Our Department Today
 

Our district now covers approximately 72 square miles which includes manufacturing facilities, urban and rural residential, businesses, a major highway that links two interstates and a railway that runs east and west the entire length of our district. We currently have an ISO rating of 6 within the town limits and the Highway 70 corridor, outside of these areas our ISO rating is a 9. The department now has two stations providing fire suppression and advanced medical response in our district. We also provide and receive automatic mutual aid with six neighboring departments and the City of Salisbury Fire Department. This entire response area covers approximately 150-200 square miles. Until 2003 we were strictly a volunteer department but due to the large number of delayed response times on calls during the day the Board of Directors’ felt it was necessary to add part time paid personnel. We now have one station staffed with three part time firefighters from 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Monday thru Friday. We have 31 active volunteer firefighters working out of two stations that not only respond with the 15 part time personnel they also answer all calls after peak hours and on the weekends. The past couple of years we have added several new pieces of apparatus to our fleet. The apparatus that has been added to the fleet is a 1983 Mack with a 1500 GPM pump that is a reserve engine, a 2003 Chevrolet Suburban functioning as a Medical Responder unit, a 2003 Ford Crown Victoria that is the Chief's car, and two 2007 Kenworth 2000 gallon tankers. We also converted a tanker that was replaced by one of the new one's to a foam unit that carries Class B foam in bulk and an assortment of foam delivery devices.