Greetings from District 11! As I sit here writing this article, the Missouri State Fair is winding down, and we at the State Fair Fire Department are already making preparations for next year. After all these years, 17...
Archive - September 2022
FFAMDistrict 3 – September 2022
As time passes, we find ourselves thinking about what could have been, or what we should have done. I hate procrastinating, but I find myself doing it all too often. I have said for years I was going to hunt as much as...
Trench Rescue Training
A Race Against Time It was July 1975 when a cave-in at a construction site in Southeast Savannah claimed the life of 25-year-old David M. Thompson, according to The Savannah Reporter archives. He was working in an 11...
From the pen of the Chief
Make the Next 60 Years Even Better The Missouri State Fair Volunteer Fire Department celebrated 60 years of service to the Missouri State Fair and did the fire department ever shine! It was an honor to be the Fire Chief...
Poster Winners – MO SFVFD
Lydia Richardson is a 5th-grade student at Our Lady of Lourdes in Washington, MO. Marissa Gildehaus, a 4th-grade student at Immaculate Conception in Union, MO. Zachary Artinger is a 3rd-grade student at St. Gertrude in...
Gram Retires After 40 Years
Candy Gram began employment with the city of Riverside on August 8, 1982 as a Communications Specialist, dispatching calls for our first responders. She became the Supervisor of the Records and Communications Unit in...
2022 Awards Presented – MO SFVFD
This year we had 54 departments represented and 81 personnel signed in to staff our Department for the 2022 Missouri State Fair. The Departments include Holts Summit FD, Cole County FPD/EMS, Galt FPD, Southern Stone...
