John Meekins, "Perry Township Firemen Head into a Second Year," Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Courier-Tribune, December 31, 1970, p. 16. NOTE: The information noted below was abstracted by Randi Richardson from a photocopy of the original article. Said article was accompanied by one picture. The Perry Township Volunteer Fire Department was identified as the oldest of the fringe area volunteer fire departments in Monroe County. It was incorporated in 1964, but there was no real interest in building the department until the City of Bloomington announced that it was "getting out of the fire protection business for the outlying areas." Hal Rayborn, the Perry Township trustee, set out to build the department in 1969, and on January 2, 1970, the department took its first call. Chuck Oakes is the fire chief. There are 28 members of the department. On January 1, 1971, volunteer fire department in Van Buren and Bloomington Township will inaugurate their service.