Como Volunteer Fire Department

08/26/2026

Please give if you are able.

Chelsea is creating this fundraiser for Eddie Hoggard, Chelsea’s uncle, and Amanda after… Chelsea Johnson needs your support for Help Eddie and Amanda Rebuild

08/20/2026

The number one source of Home Fires? Your Kitchen. Cooking fires are the leading cause of home fires and injuries in North Carolina. Not faulty wiring. Not old smoke alarms. Your stove!

Here's the scary part: Most cooking fires happen in seconds. And most are preventable.

✅ Never leave cooking unattended: Not even to check on something else. If you leave the kitchen, turn off the stove.
✅ Keep flammable items away: Towels, curtains, paper, packaging. All belong far from the stove.
✅ Turn pot handles inward: Keep them from being bumped or grabbed by children.
✅ If a grease fire starts, DON'T use water: Use a fire extinguisher or cover the pan with a metal lid to smother it.

For renters and apartment residents: Discuss fire safety with your landlord. Know the locations of extinguishers and familiarize yourself with escape routes. Your kitchen is the heart of your home, so keep it safe! 🔥

Share this with someone who loves to cook, or someone just learning. Remind them: Never leave a kitchen unattended!
For more cooking safety tips, visit our website, linked in the comments below.

08/20/2026

⚠️ Thunderstorms developing later today will be capable of producing heavy downpours, with rain rates of 2-4" per hour expected. This could cause scattered instances of flash flooding, particularly in urban and poor drainage areas.
Additional showers and storms are expected through Saturday. Rainfall totals of 1-2" are forecast area-wide, with locally heavier amounts possible where storms recur.
Stay safe and remember: Turn Around Don't Drown! 🚗🚫💧
For the latest updates, visit weather.gov/wakefield.

08/18/2026

It’s Volunteer Firefighters Recognition Day, and we’d like to recognize the incredible volunteers who answer the call whenever our community needs them.

Thank you for your service, your sacrifice, and your unwavering dedication. We couldn’t do it without you.

08/17/2026

08/16/2026

08/16/2026

❓ Did you know ❓

North Carolina has a bunch of free resources that are available to help you stay prepared, and in the loop on what is going on?

📌 ReadyNC.gov - This is your one stop shop for all things disaster preparedness. From disaster kits to information on power outages and links to a ton of other resources - ReadyNC is your place to go!

📌 DriveNC.gov - Ever wonder what the traffic and road conditions look like? Our friends at the NC DOT have this really handy tool that gives real time roadway conditions. Check it out!

📌 Know Your Zone - Do you live along the NC coast? Is it hurricane season and you are headed to a vacation at North Carolina's beautiful beaches? You should Know Your Zone! This is the system that local emergency managers use to order evacuations along our coastline, specifically for storm surge situations. Mosey on over to KnowYourZone.NC.Gov to search by address (it's also linked from that really useful ReadyNC.Gov)

📌 NC FIMAN - What in the world is a FIMAN you may ask! The NC Flood Innundation Mapping and Alert Network (or FIMAN for short) is a network of over 770 flood gauges statewide. You can see the gauges across the state, see their trends and run scenarios, see what buildings may be at risk, and even sign up for alerts for the gauges closest to your home! Visit FIMAN.nc.gov to check it out!

📌 NC FRIS - Again with the acronyms huh... This is the NC Flood Risk Information System (or FRIS for short). This handy tool allows you to search any location in the state and to see your flood risk and to obtain information on how to mitigate that risk. Check out FRIS.nc.gov

08/13/2026

🚨👮‍♀️ So.... real talk for a minute neighbors......

👍 North Carolina has a flood gauge monitoring program with over 770 gauges statewide. It's public. You can visit it and see them all. You can sign up for alerts too. Just go to https://fiman.nc.gov/ . Pretty cool right?

👍 These gauges help emergency managers and public safety leaders make life-saving decisions by providing a real-time look at what our river systems are doing. Also a cool tool to have available, right?

👎 What's not cool is that people damage these gauges and steal them. We really don't know why. But it costs money to replace them, takes time to do the work, and it puts the community at risk by removing our ability to access real-time data.

If you notice a flood gauge that is damaged or missing, please call and let us know. If you see someone that is not from the state or local government sawing away at a pole or damaging it, please call 911 to report it.

🩷 We are all more resilient when we have tools to monitor our river systems.