Police/Fire/EMS

The Ada-Liberty Township Joint EMS squad is familiar with busy years. The Icon reported in 2019 that the department received 527 calls. Fast forward to 2021: The department had calls for 626 runs, with 80 calls in December alone, the most 911 calls in a single month in the department's history.

Tom Miller, EMS chief, reported these stats at the January 17 meeting of the ambulance board, which is composed of Jeff Acheson, representing Liberty Township; Shelia Coressel, representing the Village of Ada, and Terry Keiser, member at large. The board meets on the third Monday of each month at 5:30 p.m. in the station on Gilbert Street.

In a followup interview, Miller broke down the 911 calls by type, noting that crews sometimes find an incident involves issues not initially reported to dispatchers:

Updated January 22.

The Ada-Liberty Fire Department was dispatched to a mobile home fire at 546 East Lincoln Avenue, Lot 5, shortly after 10 a.m. on January 21, 2022.

EMS chief Tom Miller reported that there were no injuries.

Officer John Iten of the Ada Police Department reported that the resident who escaped the fire did not know its cause.

Homes on both sides of the fire were damaged and the residents displaced; assistance was provided by the Red Cross.