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Fremont County Fire Protection District provides emergency services to 6,000 of Fremont County’s 10,000 square miles. The District was formed in 1993 and brought together twelve rural and small town fire departments into one organization. Fire Departments from the communities of Lysite, Lander Rural (providing response from 2 stations on the South and North West entrances of Lander), Missouri Valley, Kinnear, Crowheart, Pavillion, Midvale (with a second station in the Lost Wells Butte subdivision), Atlantic City, Hudson, North Portal, Fort Washakie, and Shoshoni all came together to form the District. At the time the District was organized Battalion 1 was established to respond from the Riverton area to provide services to the District’s patrons on lands immediately surrounding the Riverton Fire Protection District.
The "Heart" of the District lies with its Volunteers, who make up the District’s emergency service providers. The District maintains a roster of approximately 200 Fire Fighters. These dedicated Volunteers provide the District patrons with an invaluable service. The commitment and dedication of these remarkable public servants, makes life in rural Fremont County possible for many District’s patrons.
A Fire Fighter with the District Volunteers to join! That is when the real work begins. A new member with the District is required to obtain their Wyoming Fire Fighter I certification (which includes training in Hazardous Materials, Incident Command, Basic First Aid, and CPR), training in Wildland Firefighting, a Wyoming Class B drivers license. New Volunteers have to meet Battalion training, business meeting, and fire call attendance requirements within their first 18 months of joining.
Fremont County Fire Protection District Volunteers are committed to providing the best emergency response services available to the patrons and visitors of the District. There pride, dedication, and commitment is obvious through the time and energy that they invest into their training and attendance to calls for assistance.
The District is operated by an Administrative Board consisting of three Commissioners, who are elected by the patrons living within the District’s boundaries. They serve four-year terms. The Commissioners hire the District Fire Chief who oversees the daily operations of the District. The District employees a part-time Deputy Chief , a full time Deputy Chief/Trainer, a full time Firewise Coordinator to oversee the Wildland Urban Interface (Firewise) Grant, an Office Manager, Volunteer Coordinator, Shop Supervisor, 2 Mechanics and a part time Shop Assistant.
This website is dedicated to the Volunteers of the District who provide essential services to the residents and visitors of Fremont County; a tradition that is founded in pride, dedication, and commitment to providing emergency services to their friends, neighbors and communities.
During the 2009 calendar year Fremont County Fire Protection District’s 205 Volunteer Fire Fighters attended 3,499 meetings accumulating over 5,861 personnel hours for meeting attendance. They attended 2,144 training sessions accumulating over 8,731 hours of training. District Volunteers responded to 538 incidents during the year accumulating man hours of 5,084 hours. Meetings, trainings and response time hours for the year totaled 19,676 hours. The estimated dollar value of these services to the patrons of the District is nearly one million dollars just for Volunteer hours. This does not represent what it would cost the patron`s of the District to operate a full-time paid Fire Department, that cost would be significantly greater.
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Mission Statement
The Fremont County Fire District is dedicated to providing the highest quality of fire, emergency and other community related services to the residents and visitors of the District.
District Stats through June 2010:
| Battalion pages: |
286 |
| Combined incidents: |
184 |
| Structure Fires: |
11 |
| Wildland Fires: |
11 |
| Vehicle Fires and Wrecks: |
43 |
| Cancelled or false alarm: |
46 |
| Rescue/EMS |
45 |
| Other |
28 |
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