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Show some Small Town Pride
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Posted about 1 month ago How many people show their small town pride? This is where the fire department will go around and put smoke alrams in the residents houses or maybe do parades and block parties. Tell me(us) some fun stories from your small town..... |
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| Posted about 1 month ago WE RECENTLEY HAD A FIRE IN A DUPLEX THAT HAD 5 FAMILY MEMBERS ENTRAPPED. WE RESCUED ALL 5 BUT WITHIN A WEEK 4 HAD DIED. THE ONLY SURVIVOR WAS A 15 DAY OLD INFANT. THE FOUR THAT DIED WERE A 2 Y/O BOY A 4 Y/O BOY AND THIER MOTHER AND FATHER. AS A SMALL DEPARTMENT WE PLAY MANY ROLES. I PULLED 3 OF THE M OUT THEN WENT OUTSIDE TO ACT IN MY OTHER CAPACITY AS A PARAMEDIC. I TREATED THE 2 Y/O THE FATHER AND THE 15 DAY OLD. ALLMEMBERS OF THE FAMILY WERE IN CARDIAC ARREST BUT WERE ALIVE BY THE TIME THEY REACHED THE HOSPITAL BUT WERE TOO FAR GONE TO MAINTAIN LIFE BEYOND THE WEEK. THIS COMMUNITY PULLED TOGETHER AND PROVIDED EVERYTHING FOR NOT ONLY THE FIREFIGHTERS AND POLICE ON THE SCENE BUT THEY RAISED FUNDS FOR THE FAMILY ALSO. WE HAVE STARTED A MISSION TO ASSURE THAT EVERY MEMBER OF OUR COMMUNITY HAS A WORKING SMOKE DETECTOR BY GOING DOOR TO DOOR AND AGAIN THE COMMUNITY HAS PULLED THROUGH WITH DONATIONS AND SUPPORT. THESE ARE THE TIMES I'M THANKFUL FOR SMALL TOWN LIFE.... |
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| Posted about 1 month ago That is an amazing story there. It goes to show that it is important for a small town to pull together. I like to feel we do the same things in our hometown. We like to help everyone that we can. |
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| Posted about 1 month ago Our fire department opens up for election day and has a bake sale. We also have an annual dumpster day. We also provide EMS services to our community. In fact, one of our firefighters houses burnt down, so we opened up our hall for him to store his belongings, wash clothes, have thanksgiving and christmas dinner until his new house was built. |
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| Posted about 1 month ago at christmas time our department sets up a sleigh on top of one of our pumpers and the ass. chief dresses up like santa. and we go around the village handing out candy canes to the kids and play christmas songs over the pa systems. |
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| Posted about 1 month ago That's a really original idea I like it.. |
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| Posted about 1 month ago Opening weekend of fishing season we have a Fisherman's Breakfast. We empty out the bays at the dept and bring in grills, tables etc and serve up- sausage, eggs, hash browns and pancakes, coffee, milk and juice from Sat at midnight til Sunday at noon. And then in June we have Founders Day- parade, basketball tournament, lots of food and fun. This year PD is having a $5.00 jail and $5.00 bail and cone campaign to raise money fpr Special Olympics with our help. |
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| Posted about 1 month ago Our county has a smoke detector program that if you ask for one we will put it in for free. In out community fire prevention week is one of the most fun weeks we have. We go to the elementary school for 3 days. We show off the equipment , cut cars, give gifts to teachers and students, we use a fire safety house program, we've had the trauma helicopter land, forest service demonstrations, we even jump rope with the kids, we eat with them in their cafe'. It's a great time of interaction. |
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| Posted about 1 month ago We do two or three parades a year, usually putting in an engine, ambulance and brush truck. We also have an antique that we put in the parades as well, it holds all the kids. We also will do block parties, there are a couple throughout the year. We do a Halloween Spook House in October, the major city we're close too, Grand Junction, they have a farmers market every Thurs during the summer and one week the theme is public safety, so we take an engine downtown for that as well. |
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| Posted about 1 month ago It astounds me how many ideas there are for getting the community involved in fire safety. You have all expressed really good ideas and if its ok I'll probably steal some of them. |
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| Posted about 1 month ago We did a parade on Memorial Day. Had a lot of fun with it. You can check the pictures out on my profile. We also did a chicken barbeque. We actually sold out 225 chickens. It was a good day before the rain came. |
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| Posted about 1 month ago We are proud of our department here in Cobleskill. We have open houses for both Fire Prevention and EMS weeks with truck rides, pizza, clowns, face painting, seatbelt demos from state police, etc. We also open our doors for the community on election night with a Pancake supper, this kind of makes it easier for families who are just getting out of work and need to vote, they can just have dinner at our house for 5 bucks all you can eat instead of cooking. We even share half of our parking lot during the day time for village parking to make it easier for shoppers and business owners to find parking. This is a great group! Moose Brian "Moose" Jones
