History

Fire protection services were initially provided to Courtland Township by the Harvard Fire Department .  In the spring of 1991, Courtland’s board of trustees  voted to start their own fire department.   Mickey Davis who at the time was serving as Oakfield Township’s part-time fire chief was chosen as Courtland’s part-time fire chief.   This served the residents of Oakfield and Courtland until 2012 when the board chose to make the role of fire chief a full time position.  Chief Davis served as full time fire chief until his retirement in July, 2016.   The new fire chief is Steve Mojzuk who continues in this position to this day.

In those early years we acquired some rather old but still very functional trucks which served the department well.  In the beginning we had just one 500-gallon fire engine with which to fight fires (a 1970 classic) and a 2,000-gallon tanker for hauling water.  Rockford Ambulance also donated an old ambulance to us for our medical and rescue calls.  Much has changed since those early years!