Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser

Due to an expected snow storm forecasted for our area, the Pancake Breakfast for March 8, 2008 at Dogwood Heights Church, has been cancelled. This fundraiser will be resheduled for a later time. Will post the next scheduled date as soon as it is made avaiable.

Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser

Saturday March 8, 2008, 8am to 11am at Dogwood Heights Baptist Church. Breakfast is $5 per person. We are also having baked goods for sale.

Business Meeting

Tuesday March 4, 2008 at 6:30 pm, at the fire station. This meeting is open to the public, everyone is welcome.

Annual Election

The annual election was held at the fire station on February 5, 2008.

The position for secretary was open. Della Turner was elected to take the position. This was the only change made. The board members, fundraising chair person and the building maintance person remain the same.

A board oversees the fire department. We have a president, vice president, treasurer, and 5 other board members.

President: Deb Tong

Vice President: Carl Sowder

Treasurer: Bill Payne

5 other board members: Bill Payne, MB Wilson, Dennis Rager,

Debbie Fultz, Austin Sandefur, Geneva Coon

We have a fund raising chair person: Brenda McMurray

We have a secretary who keeps the minutes, but is not a board member: Della Turner

We have a building maintance person: Oscar Casteel

The board takes care of business and the fire chief takes care of the fire fighters

Cedar Fork sub station

We are currently waiting for the deed to the property to be released to us. In the meantime, Cedar Fork residents are actively involved in raising funds for the sub station.

Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser

Our Pancake Breakfast fundraiser will be March 8, 2008 at Dogwood Heights Baptist Church. We will also be selling baked goods. More details will be posted later.

Chief's Report January 2008

We responded to a mutual aid call for Springdale VFD for a house fire.

We responded to 2 house fires. One of those fires, we asked for mutual aid from Springdale VFD, and Rescue Squad to refill our air tanks.

We responded to 1 vehicle accident.

We received most of our grant items from Jerry Moat. The rest will come later. We will spend the entire $5000 on equipment. Our equipment is on the table for all to see.

At the monthly Chief's Meeting, we were told they are in the process of getting another class started for Firefighter 1 & 2.

We were informed we now have 2 fire hydrants in our district. One in front of two gas stations, and one in front of Dogwood Heights Baptist Church.

Four fire fighters will be attending classes in Pigeon Forge on March 1 & 2. Reservations are made but we have not received word yet on what class we will get to take.

We received the countywide grant. Each department will receive 3 mobile radios and 4 hand held radios. We will need to replace 8 pagers by 2009 to meet the narrow band system. (9-1-1 will be switching to narrow band the first of 2009). Five of our newer pagers can be reprogrammed to narrow band.

Respectively submitted,
Austin Sandefur, Chief

NTVFD Annual Election

The election for board members is normally held the first business meeting of the year. The business meeting fell on New Year's Day this year, so the elections have been postphoned until the February business meeting.

February 5, 2008 at 6:30 pm.

The position for secretary is open

These meetings are open to the public. Everyone is welcome. The meetings are held at the fire station.

Magnet Fundraiser

We are still selling the Support Your Volunteer Fire Department magnet. They are $5 a magnet.

Chief's Report for December 2007

We responded to one tire fire on Christmas night.
We were called to set up an LZ on Cedar Fork.

We had a total of 70 runs for the 2007.

Truck #63 is going to need a battery replacement very soon.

On December 14, we met Rep. Coach Roach at the courthouse. He presented us with a check for $5,000 to buy much needed equipment. This was from a Community Enhancement Grant that we had put in for.

The fire Chief's Association of TN is sponsoring classes in Pigeon Forge on March 2-3 2008. I signed up four to attend the classes. Cost is $50 per class, per student.

We enjoyed a very nice Christmas dinner and going away party for Tony Smith. We do wish Tony well as he goes into the Marines.

Training will be every Thursday night at 6:30. All fire fighters need to attend.

Thanks to everyone for all your hard work in 2007. I look forward to working with each one of you in 2008.

Respectively submitted,
Austin Sandefur, Chief

December 20, 2007 Christmas Dinner

NTVFD family enjoying our time together.

CPR Training

On December 18 2007 at 7 PM the

Springdale Volunteer Fire Department hosted CPR training. Air Evac Lifeteam presented the training. Several volunteers from North Tazewell Volunteer Fire Department attended this training. This is very valuable information for anyone to have. Our thanks to Springdale VFD and Air Evac Lifeteam for this night of training.