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In being by July 2012 · Union Township, provider unit
The town does not run its own fire department; the territory does. Lakeville's fire protection runs through the Union-Lakeville Fire Protection Territory, with Union Township as the provider unit: the territory is named in the statute written for it (I.C. § 36-8-19, and the DLGF's 2023 fund schedules carry the territory's funds under Union Township's unit while the town unit carries no fire fund. The department is housed with the township offices at 117 S. Main St.; its scale, from the January 2026 town minutes reporting 2025, is some 400 calls, about 300 of them medical, most within the town limits. A 2019 OCRA grant of $500,000 to Union Township for fire station updates is the station's one documented capital event — public money, printed as such. The territory's formation instrument and date were tested at web-search strength only and remain unreached: gap G-GV-7 stands, its settlers the participating units' adopting ordinances and the DLGF formation determination.
This pass adds a fifth form, printed unmerged beside them: the exempt register for ZIP 46536 carries "Lakeville Volunteer Fire Department Inc of Lakeville," PO Box 223, classified public safety, exempt ruling 07/2024, care of Brad Sherman. A 2024 ruling is a tax-status date, not a founding; whether this corporation is the department, a support corporation, or a re-incorporation, no carrier reached states, and it is not equated with "Lakeville Fire Inc." The chief's identity at official strength remains gap G-GV-8 — the one reached naming, George Schafer, stands at aggregator strength only (settler: the department's own published roster). No carrier reached states the department's first organisation date, first chief, first truck, first station, or any station course before 117 S. Main St.; neither Chapman nor Howard names a Lakeville fire company, and the gap stands whole (settlers: the department's own records, trustee minutes, the Lakeville Standard, and the Tribune photograph archive). The fallen roll was tested at state-memorial search strength and returned no Lakeville line-of-duty death — a negative at that strength, its settler the PFFUI directory read by department.