VIDEO: The Eaton Rapids Fire Department is getting ready to celebrate 150 years as a department later this month. I caught up with the fire chief, who's been here for more than 40 of those years. He's showing me some of the biggest challenges his firefighters have faced in recent history.
Meet Eaton Rapids fire chief Roger McNutt.
"It's a rich history, of people volunteering their time, to protect the community," Eaton Rapids Fire Chief Roger McNutt said.
He joined the fire department back in 1979, and in 1999 he got an opportunity of a lifetime as fire chief. but that comes with scenes he can't forget.
"A car accident where there were some deaths in it, and it was before we had our hydraulic tools, we had chains and stuff like that, they run into a tree and flip the car up on its side and crushed the roof down on them and we had to use our chains to get them out," Eaton Rapids Fire Chief Roger Mcnutt said.