Lakewood Volunteer Fire Department

06/13/2026

Heavy Rescue 205 made it's parade debut today in Glasgow for their 75th anniversary and 106th town birthday today. Thank you to Glasgow Volunteer Fire Department for the invite!

06/13/2026

Lakewood Volunteer Fire Department has purchased brand new battery powered Amkus Rescue Tools to replace older hydraulic tools. These tools will be on New (to us) Heavy Rescue 205.

A huge thank you to Matheny Fire & Emergency, Bill Weese- Rescue Tool Specialist Va/WV, Steve Sullivan, and Austin Meredith Certified EVT.

Biggest thanks to the Lakewood Community for their donations to make this possible to better serve this community. These tools and New Heavy Rescue 205 will not only serve Lakewood Community but all the adjoining departments and Kanawha County.

05/11/2026

All jokes aside, Happy National Police week to our brothers and sisters in blue! We always appreciate our local law enforcement and all the work they do to help keep our communities safe!

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05/05/2026

Pictures from Monday Drill last night. Flowing water and letting some of our newer members try out the deck gun and ground monitor.

05/04/2026

Smoke Detectors and CO Alarms save lives!

Members of Lakewood visited one of our community members to install new smoke detectors and CO Alarms in their recently purchased house. This is one of the many services we offer residents in our area.

Did you know smoke detectors and CO alarms are silent guardians? 🦸‍♂️🏠 They're on duty 24/7, ready to alert you to danger. Working smoke detectors cut the risk of dying in a fire IN HALF! 🔥 And CO alarms? They protect against the silent killer, carbon monoxide. 💨

Check your detectors monthly, replace batteries yearly (or go for the 10-year sealed battery kind!), and replace the whole unit every 10 years. It's a small price for peace of mind and could save your life and the lives of your loved ones. ❤️

Do you live in the Lakewood Area and need detectors? Message us!

04/29/2026

Lakewood Volunteer Fire Department hosted a mutual aid training with West Side Vol. Fire Department, West Side Vol Fire Dept #2 Sta 21, and Jefferson Volunteer Fire Department members on Monday night. This training was on Search and Rescue, and Rapid Intervention Team or RIT for short.

Members broke up into teams and practiced searching a structure, locating a victim/firefighter, and removing them from the structure. Members also worked on communicating with each other from our home departments as well as mutual departments.

Thank you to our neighboring departments for attending as well as officers from each department helping with the training.

(Photo Credits: J. Wooten, Jefferson FD)

04/26/2026

Moving day!

Today, Department members have been spending time preparing our "new" rescue for service.

This apparatus will have the capabilities to better serve our community and neighboring communities, equipped to help with Air Support, Technical Rescue, Auto Extrication, and large scale incidents. This truck originally came from German Valley, IL where it served their community for many years.

Stay tuned for more information on our newest addition to the Lakewood Family!

04/25/2026

Members from Lakewood Volunteer Fire Department attended a mutual aid training hosted by Jefferson Volunteer Fire Department alongside West Side Vol. Fire Department this morning at Riverside Valley Nursing home in Jefferson.

Thank you Jefferson Fire Department for inviting our crew to come out and train with you!

04/16/2026

Lakewood Volunteer Fire Department donated a large amount of gear and some extrication equipment to our partners at WILD Institute, Inc. In Fayette County. It was an honor helping them and we hope it can provide more in depth training opportunities for all that participate.

🚒🔥We want to thank Lakewood Volunteer Fire Department for their generous donation of gear and extrication equipment! Thank you Chief Mike Childers, Firefighter Shawn Childers, Firefighter Jacob Brookes, Firefighter Austin Meredith, Firefighter Olivia Meredith, and your entire department. 🔥🚒

We are so grateful to be part of such an amazing community! We thrive with the support of our partners and their encouragement enables us to accomplish our mission of providing quality trainings.

We are looking forward to using these old school auto extrication tools in some of our trainings to show the history of development in these tools. Comparing the weight and heft of these to the brand-new battery tools is really remarkable. And our thinking is if you can operate these kinds of tools, you can operate anything you are likely to encounter. And let's be honest, we still see some of these tools on our trucks.

We are all in this together! Thank you for the support!

04/07/2026

A message from our partners at NVFC

🚗📵 April is — a reminder that one moment of distraction when driving can change everything. Stay focused. Stay present. Lives depend on it.