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Pine Mountain Volunteer Fire Department

10 MC 8001, Yellville, Arkansas 72687

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Late Night Fire Destroys Log Home:
 
The call came at 23:30 on March 8th, 2009. A log home was on fire in the Pine Mountain Volunteer Fire Department district. The first firefighters arrived on scene at 23:45 with one of our fast attack brush trucks. As luck would have it, the battery on our main pumper truck shorted as soon as the key was turned on. Initial observations showed total involvement of the attached log garage with fire licking at the walls of the house. Firefighters were forced to move the truck from its initial attack position due to the intense heat that was beginning to melt plastic light lens on the truck. Little time was lost, however, and the hoses were charged and the fire attacked. The drop tank was erected, filled with water from our tanker and firefighting efforts continued for several minutes.    Approximately fifteen minutes later, mutual aid in the form of a tanker, pumper and several firefighters arrived from Lakeway Volunteer Fire Department. These firefighters immediately joined in the firefighting efforts. Shortly after, a tanker arrived from Summit Volunteer Fire Department. Because personnel from Summit and Lakeway were unfamiliar with water drafting sites on the lake, as soon as their tankers discharged water to the drop tank, two Pine Mountain Volunteer Fire Department firefighters were sent along with these tankers for guidance. An additional pumper from Peel Volunteer Fire Department eventually arrived and was placed in a standby mode. Firefighting efforts continued well into the early morning hours but despite these efforts, the house, garage and all contents were a total loss. At approximately 03:00, Lakeway and Summit firefighters were released. Peel remained in standby for an additional 30 minutes when it too was released. Pine Mountain Volunteer Fire Department personnel and equipment remained on scene until 07:30 and left when there was no chance of the fire reigniting. There were several lessons learned from this fire. First of all, many of the homes in our district are on roads and lanes too narrow for fire apparatus to safely pass each other. This one-way traffic may cause some delay in delivering water to the scene. Driveways are narrow, curved and tree lined making backing up tankers to offload water both difficult and time consuming. Although not existing in this fire, it has been noted that some of our members' homes may be all but impossible to reach with fire apparatus, thus necessitating the use of 1000 feet or more of hose from pumper to the point of attacking the fire.
  

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Brush Fire Blackens Yard:

On March 17th, 2009, at 1500 hours, Pine Mountain Volunteer Fire Department received a call from Marion County Sheriff's Office about an out of control grass fire at the residence of a member. Firefighters arrived within 10 minutes, some responding directly from their residences with garden tools and leaf blowers. Initial observations showed approximately one acre had been burned and the fire was still spreading. The brush truck arrived a few minutes later with two firefighters who immediately began putting water on the areas of most concern attempting to stop any further spread. Leaf blowers were being operated by two firefighters, constructing fire breaks around the perimeter of the flames to stop or at least retard further spread of the flames. A second apparatus, a rapid attack brush truck with 2 firefighters arrived shortly thereafter and began to put water on another area of concern closer to the residence. The combined efforts of the firefighters and residents quickly contained any further spread and the fire was essentially extinguished by 16:30. Cleanup efforts continued for about an hour more and all personnel cleared the scene at 17:30.
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Board News

 There was no official Board Meeting
July 21, 2010 as there was no Quorum of
Board Members present.

The President called a Special Meeting
of the Board of Directors August 18, 2010
to attend to pressing business.


Election Night Details


October 20, 2010 is election night to elect
Board Members for 2010 - 2011. If you wish
to run for election to the Board of Directors or
for the latest detail concerning the upcoming
election. Please follow the link above.

Newsletter

The Newsletter is available now online.

We are starting to put together the 2010 edition
of the Newsletter. If you would like to write an article
or have information that you would like published in
Newsletter please contact Bill Angus webmaster@pinemtnvfd.com The deadline for
submissions is November 1, 2010.

 

 

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We have received an archive of the activities of Pine Mountain Volunteer Fire Department almost from it's inception.
These records include Board Meeting minutes and annual Newsletters over the years.

Over the next several months we will be posting them in a living archive.

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Minutes of the
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Newsletter

The Pine Mountain Volunteer Fire Department Newsletter. The Newsletter is in the Adobe PDF file format.

 

 


The newsletter contains an article that was prepared from FEMA "Are You Ready". The complete publication is available here for download.

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