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Ultimate Sacrifice

 On Friday, October 13, 1967, a fire was  consuming the Goeke auto dealership in downtown Noblesville.  Firefighters from across the region were fighting the huge blaze, which  spread to an adjacent 3-story building and downed power lines that fed  the city’s water pumps. Firefighters had to resort to tanker truck  shuttles to continue attacking the fire.

 Raymond E. Moulder, 28,  of the Fishers Volunteer Fire Department Assistant Chief and father of  five small children, was killed when crushed beneath a brick concrete  wall.  Bob Mikesell, veteran Westfield fireman, his eyes blurred by  tears and red rimmed by smoke, escaped death by inches when Moulder  pushed him to safety. 

His voice choked with emotion, Mikesell  said he and Moulder were in the alley at the rear of the Goeke Dodge –  Chrysler Auto Agency holding a hose line and directing a stream of water  into the blazing building.

Suddenly a puff of black smoke was  seen moments before an explosion.  Moulder shoved Mikesell in the  direction of the court house and shouted, “Get Out!”

The force of  the explosion blew the brick concrete-block wall of Goeke’s across the  alley into the south wall of White Oldsmobile.  The wall collapsed,  burying A/C Moulder beneath rubble and iron girders.

Bud Moulder  was a young father of five children, he was born July 3, 1939 in Bowling  Green, Ky., the son of Jacob and Dorothea Robinson Moulder.  He was  one-year old when the family moved to Fishers.  A graduate of Fishers  High School in 1958, he had been a member of the Fishers Fire Department  for the past seven years and was a nine-year employee of Ford Motor  Co., Indianapolis.  He and Virginia Ann Moore were married June 2,  1958.  Surviving were his wife and children:  Ginny, 9; James, 7; Susan,  8; Richard, 4; and David, age one.

50 years later, on October  14, 2017 the Fishers Fire Foundation in partnership with the Fishers  Fire Department announced the creation of the Bud Moulder Scholarship as  a way to celebrate Bud's life, to honor his family and his heroism.   His bravery has incurred a debt that we can never repay but for which  our community is eternally grateful.  His courage and sacrifice serves  as a monument that inspires and strengthens us for generations to come. 

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