701Rescue
Station 1
The tool truck. A rescue unit is what carries the cutting and spreading gear to a wreck, plus the hand tools for anything that has to be opened, lifted or shored.
Protection through yearly memberships.
The Grovespring Area Voluntary Fire Protection Association is an association, not a tax funded fire district. Two stations, seven apparatus, and every seat on them filled by a volunteer.
Wright County, Missouri
All volunteer
ISO Class 7, as advertised
Station 1 on Hwy 5
Roster manifest
Unit numbers as the association lists them on its own apparatus pages.
Station 1
701Rescue
711Engine / Tanker
721Tanker
731Heavy Brush
Station 2
712Engine / Tanker
722Tanker
732Brush
The plate mark above is an original emblem drawn for this design concept. It is not the association's official badge.
The fleet
Seven stamped numbers, two stations. Pick a plate to read what that unit is and where it sits.
Station 1
Station 2
711Engine / Tanker
Station 1
An engine that brings its own water. It can put a working line on a fire the minute it arrives instead of waiting on a supply, which is the whole game outside a hydrant grid.
721Tanker
Station 1
Water haul. In country with no hydrants the tanker is the water main, one load at a time, shuttling from a fill site back to the engine.
731Heavy Brush
Station 1
Built for the field. High clearance and a pump made to work off the road, on grass, timber and ditch fires where a road truck would bury itself.
712Engine / Tanker
Station 2
Station 2's pumper with water on board. A second engine out of a second house is what shortens the drive on the far side of the coverage area.
722Tanker
Station 2
The second water haul. Two tankers is the difference between a bucket of water and a continuous supply, because one is always filling while the other dumps.
732Brush
Station 2
Off road attack out of Station 2. Smaller than the heavy brush unit and built to get in where the road stops and the fire keeps going.
Unit numbers and station assignments are taken from the association's own apparatus pages. The role notes describe what each class of apparatus does in rural fire service, not the specifications of these particular trucks.
There is no tax levy behind this.
The association's own line is "protection through yearly memberships". That is the funding model, stated plainly: households and landowners in the area buy a membership each year, and volunteers give the hours.
Buy or renew a membership
Memberships are handled by the association directly. Call the business line or message the Facebook page to ask about a membership for your address.
Call 417-462-3161Join as a volunteer
Every seat on these seven units is filled by a volunteer. If you live in the coverage area and want to train, the same number reaches the association.
Message on FacebookRecent posts on the association's Facebook page have also asked for help with things like data entry and a junior firefighter pump training session, so not every job on the roster needs turnout gear. Ask about current needs before you assume there is nothing you can do.
What the association publishes
The current site keeps a page for each of these. In this concept they become one readable index instead of a link list.
Extrication equipment
The cutting and spreading tools used to open a vehicle. Listed among the association's own equipment pages.
Thermal imaging cameras
Heat imaging used to find fire behind a wall and people in smoke. Listed among the association's own equipment pages.
Automatic defibrillators
AEDs carried for cardiac calls. Listed among the association's own equipment pages.
Personnel
The volunteer roster behind the seven units. The Missouri Division of Fire Safety lists this department as volunteer.
Training grounds
Where the crew drills. The association keeps a page for it on its current site.
District coverage area
The ground these two stations answer on. The association publishes its own coverage map page.
Two houses
Four units out of Station 1 and three out of Station 2, which is what lets one association cover ground this spread out.
Station 1
9537 Hwy 5Grovespring, Missouri 65662
- 701
- 711
- 721
- 731
Station 2
Street address not published on the association's current site. Call the business line for directions.- 712
- 722
- 732
Reaching the association
This concept carries no contact form on purpose. Every route below is a real, public channel the association already uses.
The association's verified page, and where it posts most often.
In an emergency
Call 911. That number is printed here as plain text on purpose: this page is a design concept, it is not monitored, and nothing on it should ever stand between you and a dispatcher.