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2020–2022 and current
Two steps, not one: the territory was created in 2020 and expanded in 2022. The town's own fire territory page states that the "New Carlisle, Olive Twp., Hudson Lake Fire Territory was created in 2020. Until then, the Town and outlying areas were serviced by an all-volunteer fire department." Its remodeled station stands in downtown New Carlisle and "houses 5 paid firefighters at all times, including 1 paramedic"; all its firefighters are EMTs, and it runs two ambulances. Fire Chief: Josh Schweizer. The second step stands in the Department of Local Government Finance's Final Determination IML22-010: in the 2022 expansion the Town and Olive Township were already participating units, Hudson Township in La Porte County was added, and Olive Township is the provider unit; the Town adopted its ordinance and the townships their resolutions on 28 March 2022, and the levy petition was submitted 31 May 2022. The money trail shows in the town minutes: Ordinance #1415 of 20 July 2021, amending #1403, raised station-renovation spending from $750,000 to $1.4 million, explained to the council by Trustee Miller; on 5 October 2021 the council accepted the 2022 fire territory budget 3–1. The territory's executive board as constituted on 13 September 2023: President Brian Gray of Hudson; members Tim Creason, Bob Middlebrook, and Keith Batzel for Olive; Marcy Kauffman and Jerry Colanese for the Town; Dave Wilson for Hudson; with Chief Schweizer and Assistant Chief Chad Hess. A name variant in the minutes of 12 March 2024 — "Olive Township, New Carlisle, Hudson Lake Fire Territory Executive Board" — prints as the minutes give it.