| Update on Training for Tuesday's Meeting |
| Sat. Aug 14th 2010 |
Our training on Tuesday will be on Introduction to Wildland Fire Behavior. John will have a presentation on this which is coming from S-190. Please be there by 6:30 for this important training. If time permits we will also go over the hand held radios and touch on how to use our web...
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| Training before meeting Aug 17th |
| Tue. Jul 27th 2010 |
We try to spend 20-30 minutes before each monthly meeting doing a little in house training. Mark, John, Michael and others continue to do a great job with this important task. We took 2 months off due to officer elections, but will will start back on our training August 17th at station 1 at 6:30 p.m...
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| Taylor County Budget Hearing |
| Tue. Jul 20th 2010 |
The Firefighters Budget for 2010-2011 in Taylor county will be THIS Thursday at 2:40pm.
Please plan to be there no later than 2:20. More times than not, the commissioners get ahead of their schedule and they have a break scheduled for the slot just prior to ours. We have been ...
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| Time to clean! |
| Tue. Jul 6th 2010 |
Michael and Jimmy spent a few hours cleaning ECCA's office area. Things look much better and things are much more organized. Thanks guys!...
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| Nominations for ECCA officer Positions Tuesday |
| Tue. Jun 8th 2010 |
The next ECCA meeting will be a VERY important event. This is the meeting that nominations are cast for ECCA's officer positions. PLEASE make an effort to attend. Be thinking about people that you would like to nominate for consideration, and if possible please visit with that person and see if they...
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| ECCA members learn CPR |
| Sat. May 15th 2010 |
May 13th, some of ECCA's Firefighters and First Responders took a CPR class taught by Air Evac Flight Paramedic Bonnie Clark. There were 10 students and even though almost all of them have had CPR classes in the past, we quickly learned that many things have changed since most of us took it last. Th...
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| Hay! (Fire) |
| Mon. Mar 29th 2010 |
ECCA got help from Buffalo Gap, Mulberry Canyon, View, and Jim Ned today with a grass/brush fire that included about 30 round bales of hay. The fire consumed around 30 acres and a few fence post as well. A tractor was used to help move the burning hay and scatter it so it could burn completely. Caus...
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| Mutual Aid Tye Fire 3-23-2010 |
| Tue. Mar 23rd 2010 |
ECCA was called along with several other departments to assist with a grass/brush fire close to Tye. It burned a few hundred acres and several fire trucks got stuck in the mud, but no injuries were reported....
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| "Control Burn" get out of control |
| Sun. Feb 28th 2010 |
A landowner in Wingate/Shep area set a "control burn" Saturday that got out of control hours later despite many warning of the danger. The result was a couple of hundred acres burned and many hours of firefighting for 2 days from 6 different departments. It also cost a couple of tires, fue...
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| spontanious training |
| Sat. Feb 27th 2010 |
Assistant Chief Jimmy Hall and Firefighters Michael Brock, and John Crowdy started Saturday morning off by working on a few things at station1. This developed into washing the trucks, testing hose, flushing pumps, and practicing with equipment. Delbert Hall was on hand to teach these "young guy...
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