The Spencer Fire Department will be losing two of its longest serving firefighters to retirement at the end of June. Ben Grimmius and Butch Sierck have served Spencer, and the surrounding areas, for more than a combined 100 years since 1969 and 1961 respectively. “I came on when my neighbor was on the Fire Department,” Grimmius said. “He was over one time, and we were sitting, having a Pepsi out on the back steps and had a fire call downtown. So, we took off and went to it. Then I became interested, and he said, ‘Why don’t you sign up?’” “The day I got on was the day the country club out there burned,” Sierck said.