Center Township Fire Department Roster

Chief Officer: James Wellnitz - Master firefighter 1989 including Arson Investigation, Fire Instructor II, Haz-Mat and fire prevention with 28 years total experience.

Business Officer: Joe Wellinski — 27 years experience with Center Township (Formerly president of corporation department)

Assistant Chief: Doug Heller- Fire fighter & former first responder with recertification pending. 9 years experience.

Captain: Brian Wellinski - Fire fighter since 1991 and 1 of 2 Father & Son teams. 13 years experience.

Dennis Hill — Master State Certified fire fighter with Haz-Mat, State Certified E.M.T. 15 years experience.

Greg Wallen- Master certified fire fighter, Certified Instructor, First Responder with 25 years experience.

Joe Frye — Registered Nurse, Haz-Mat, former Paramedic with San Bernardino Search & Rescue, former navy corpsman.

Tim Eisele — Fire fighter awaiting first Responder recertification 6 years experience.

Doug Davie- Fire fighter since 1976 with 18 years experience.

Brandon Davie- Father & Son team and 5-year fire fighter

Mike Blaze-Firefighter with 2 years experience

Chris Hill — Second Class Certified with 14 years experience.

Tony Pitman- Fire fighter former Captain on Scipio & Kingsbury departments. 13 years experience.

Spencer England- fire fighter.

Greg Perra-fire fighter.

Andrew Kmitta-firefighter.

Todd Jarka-firefighter.

8 of these 17 members served on the former department and 12 of the 17 members have multi-year experience in firefighting. The new team has 175 years combined experience.