Fire of the fire brigade in Utica holding fire areas vote

Jeffersonville, in. (Wave) – Jeffersonville Leader were stopped on Wednesday by Clark County's commissioners.

The city council was supposed to vote for the creation of a fire area with the Utica Township Fire District, the body that used to work with Jamey Noel to provide a fire brigade.

But the Commissioners have released the entire Utica Fire Board, which most likely kills the efforts to improve the fire and sickness services in Jeffersonville and Utica.

“The entire work we put into this are negated,” said Jason Sharp, deputy head of the Jeffersonville fire brigade.

He said that Jeffersonville Fire will continue to offer the rest of this year for the emergency services for Utica, but if the two bodies cannot finish the fire area's plan by the end of the month, this plan will die on the vine.

“We saw a lot of growth in our East End, especially in River Ridge. I think it was getting faster than expected. It was exhausting in our resources, ”said Sharp.

The plan was to build more fireplaces, buy more fire engines and start the ambulance service at a price of $ 30 million. Sharp said they needed the resources to better serve River Ridge. Utica's chairman of the CEO, Joe Jarles, said that Noels Budget of 141,000 US dollars is artificially low and cannot support a fire brigade.

“It was very unstable and we saw reporting and care that were really on the entire board,” said Sharp.

Jarles said his lawyers plan to question the dismissal of the board. When your discharge is, we do not know whether new board members continue several legal proceedings that the district has submitted to stolen money from Noel.

The Commissioners of Clark County appointed the board of directors Farm Insurance Agent Welby Edwards on Wednesday. When Wave called him, he said, he did not answer any questions and put on. Wave also asked State Farm whether Edwards, as an agent, was considered a house insurance and position to monitor fire protection as a conflict. We haven't heard yet.

The fire area is controversial. School districts and other cities, on the other hand, because they tried to defend their property tax base.

But even while it was in prison, it was clear that Jamey Noel's crimes in Clark County occupied a long shadow about public security.

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