Thank you Firefighters!

The SPVFD Auxiliary would like to publicly thank all the department personnel for the tremendous effort they put forth during the April 29, 2009 Spirit Mountain Ranch fire.
Due to the location and weather conditions, this fire had the potential to become a far reaching wildland fire which could have destroyed many homes, endangered many residents, and devastated a vast amount of beautiful country.

The actions of the firefighters allowed the fire to be maintained to one residence, keeping the fire from spreading to the extremely dry surrounding forest.

Many of us come to this area for the beauty and peacefulness of a less congested population. Often we forget the exchange for this is reduced services that we never gave much thought to when we had fire stations and ifre hydrants in our immediate neighborhoods.

Fighting a fire in our rural surroundings is a challenge. Our firefighters, all volunteers, overcame difficult property entrances, no hydrants, no street lights, no backup or relief personel, nolocal eatery, no nearby hospital-all the other services that are close by in an urban area.

Thank you especially to Spanish Peaks Volunteer fire Department, Bon Carbo Volunteer Fire Department, Stonewall Volunteer fire Department, Las Animas County Sheriff's Office, and Purgatory Valley Construction for the water!

Firefighters, thank you again for doing a stellar job!

From the Spanish Peaks Volunteer Fire Department Auxiliary