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Fort
Oglethorpe Fire & Rescue Station 8 opened in December 1981. The
first pieces of equipment housed there were a 1948 Mack Engine
that had a 500 gpm pump and a 1981 International Tanker with a
1500 gallon tank. There were fifteen original volunteers to be
trained for the opening of the station. The original members
were Gary McGhee, Gary Carlock, Winford Workman, Wendell Cain,
John Lewis, Ed Forsyth, Richard Ward, Corky Dunn, Paul Headrick,
Preston Trundle, Bill Cook, Bill Cobb, Alan Brown, Jim White, Jim Dietz, Jim Hall, and
Bud Hatfield.
Bud
Hatfield was assigned the task of training this crew for the
station. There were no officers at the station when it was
opened and Chief Cook placed Gary McGhee in charge. The
timeline of station officers at Station 8 are:
Capt. Gary McGhee December 1981 –
March 1991
Capt. Gary Carlock April 1991 –
May 1992
Capt. Bill Cobb
June 1992 – December 2005
Capt. Ron Kibble January 2005
– Present
Station 8
received their first alarm in January 1982. Their first working
structure fire was not until May 1982 on Brownwood Circle. In
January 1985, there was a structure fire. It was a memorable
alarm due to the record low temperature of 10 below zero and it
was Super bowl Sunday.
In 1985,
Station 8 received a Ford Chassis with 1000 gpm pumper. Also
during 1985 there was a new set of jaws purchased for Station 8
made possible by the Governor’s Discretionary Fund.
Chief Camp
purchased several apparatus when he became chief in 1991 and
that brought a new (used) engine to Station 8. The engine was
a 1972 Mack Pumper. This engine is now housed at Station 1 as
Wagon 1. In 1995, Chief Camp purchased a new engine for each
station. Station 8 received a 1996 Spartan. As of
September 2008, the first line engine is a 2008 E-One Rescue
Pumper on a Typhoon Chassis. |
