• HOWARD LAKE COMMUNITY GUIDE 2009 • dollars. A fire board, including members of the fire department, Howard Lake City Council, and Middleville and Victor township board members, meet annually to set the department budget. The fire department currently has two fully-equipped pumper trucks, a tanker truck, a heavy rescue unit, a first responder truck, a grass rig, and a Gamm Goat for grass fires. The members also proudly maintain a bit of their past with a 1959 pumper truck and a 1926 Ford Model T pumper truck for parades and special events. Current officers of the Howard Lake Fire Department are: Chief Joe Drusch; First Assistant Chief Steve Halverson; Second Assistant Chief Tom Diers; Captains Paul Utne, Eric Stoll, and Craig Loebertmann; Secretary Joe Sherod; Ambulance Director Dave Peterson; and Assistant Ambulance Director Jeff Granrud. While being a fire department member requires a great deal of time and dedication, members will tell you that they are very proud of their commitment to protecting their neighbors
and enjoy their time on the department.
New life-saving equipment acquisition The newest lifesaving equipment that the Howard Lake Fire Department and Ambulance acquired in July 2009 is a Lucas device. It is an automated, power CPR machine that can continually perform CPR as long as necessary. “It is an air-driven, mechanical CPR device,” explained Assistant Ambulance Director Jeff Granrud, “that has a suction cup that is placed on the sternum so it depresses the chest and on the up-cycle it pulls the sternum back up so it can circulate blood better.” Proceeds from fundraisers such as the Good Neighbor Days four-wheeler raffle “create an avenue to make money to buy equipment that doesn’t fall into the fire department or ambulance budget.” “We’re excited to have AEDs stationed throughout town, and fortunate to have the Lucas device in the ambulance fulltime,” Granrud explained.
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