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Welcome to West Roane County Volunteer Fire Department!
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- HIGH FIRE DANGER ALERT: Burning Permits Required October 15 through May 15.
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Huge 'Yard Sale' May 3-5
West Roane County Volunteer Fire Department will host its annual "elegant junk" yard 'sale' at Station 1 on Pumphouse Road near Rockwood on May 3, 4, and 5 (Thursday through Saturday) from 8:00 AM on Thursday (7:00 AM Friday and Saturday) all day each day until dark.
Bring the whole family; donate some goods and get some bargains! There will be refreshments, fire trucks, and more!
Please donate your serviceable items to help this worthy 501(c)(3) charity. Please call 865-354-8201 days, evenings, or weekends to arrange for pick-up or to drop-off your slightly used items.
Please limit the amount of clothing donated since we have limited space. Couches and bedding are not accepted. Also, there is limited need for old televisions and computers.
The fire department needs your help. Please help these brave volunteers help you.
Look through our photos for albums from previous Yard 'Sales!'
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Change Your Smoke and CO Alarm Batteries When You Change Your Clocks
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is urging consumers to replace the batteries in their smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) alarms this weekend for Daylight Saving Time. This year, Daylight Saving Time begins on Sunday, March 11. Fresh batteries allow smoke and CO alarms to do their jobs saving lives by alerting families of a fire or a buildup of deadly carbon monoxide in their homes.
CPSC estimates there was a yearly average of 386,300 residential fires resulting in nearly 2,400 deaths between 2006 and 2008.
Two-thirds of fire deaths occur in homes where there are no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms. That is why it is important to replace batteries at least once every year and to test your alarms every month to make sure they work. CPSC recommends consumers have smoke alarms on every level of their home, outside bedrooms and inside each bedroom.
CPSC estimates there was an annual average of 183 unintentional non-fire CO poisoning deaths associated with consumer products between 2006 and 2008. CO is called the "invisible killer," because it is a colorless, odorless and poisonous gas. Because of this, people may not know they are being poisoned. Carbon monoxide is produced by the incomplete burning of fuel in various products, including furnaces, portable generators, fireplaces, cars and charcoal grills.
That is why it is important to have working CO alarms in the home, on each level and outside each sleeping area.
Source: FEMA
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Nineteen Firefighters Complete Training Courses
February, 2012: West Roane firefighters completed required training courses this month, including Emergency Vehicle Operations, Vanessa K. Free, and Blood-borne Pathogens. Classes, which included both classroom on February 4 and field training on February 11, were taught by Brian Grief with the Tennessee Association of Rescue Squads.
WRCVFD Chief Charlie Redwine writes, I am very proud of this group for taking time out from their schedule to ensure that WRCVFD remains compliant in just one of many tasks required in firefighting. I might add that Brian Grief did a very good job and I am very appreciative of him doing this for us. Thanks again to all for a job well done.
Photographs from the training courses are available in the Photos section of this site: February, 2012: Firefighter Training -- Emergency Vehicle Operations, Vanessa K. Free, Blood-borne Pathogens (photos by Chief Charlie Redwine).
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Volunteer Recognition Dinner
WRCVFD's annual volunteer recognition dinner was held Tuesday, December 6th, at 7:00 pm in Station No. 1 on Pumphouse Road. John McNeely was named Firefighter of the Year for 2011, and all volunteers were honored.
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Call 9-1-1 If You Smell or See Smoke
On August 30, a 40-acre wildfire in Midway raged near two schools. This and other recent wildfires should remind us to always call 9-1-1 when smoke is present. Yes, the smoke may be from a controlled burn. However, here is a fact: controlled burns are the leading cause of wildfire.
When you call 9-1-1 to report smoke, insist the dispatcher notify the fire department. It is not up to the dispatcher to make tactical decisions; leave the decision about whether the smoke is from just a controlled burn to the fire chief.
Also, please consider not burning. Roane County is officially at an abnormally dry drought level. Our woods are full of excess fuel. It is best not to burn at all.
In the meantime, please call 9-1-1 if you smell smoke.
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Updated 9/8/2010: West Roane County Volunteer Fire Department will be handing out free 10-year smoke alarms at Station #1 at 1303 Pumphouse Road, Rockwood, Tennessee, from 9 AM to 1 PM on Saturdays starting September 4 while supplies last.
A grant from FEMA is providing 538 smoke detectors. Volunteers from West Roane VFD wrote the grant application that enabled this giveaway.
Households in the West Roane service area--outside Rockwood city limits--are eligible. On this map, look inside the dashed red lines but outside the golden area of Rockwood proper.
Residents will be given detectors on a first-come, first served basis. Preference will be given to low-income households. Up to two detectors per household are allowed.
Correct placement of smoke detectors is very important. Residents who want help with installation of the detectors can schedule an appointment for West Roane VFD volunteers to properly install the devices.
This giveaway will be repeated every Saturday until the detectors are all given out. For more information, call 865-354-8201.
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Every year in the United States, about 3,000 people die in home fires. Most of these deaths occurred in homes that didn’t have a working smoke alarm.
The United States Fire Administration’s Install. Inspect. Protect. Campaign is aimed at encouraging Americans to practice fire safety by 1) installing and maintaining smoke alarms and residential fire sprinklers, which can help save the lives of residents and fire fighters, 2) practicing fire escape plans, and 3) performing a home safety walk-through to remove fire hazards from the home. Install. Inspect. Protect. also recognizes firefighters and stresses the fact that the children of firefighters want their fathers and mothers to come home safely.
When both smoke alarms and fire sprinklers are present in a home, the risk of dying in a fire is reduced by 82 percent, when compared to a residence without either. According to the National Fire Protection Association, between 2003-2006 almost two-thirds of home fire deaths resulted from fires in homes with no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms.
The USFA offers a few helpful tips on smoke alarms and sprinklers:
- Place properly installed and maintained smoke alarms both inside and outside of sleeping areas and on every level of your home.
- Get smoke alarms that can sound fast. The U.S. Fire Administration recommends that every home and place where people sleep be equipped with both ionization and photoelectric smoke alarms or dual sensor smoke alarms, which contain both ionization and photoelectric smoke sensors.
- Test smoke alarms monthly and change alkaline batteries at least once every year, or as instructed. You can use a date you already know, like your birthday or when you change your clocks as a reminder.
- If possible, install residential fire sprinklers in your home.
- Avoid painting or covering the fire sprinkler, because that will affect the sensitivity to heat.
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