire apparatus was built from a 1936 Chevrolet truck that was donated to the Civic Club by Walter Heib. Civil Defense donated a 500 gallon per minute fire pump and fire hose mounted on a trailer. several resourceful members of the department mounted the pump and a 300 gallon tank onto the truck using the spare parts of the no longer needed civil defense trailer as bracing. The truck was stored in Roy Schmidt's garage. In 1945 Frank Binford was elected the department's first Chief, and Thurston Schmidt was elected Assistant Chief. On April 23rd 1946 a piece of property was purchased behind the building that now houses Fern and Moody's Liquor Store at the corner of Bradford Drive and Bardstown Road. On this land the first firehouse, a single story two-bay building, was completed in September of 1946. For some general information about Buechel, Kentucky view the Wikipedia article. |
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