{"id":24664,"date":"2025-03-11T12:10:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T16:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=24664"},"modified":"2025-03-11T12:10:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T16:10:59","slug":"hakes-named-pike-firefighter-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/hakes-named-pike-firefighter-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Hakes named Pike Firefighter of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

DANE FUELLING<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Decatur native and Bellmont High graduate Brian Hakes has been named Pike Township’s Firefighter of the Year for 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hakes, 31, was honored Saturday at the department’s annual ceremony to recognize firefighters and civilians for notable achievements and milestones in 2024. A large crowd attended at an Indianapolis Colts facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Pike fire department has five stations with 166 professional firefighters and medics supporting a township of over 83,000 residents on the northwest side of Indianapolis. The department protects over 42 square miles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hakes has been with the department six years, hired in April of 2019 after being head of security at Von Maur in Indy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A 2012 graduate and a standout in sports at Bellmont, Hakes was a member of Sectional championship teams in football, baseball and wrestling. Accepting a baseball scholarship at Indiana Tech in Fort Wayne, he earned first-team NAIA All-American status as a catcher his senior year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He also was an all-city hockey player in Fort Wayne and a member of several travel teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is the son of Greg and Jill Hakes of Decatur, the grandson of Donna and Bob Shraluka of Decatur and the late IV and Carolyn Hakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brian and his family \u2013 wife, Bobbi; daughter Blakely (7), and son Beau (almost 2) \u2013 reside in Fishers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beginning this week, Hakes is serving as an instructor at Pike’s Fire Academy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another Bellmont grad, Caleb Hankenson, is also a member of the Pike Fire Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2017, Pike Fire achieved ISO Class 1 rating, being the first department in the state of Indiana to achieve this status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The department made 14,055 runs in 2023, mostly fire and EMS calls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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