05/13/2025
The future of your community help and safety starts here.🚥⏱️
This is our Chief Matthew Dudley and his four year old son and our our Assistant Chief Blake Cloer. Although this may look like a picture of them entertaining a child, they are actually molding your future firefighter or EMT. On most any given day, if you ask this young man what he wants to be when he grows up, he will tell you "I'm gonna be a firefighter." Now, only God knows what the future holds, but if his Dad and our other firefighters never encouraged him, he likely would have no interest in the fire service at all.
Our firefighters are getting older, worn out and down some days, and then we have those that have passed away just in the last 10 years. If we don't encourage our young people to do for others out of the goodness of their hearts, in 15 more years, your house may just burn down or you might have to wait an hour for help when your loved one is facing possible death because there's no one around to volunteer to help anymore. We need more hands and hearts in the volunteer world. We need those willing to learn. We need those that want to help.
Maybe you're not close to Florette, I guarantee there are other volunteer departments near you who need help too. On most any given call in Morgan County depending on your coverage area, if you called 911 once a week, you're likely to see the same 5 or 6 responders show up to your aid. Why, you ask. It's because that's the going average of dedicated volunteers now days. Yes, it's time consuming. Yes, some days the load is heavy. Yes, the pay is terrible on paper. But the reward of helping others in need is greater than that to the 5 of 6 responders near you. We need your help. You don't have to know how to do all the things. We need you to be willing to learn and want to help and serve others, our communities are counting on you and those to come like young Mr. Dudley.