Northern Wright County Volunteer Fire Department · Station at 8831 Hwy 95, Manes, Missouri
In the department’s own words: we are located in the NE part of Wright County in Manes, Missouri. Everyone on this department is a volunteer. Out here the crew that turns up is the people who live down the road from you.
One department covers this end of the county, and the almanac it keeps is short on purpose. Turn the ring to read what sits in each season. Only one entry here is a dated department event. The rest is plain fire safety guidance that holds anywhere.
Posted by the department
The one dated entry on this whole ring. The department posted it as a public event on its own Facebook page. A resident who brought children along said afterwards that sitting in the fire truck was the bonus nobody had counted on.
General fire safety guidance
Not a department program, and not a rule this department has published: this is the plain public guidance for anyone burning in summer. Check the wind before you light a brush pile, keep water and a shovel within reach, and stay with the burn until it is cold.
General fire safety guidance
Not a department program, and not a rule this department has published: general public guidance says a chimney or stove pipe gets cleaned and looked over before the heating season, and that anything that burns stays at least three feet clear of any heat source.
General fire safety guidance
Not a department program, and not a rule this department has published: the general public guidance is three feet of clear space on every side of a portable heater, a wall outlet rather than an extension cord, and a smoke alarm test whenever the clocks change.
These are the two names the department publishes on its own page. Everyone here serves as a volunteer.
Fire Chief
Assistant Fire Chief
Nothing else about the roster is published, so nothing else is listed here. No member count, no call figures and no equipment list appear on this page, because none of that is on the public record for this department.
A department like this one is exactly as large as the number of people willing to get out of bed. That is the whole story, and it is why this is the first thing the page asks for.
Volunteer fire departments generally take people who arrive with no experience at all and train them from there. What this one needs right now, and what it can teach you, is a question worth asking the crew directly rather than reading off a website.
Call the department line, send an email, or message the Facebook page. Any of the three reaches the same small group of people.
The department runs things for the people who live around it. One is on the public record, so one is what this page lists.
Saturday 4 April · posted as a public event
The department posted this one itself, under its own abbreviation. A resident who came along commented afterwards that the fire truck was the part the kids talked about: they got to sit in it, which was not what anybody had turned up for.
Anything else the department holds is announced on its Facebook page. This page does not print a calendar of events the department has not posted.
Non emergency questions, volunteering, and event details all go to the same places.
8831 Hwy 95
Manes, Missouri
Northeast Wright County
417-259-7840
Not for emergencies.
The department’s page
Where events and notices get posted.
In an emergency, call 911.
That number is written here as plain text on purpose. It is not a link, and nothing on this page will dial it for you.
There is no contact form on this page and nothing here collects or sends any information. Use the department’s own channels above.