Get Well Soon Captain Mike Long

Captain Michael Long of Neighboring Camp Taylor Fire Department was recently injured when he fell through a floor during a four alarm house fire. All of us at The Buechel Fire Department would like to wish Captain Long a speedy recovery. We look forward to working alongside him again in the near future.

For more information check out this article at the Courier-Journal website

Thank You For Your Crusade Donations!

The WHAS Crusade for Children collects money for agencies, schools, and hospitals to better the lives of special needs children. The Crusade has raised more than $133 Million since it's establishment in 1954. The Buechel Fire Department has collected over a million dollars since we started collecting for the Crusade.

The Crusade collection was especially important to us this year because we were collecting money in honor of Major Terry Cannon who passed away earlier this year in the line of duty. We are proud to announce that we collected more money for special needs children in Terry's honor than we have ever collected in one year for the Buechel Fire Department. We could have never done this without the help of everyone in our district and two special donations from outside our district. Since the beginning of the Crusade for Children local fire departments have participated in a friendly competition to see which department could donate the most money to the Crusade. On Saturday June 5th of Crusade weekend we were contacted by Camp Taylor and Okolona Fire Departments and informed both departments would not be turning in any money this year and instead donating all the money collected by their departments to the Buechel Fire Protection District Crusade total in memory of Major Terry Cannon. These donations represented an entire year of collecting by these two departments. We were truly overwhelmed by this expression of brotherhood and solidarity by our neighboring fire departments.

The Buechel, Camp Taylor, And Okolona Fire Departments are proud to announce a combined Crusade for Children collection total in memory of Major Terry Cannon of;

$154,796.73

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who donated their valuable time to collecting money, organizing events, and preparing food at all three departments during the Crusade Collection.

Update From the Communications Bureau

A lot has been going on in the Communications Bureau over the past few months. We are on track for the rollout of the new 800Mhz radio system. This represents a very exciting upgrade in the effectiveness of fire ground communications and firefighter safety. Metrosafe has been working with the fire districts for several years to get everything installed and operational. Everything has been meticulously tested and is on track for the system to go live in mid-June. After the official changeover the existing radio system will remain in service as a complete backup communications system.

Any firefighter who missed the special training conducted by metrosafe needs to make arrangements to go over the operation of the new radios, Contact Sgt. Cody Weiss to set up a time. Quick reference cards have been placed on the visor of every apparatus and include the fleetmap of channels and some basic reminders.

Listen to Our Communications Live

When the fire department gets a call for service units utilize 2-way radios to communicate with each other. Our radio communications can be listened to with a radio scanner available from electronics stores. It is also possible to listen to our radio traffic over the internet at the RadioReference.com website. On that page scroll down to the available feeds and click on the speaker icon in the listen column next to the feed you would like to hear..

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Buechel Fire Protection District
4101 Bardstown Road
Louisville KY 40218

Phone 502.491.0085

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