Fire Rescue History

History of the Fire Department and Emergency Services in Madison Township

The Madison Township Fire Department was established in the early 1950’s with the Miltonville station opening first and the Poasttown station opening soon thereafter. In the earlier years you might have known the departments listed as North Madison Fire Department and South Madison Fire Department, both stations were governed by the Township Trustees but were ran by their own fire department officers.

2000

In the year 2000, the Township Trustees decided to merge the two fire departments as one with one Fire Chief and Assistant Chief’s in charge of their respective stations.

2006

In 2006 the Madison Life Squad Inc. contacted the Township Trustees and requested that the Township assume the responsibilities of EMS service for the township.

2018

As of 2018, the department handles approximately 1000 calls for service a year, calls such as medical assistance, structure fires, automobile crashes, brush fires, haz-mat calls, etc.

Currently

The Madison Township Fire Department currently operates (3) stations with (10) pieces of Fire and EMS apparatus, has approximately 45-50 members with half of those being part time members running EMS operations out of Station 153 at the intersection of SR122 and Mosiman Road, the Poasttown and Miltonville stations running paid call firefighters out of there stations.