Burn Permits

The Spanish Peaks Volunteer Fire Department is not currently issuing burn permits. Further, Las Animas County is under a stage one burn ban.

Posted by: Keisha

Training

In February and March, the Spanish Peaks/Bon Carbo Fire Protection District hosted a multi-day training session for Fire Departments in Las Animas and Huerfano Counties. S-215, Fire Operations in the Wildland/Urban Interface was a valuable class that taught our Wildland Firefighters skills that will help them better evaluate and fight Wildland fires that threaten subdivisions, towns, and cities.

Taught by CK Morey and instructors from FireWorks911, the class was well attended over all four days, including one grueling ten hour day. Spanish Peaks Volunteer Fire Department, Bon Carbo Volunteer Fire Department, Fisher’s Peak Volunteer Fire Department, Stonewall Volunteer Fire Department, Wet Mountain Volunteer Department, and Hoehne Fire Department were all represented at the training, ensuring that these communities will benefit from better trained firefighters. This class was paid for in part by a Volunteer Fire Assistance Grant.

Students and instructors were fed during training by the Bon Carbo VFD Auxiliary and the Spanish Peaks VFD Auxiliary. Menus included Breakfast Burritos, Sandwiches, Pasta, and Sloppy Joes. No one went away hungry!

Burn Permits

The Spanish Peaks Fire Department is currently issuing burn permits for one day intervals, dependent upon the weather. To activate your burn permit, please call the Spanish Peaks Fire Department at 941-4107. This phone is always answered.

You must have a signed burn permit on file to begin a controlled burn. If you do not have one, please call the station to make arrangements to come into the station to fill one out.

Truck Washing Party

Truck washing is a necessary part of any Firefighter's job. But in a Volunteer Fire Department, it can be hard to find the time to complete this task.

Towards the end of February, members of the Spanish Peaks Fire Department, and some student volunteers from Aguilar High School, took advantage of the unseasonably warm weather to wash all of the trucks in the Aguilar Station.

Brush 10, muddy from a smoke chase earlier in the year.

Brush 10, after a good session with the power washer.

Brush 10, clean and shiny.

Aguilar High School student volunteers Aimee Hart and Joe Martinez, supervised by Firefighter Justin Barajas.

After working for a few hours, Assistant Chief Larry Broach, Firefighter Justin Barajas, Dispatcher Keisha Broach, and Aguilar High School student volunteers Aimee Hart and Joe Martinez were treated to pizza for lunch, provided by the Spanish Peaks Volunteer Fire Department Auxiliary. It's so nice having Adamo's Pizza just down the street! Then we all got back to work!

Taking advantage of the empty bay, Assistant Chief Broach, Firefighters Barajas and David Valdez, and Dispatcher Broach swept and cleaned the bay.

All in all, it was a very productive two days. We got a lot done, and the trucks are all nice and clean-at least until the next incident!

Submitted by: Keisha

Burn Permits

Spanish Peaks Volunteer Fire Department is not currently issuing burn permits due to extremely dry conditions and high winds. This includes any outdoor burning with the exception of charcoal or propane gas manufactured grills. This also includes burn barrels, pit burning, yard burning, etc, within the town limits of Aguilar. We will update here when we begin issuing burn permits again.

Maytag Refrigerators Recalled Due to Fire Hazard

http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09145.html

The Spanish Peaks Volunteer Fire Department is issuing an alert regarding the recall of some models of Maytag refrigerators. Affected models include Maytag®, Jenn-Air®, Amana®, Admiral®, Magic Chef®, Performa by Maytag® and Crosley® brand refrigerators. Please see the link above for more information.

Posted By: Keisha

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