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| Posted about 1 month ago Hey Moose, you guys have a lot of fun out there. We wish we could do rides in the trucks for the kids. I guess it is just something the chiefs or commissioners just do not want to do. I asked about filling pools and such as well and I was given a stupid look. I wish I had some more Small Town Pride! |
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| Posted about 1 month ago every christmas we have the christmas in verona celebration, one of our members owns the buisness that does the horse drawn carrige rides in down town cincinatti. we give carrige rides, we have santa, hot drinks and cookies, and invite the comunity in to the fire house to see all of our equipment. and then at the end of the night, how ever much money was made the membership gets together and votes on a needy family in the district that deserves the money we raised. it is a great suprise for that family at christmas time. the first year we did this. the father of the family we gave 2,000 dollars to, actualy passed out. but it was all ok we just had to give him the check in the E.R. RB |
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| Posted 22 days ago Today the guardian of the infant from the fire I was talking about earlier brought her to the station for all of us to see and love on. It was a very special moment and really meant alot to all of us. She is healthy and doing great and now has an entire fire department of family. The police and fire in our city are very close and they were also there and it was like a family reunion. The guardian is the mother that perished in the fires' brother and he is a county police officer a couple of counties away and he promised to keep us up to date on her life... it was a very emotional thing but in a good way. |
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| Posted 22 days ago In our town we have a heritage day festival and the fd sets up a tent with public education materials we give away and we have some emt's on 4 wheelers to respond in case something happens, we also have the same thing on the 4th of july and on halloween we have games a food for the kids in the community so that they will have something to do that is safe and will keep them out of trouble. And at christmas time we meet with the principal and counselors at the elementary school to find out about students who's family dosen't have alot of money and may need help and we will buy toys and clothes and santa will take the stuff to them. |
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| Posted 22 days ago We of course do the parades, but we had a boot drive for the department a few months ago and in just 3 hours raised over $2000. Also, we provided EMS service along with the local ambulance company at the relay for life cancer walk not too long ago. We are a very small department with just 17 active members but no matter what the call, MFR, Fire, MVA, whatever, everyone that is available is there. Our chief has told use that he will never send us into anything that he won't be in right beside us. |
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| Posted 22 days ago On my dept we of course do the parades and that kind of stuff. Every year (this weekend infact) we have a big tenderloin dinner for the community as a fundraiser. Usually dont make a whole lot of money off of it but its great PR. We have a drunk driving crash simulation for the high school around prom time. A couple cars get donated to us from the local scrap yard and we set them up in a crash scenario and show them it's no cake walk, you can see it hits home for a good majority of them. Every May the college has a big party and we pull out our tankers and set up a mud volleyball pit for them. Plus in the summer we go around and fill swimming pools with our tankers, alot of departments dont do that anymore but its a good money maker for us. |
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| Posted 20 days ago FIRETEC31 says ...
EXCELLENT news Firetec31, Im happy for you guys and Im glad you had a nice visit with her. Great Job brother!! Ningpo, we used to fill pools also, but we stopped doing it because we were actually SUED by a family that was angry about a couple of small tire ruts in their grass...they were told about the possibility of ruts but he just wanted water fast so his family could swim...then he tried to sue the dept. The judge threw it out and told him to find better things to do than to pick on the very same people that will show up if your house is on fire and will save your life, and all of your belongings too and they do it for FREE. Chief called it quits with pool fillings ever since. Its a shame, that was a good source of pump training, tanker shuttles, relays...oh well. We also did the Santa Clause at the firehouse thing but in my old department. They dont do that here in my dept now. But in my old one we had the kids at the station, had hot cocoa and cookies and candy canes, pizza, cider, and the mayor read "T'was the night before christmas" to the kids. Than, for the grand finale, we had the pumper call the base on the radio and say they were coming in with a visitor...the crowd of kids would be listening intently, than the pumper came screaming into the parking lot with their lights going and Santa jumps out of the Jumpseat with a bag of toys for all the kids. We went to the Dollar store and bought about 100 toys, 50 boyish toys and 50 girlish. It was a memorable moment to see the look in the kids eyes when they sat on santa's lap and got their toy, especially when they left for the night and thanked us all....Great times!!
Brian "Moose" Jones
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