I don’t think I will be a Walmart greeter – but I haven’t ruled it out.” I don’t think I’ll lie around and watch TV. I’ll leave the house at 6:30 and go out and do something. “I won’t have any excuses not to get things done. “But I’ll miss it all – working with the crews, working with the residents, with businesses with county agencies.”ĭuring his years with the department Stumpf has worked on the county fire investigative team, the Greater Hamilton Safety Council, the Butler County Incident Management Team and the Butler County Fire Chiefs Association. I have antique tractors and machinery to work on and a good-sized garden,’’ Stumpf said. “I don’t know yet what I’ll do, but I’ll keep busy. It was under his direction the department converted from volunteer to a combination career and part-time department. He leaves with the distinction of being the first full-time and longest-serving fire chief (he was named chief in 1985 full-time in 1994) the township’s history. Saturday, his first official day of retirement, Stumpf joins their ranks. “We’ve still got people in the community who were volunteers that stayed involved, that still feel like they are part of the department that we didn’t push out.” He joined a brotherhood of firefighters – including 250 to 300 who have left the department “but are still proud of being a member,’’ Stumpf says. That sense of duty soon turned into a passion for firefighting that continued for five decades. “It seemed to be a good thing to do to be involved, to be a contributing part of the community. I was always about helping,” Stumpf said. So after talking to a neighbor who was a firefighter, Stumpf – who was working in the construction industry for John Keehner – joined the then volunteer department.
Rather, it was a sense of duty instilled in him by his father: If you live in a community, you give back to the community. LIBERTY TOWNSHIP – It wasn’t a passion for firefighting that prompted Paul Stumpf to join the Liberty Township Fire Department 45 years ago.
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