In 1945 the volunteer department bagan providing limited services to rual communities.

It was a volunteer department that had to use a church bell for alarms, and had only ladders and leather buckets to fight fires.

In 1891, the volunteer department was disbanded as the city grew and the need for a full-time force of career firefighters became evident.

The department, like all volunteer departments, relies on the citizens of its town for donations and more.

Additionally, most all career departments as well as many volunteer departments have emergency medical assets at their immediate disposal.