Wildfire danger continues to increase across the state. Some places got some thunder today but did not necessarily get significant rain.

If you can do a rain dance, please start dancing.

We had a great training night when Entergy Arkansas spent some quality time with us for Arc & Spark training. They covered high-voltage electrical exposures for this evenings Hazardous Materials training. Each month we get all of our stations together for multi-company training to hone our skills on valuable topics just like this.

We all know that storms bring down trees and powerlines. Cars and trucks do that stuff, also! So when the powerlines hit the ground, cross roadways, or get too close to home (houses) on structure fires and , we want to know this stuff. Getting exposure to a safe training environment, understanding the equipment and tools, viewing procedures, and seeing safe practices will help keep us protected around high-voltage powerlines when it is time for us to go to work.

Thanks to Entergy Arkansas for making time to spend with first responders like us to get this valuable chance to learn more!

We need to share this again as address signs are often hit and miss in our fire district. When emergencies happen, and they are UNPLANNED as usual, we have to find you in a hurry. Whether it is DAY, NIGHT, RAINING, SNOWING, SLEETING, TORNADOING, OR EARTHQUAKING, we try to get there as fast as you would want us, FAST.

Now, even if you have a great address marker or one of these fantastic RED signs, we do depend on your neighbors to do their part to mark their addresses, too. We follow the path of good address markings to find you in a hurry at your given location. And considering 80% of our calls are medical, trauma, or non-fire related we don’t follow a trail of smoke or glow in the sky to your location. And for those of you that think GPS is the solution, we use that but it isn’t perfect. Visual markers still get us down the right driveway to your emergency.

– If you do have great address markers at your location – THANK YOU!

– If you need better address markers at your home or business – Give Marcella a call at 501-912-4211 to get a good deal on your custom address sign if you live in our fire district.

– If your neighbor needs a better address sign, tell them about it or plan an early Christmas gift to help them help you and all of us firefighters get down the road quickly in an emergency.

Thanks a bunch!