FIRE STATION PROFILE — North Carolina
Weaverville Fire Department Phone: 828-645-3500 Community Outreach: Our community outreach starts with each response as our companies are the primary outreach ambassadors for our department. They engage and assist each citizen they contact as well as our businesses and leaders while performing pre-fire plans and assisting with community events. Our Fire Marshal office manages fire prevention activities within our schools as well as at senior events that typically arise from our faith-based organizations.We are a permanent checking station for child passenger safety through WNC Safe Kids and work to ensure our younger citizenry are safe with family members who are well versed Chief Ted Williams in installing their child safety seats safely and correctly. Department Name: Weaverville Fire Our department assists with the local “Cops Department for Kids” toy drive that is held annually and County: Buncombe sees hundreds of children get a wonderful Type Department: Career Structure: Municipal Department covering Christmas that otherwise would have been town limits and a county contract area around very limited at best. We participate with our businesses to assist the town in safety days and have assisted in the state ISO: 4/5 smoke alarm canvassing event for several years. Number of Stations: 1 Number of Apparatus: Pumpers: 2 Aerials: Top Two concerns in your community: 1 Specialty: 5 1) C oncerns within our community are Do you provide EMS? Yes the corona virus and the challenges and What type: BLS ALS FR stresses that it has brought with regards Specialty Operations: (list all) Swift Water to how we respond and how we work Rescue,Trench, Structural Collapse,Wildland diligently to protect our elderly and most Firefighting vulnerable citizens while also adapting Annual Budget: $2,507,000 to a very new way of doing things Area Covered Square miles: Approx. 25 within the community. Population: Approx 23,000 2) Ability to keep up with an ever-growing Total Runs: 1893 Fire: 1009 EMS: 884 demand for service in a town that is Chief: (Name) Ted Williams seeing significant growth. Our town Chief Officers: Deputy Chief Jayson leadership has done a great job at Harwood, Battalion Chief David Privette, keeping us within that demand window Battalion Chief Michael Hunter, Battalion Chief but there is always a concern the growth Ray Blackwell and Fire Marshal Kile Davis may out pace resources. Other Officers: (list number of Captains, What are you doing for fundraising? Lieutenants, etc.) 3 captains, 3 Lieutenants We are supported by town and county tax Number of Members: 34 Paid: 34 dollars and do not fundraise for operational Volunteer: 0 expense.We do participate in the annual Address: 3 Monticello Road Weaverville, NC “Cops for Kids” toy drive and we also partner 28787 with other town departments to support the Website: weavervillenc.org/departments/ “Pink Patch Project” to raise awareness and fire-department/ funds for women’s cancer patients.
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What upgrades will you make in your department this year? With the current downturn due to the COVID-19 pandemic we do not have any significant upgrades planned for this budget year. Our only major replacement will be a complete set of e-draulics rescue tools to replace an unserviceable set currently in use.
As we are located within the mountains of western North Carolina there are multiple urban interface areas that must be continually evaluated and pre planned to affect the protection of our citizens and keep our firefighters safe at the same time.
Accomplishments: We are very proud that through aggressive What special hazards or unique fire prevention activities (inspections and businesses in your community? education) and with the help of our automatic We have several manufacturing plants that aid departments we continue to have a very have been repurposed into smaller leased small fire loss percentage compared to the spaces within the larger building.These have protected values within our communities. created a number of challenges with regards to We have a staff that is committed to continual ensuring the fire code is met and maintained training and being the best they can be for our throughout the process of new tenants arriving community. and customizing their spaces.
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