A public hearing was held this past Monday on the development of an Emergency Service District in Bergheim, and about 32 residents and Bergheim VFD volunteers filled the commissioners’ court with mixed messages.
The residents of Bergheim successfully have petitioned the county to have a proposition on the November ballot to form an Emergency Service District established to cover the Bergheim Volunteer Fire Department’s Service area. Three hundred signatures were required to call for the Kendall County Commissioners to add the proposition.
“If you’d asked me 10 years ago if I ever thought we’d be in the position we are now at the Bergheim Fire Department, I’d say, ‘No way,’” said Bergheim VFD Chief Adam Hawkins, who has been the chief for six years and a volunteer firefighter for 20 years. “In fact, when I head Bergheim Fire Department was going to be a fire department, I said, ‘Why?’ … As of today, the 11th of April for 2022 we’ve already responded to 153 runs. We probably have another 20 or 25 runs we should’ve responded to, in my opinion, that we were not dispatched for.”
