Celeste Volunteer Fire Department

06/01/2026

🚨🤍❤️ RED, WHITE & RESCUE BASH ❤️🤍🚨

We’re planning something BIG for September 5th in Downtown Celeste, and we need your help!

The Watering Hole is hosting the Red, White & Rescue Bash to benefit the amazing volunteers of the Celeste Volunteer Fire Department, and we’re looking for sponsors, donors, and community partners to help us make this event one our community will never forget.

We’re currently looking for:

🚒 Event Sponsors
🎶 Live Music
🏰 Bounce Houses & Inflatables
💦 Dunk Tanks
🐐 Petting Zoos
🚗 Help organizing a Car Show
🎁 Silent Auction & Raffle Donations
🍔 Food Trucks (applications coming soon)
🛍️ Vendors (applications coming soon)
❤️ Anyone willing to help support a great cause

Our goal is to create an incredible family-friendly event while raising money for safe, updated equipment and resources for the volunteers who serve our community day and night.

And here’s where y’all come in…

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PLEASE tag local businesses, business owners, sponsors, entertainers, car clubs, organizations, or anyone you think may be interested in getting involved! We know our little corner of Texas is full of generous people, and one tag could connect us with exactly the right person.

Whether it’s sponsoring the event, donating a service, providing an attraction, helping with the car show, or simply sharing this post, every bit helps.

Let’s show these volunteers how much their community appreciates them and build something truly special together. 🇺🇸🚒❤️

Interested in sponsoring, donating, volunteering, or partnering with us? Send The Watering Hole a message!

And seriously… start tagging people below! 👇🤎 We need all the connections we can get to make this the biggest and best Red, White & Rescue Bash yet! 🇺🇸🔥🚒

05/25/2026

Memorial Day is more than just a holiday weekend — it is a day to reflect on the sacrifices made by our nation’s fallen heroes and to remember those who gave their lives protecting the freedoms we enjoy every day.

The Celeste Volunteer Fire Department would like to thank all military members, veterans and especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. We hope everyone has a safe and meaningful Memorial Day.

04/28/2026

**TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT**

PLEASE STAY WEATHER AWARE TODAY!

TORNADO WATCH 171 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS

TEXAS COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE

ARCHER CALLAHAN CLAY
COLLIN COOKE DALLAS
DELTA DENTON EASTLAND
ELLIS ERATH FANNIN
GRAYSON HOOD HOPKINS
HUNT JACK JOHNSON
KAUFMAN LAMAR MONTAGUE
PALO PINTO PARKER RAINS
ROCKWALL SHACKELFORD SOMERVELL
STEPHENS TARRANT THROCKMORTON
VAN ZANDT WISE YOUNG

04/28/2026

04/24/2026

***Major Motor Vehicle Accident***
Hwy 69 is shutdown at County Road 1035 while crews operate on a major motor vehicle accident.
*Please Avoid the Area*

HCEMS and Celeste Fire are en route to a MVA with Rollover and unknown injuries at the 3500 block of Hwy 69 north.

AMR 536 (Supervisor) is also en route to the scene

Air Evac placed on standby

*there are multiple patients and a second ambulance is being requested at this time

*there will be 5 patients, 2 critical. A second helicopter being requested as well as a third ambulance.

*Greenville Fire being requested at this time | 14:36

*Wolfe City Fire being requested at this time | 14:40

*now a 4th ambulance and THIRD helicopter being requested to the scene | 14:44

*One person is still pinned. One person being transported via ambulance to the Hospital at this time | 15:00

*an HCEMS unit is transporting a patient to McKinney with part of the PHI Evac crew on board at this time | 15:45

*PHI helicopter will pick up crew at the Hospital

04/24/2026

**TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT**

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED TORNADO WATCH 141 IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS

IN TEXAS THIS WATCH INCLUDES 10 COUNTIES

IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

COLLIN COOKE DELTA FANNIN GRAYSON HOPKINS HUNT LAMAR RAINS ROCKWALL

THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ALLEN, BONHAM, COMMERCE, COOPER, DENISON, EAST TAWAKONI, EMORY, FRISCO, GAINESVILLE, GREENVILLE, HEATH, MCKINNEY, PARIS, PLANO, POINT, ROCKWALL, SHERMAN, AND SULPHUR SPRINGS.

04/16/2026

Big dreams are happening this year at The Watering Hole, but this next event means more to us than words can explain.

As many of you know, my husband Josh — or “Joshlynn” as some of y’all lovingly call him — recently joined the Celeste Volunteer Fire Department. Since then, we’ve gotten a closer look at what these men and women do for our town… the calls they answer, the sacrifices they make, the time they give, and the risks they take to protect complete strangers.

And the truth is… they need help.

They need newer, safer equipment for the people willing to run toward danger when the rest of us run away. They show up for our community on some of people’s hardest days, and they do it without asking for praise.

So now, we want to show up for them.

This September, The Watering Hole is putting together a family-friendly community fundraising event in Celeste to help raise money for the Celeste Volunteer Fire Department and the equipment they urgently need.

We’re dreaming big — vendors, food trucks, small rides, live music, silent auction, family fun, and hopefully so much more. We want this to be one of those events that reminds people what small towns do best… show up for each other.

But we can’t do it alone.

We are currently looking for AMAZING sponsors and businesses who want to be part of something meaningful. Depending on sponsorship level, businesses can receive:
• social media advertising
• banners and signage at the event
• business name on shirts
• logo/name on flyers
• and more

We can also provide a 501(c) form for tax purposes.

We’re also seeking businesses or individuals willing to donate services such as:
• photography FILLED ✅✅✅
• bounce houses or small rides
• dunk tank
• petting zoo
• live music
• or any service that could help make this event special

If you own a business, know someone who does, or simply want to help — please reach out.

Please like, share, and tag businesses who may want to sponsor or donate.

Let’s help protect the people who protect us. Let’s love on the ones who show up when everything is on fire — sometimes literally.

Celeste, let’s do what we do best. Let’s come together. ❤️🚒

04/16/2026

We would love to see the whole community come out and support such a great cause. We can't wait, it's going to be a blast.

03/24/2026

03/10/2026