Flora Volunteer Fire Department

05/06/2026

Great kids from FHS stopped by today.

04/29/2026

Congratulations to the 3 recipients of the Flora Fire Department Scholarships given in memory of Tyler Schroeder and Tony Doty. Congrats to Trevin Hemrich, Tyler Deain & Draven Taylor. We wish you all the best in your future!

04/01/2026

12/28/2025

Flora Fire Department Christmas Party 2025

Thankful for this group of men to serve Flora with.

10/29/2025

See you on Thursday night!! 🎃 🚒 🍬

10/28/2025

Clay County Emergency Telephone System Board would like to announce that we are able to take text to 911. Wireless customers can now send a text (up to 140 characters) to 911 in an emergency. Text to 911 should only be used in an emergency, when placing a call is not possible. For instance, if the caller is deaf, hard of hearing, impaired speech, or when speaking out loud would put the caller in danger.

If there is an emergency and you are unable to make a call, remember these steps:

*Don’t text and drive
*In the first text message send the location and type of emergency.
Text in simple words. Send a short text message in English without abbreviations or slang.
*Be prepared to answer questions and follow instructions from the 911 call taker.
*Don’t abuse 911 – Text to 911 service is ONLY for emergencies.
*It is a crime to text or call 911 with false reports. Prank-texters can be located.

The Text to 911 service may have many challenges.

*A text or data plan is required to place a text to 911
As with all text messages, messages to 911 may take longer to receive, may get out of order, or may not be received at all.
If you do not receive a text response from 911, try to contact 911 by calling.
Photos and videos cannot be sent to 911 at this time.
Text to 911 cannot include more than one person. Send your emergency text to 911 only. Group texts will fail.

Voice calls to 911 are still the best and fastest way to contact 911.

Remember, text to 911 service is not available everywhere yet in the State of Illinois and the U.S.

Jennifer Brown
911 Director/Systems Manager

09/09/2025

Chiefs Spitzner, Fender, King and Thackrey from all districts within the county have announced that it is advised to not do any open burning of any kind. Elevated fire conditions are present with the extremely dry conditions. Fire can spread quickly and easily with the vegetation being so dry. This burn ban will be in effect until a significant amount of rainfall occurs.

06/11/2025

Contact any Flora fireman if you would like to purchase a raffle ticket.

$20 per ticket or 6 tickets for $100
Gift certificates to Mel’s Sporting Goods
1st Prize - $1500
2nd Prize - $1000
3rd Prize - $500

06/11/2025

The Flora Fire Department’s Annual Golf Scramble in memory of Tyler Schroeder & Tony Doty.

We are honored to be able to offer scholarships in honor of 2 great firemen.

If you would like to be a sponsor please send a private message, comment below, or talk to any fireman. 👨‍🚒

05/23/2025

Congratulations to 2 outstanding young men for receiving the scholarships given by the Flora Volunteer Fire Department.

Zaiden Lewis received the Tyler Schroeder Memorial Scholarship & Gavin Williams received the Tony Doty Memorial Scholarship.
We wish both young men a happy and successful future.

03/14/2025

We kindly ask you to refrain from burning anything on Friday.

The Storm Prediction Center has highlighted the entire state of Illinois for the potential fire danger on Friday. The last time they highlighted our area, we had the large blaze near Ogden get out of Control this past fall. Thankfully, we are not in harvest season, but there is still a lot of dormant grass, and crop stubble in many of our viral fields. Fires will spread very quickly. Do not burn!