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5 unusual facts about Volunteer Fire Department


Carlstadt, New Jersey

The Carlstadt Fire Department (CFD) is an all-volunteer fire department.

Eliphalet Lockwood

Lockwood organized the first voluntary fire department in Norwalk.

Lyndhurst, New Jersey

The Lyndhurst Fire Department (LFD) is an all-volunteer fire department.

Wallington, New Jersey

The Wallington Fire Department (WFD) is an all-volunteer fire department.

Wood-Ridge, New Jersey

The Wood-Ridge Fire Department (WRFD) is an all-volunteer fire department.


Alvadore, Oregon

Today Alvadore is home to a general store and gas station that contains a post office (ZIP Code 97409), a large regional nursery—Decker Nursery—known for its Christmas trees, a volunteer fire department, the Alvadore Christian Church, a nut-drying plant affiliated with Blue Diamond Growers, and a variety of other agricultural businesses including an organic strawberry farm (Berg's Berries and Organic Produce).

Dora, Oregon

Dora shares a rural fire protection district with nearby Sitkum.

Miranda, California

Besides the post office, the town boasts one restaurant, a resort, market, and gas station (all owned by the Eldridge family), a Seventh-day Adventist church, a meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon), a small, rural high school encompassing grades 8-12, a Community Grange, two gift shops, and an active Volunteer Fire Department.


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Debert

The community has two churches (United Baptist Church and United Church of Canada), a community centre, two vehicle repair garages, two convenience stores, and a volunteer fire department.

John Alario

Alario has membership in the Knights of Columbus, Louisiana Epilepsy Association, Louisiana International Deep Water Gulf Transfer Terminal Authority and the Westwego Volunteer Fire Department.

Paweł Kowal

In 2008, he became an honorary member of the Volunteer Fire Department in Chocznia, Poland.

Pete Goicoechea

He is affiliated with the Eureka Volunteer Fire Department, E Clampus Vitus, the Humboldt River Authority, and the Nevada Rural Health Center.

Sidney, Kentucky

Although Sidney is unincorporated, it has a Family Dollar and its own volunteer fire department (Big Creek Fire Department).