Grant County Fire District 6

03/16/2024

Thank you to all of you who purchased tickets for the the John Deere gun safe raffle. The drawing was held Friday at the RDO customer appreciation day at the Coulee City Gun Club.

The lucky winner was Shelly Harper from Connell, WA.
Congratulations Shelly and thank you for your support.

A huge thank you to RDO equipment and their employees who helped make this happen.

02/22/2024

RDO Equipment Company has donated a 25 gun John Deere Liberty deluxe gun safe to our fire department. The retail value of this safe is $2,400 and includes a jewelry drawer and dehumidifier.

The drawing will be held March 15th at the customer appreciation day at the Coulee City gun club. You do note have to be present to win.
Tickets can be purchased at RDO Coulee City or Grant 6 personnel.

$10 per ticket with a maximum of 1,000 tickets being sold.

01/31/2024

Yesterday, we were able the finish a journey that started back in November.

We had been looking to upgrade our ambulance.
Our Fire district EMS call volume has tripled in the last 3 years. It was decided we needed to upgrade our ambulance but new just isn’t in our budget.
We found an ambulance in Northlake, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.

So a short plane ride and a quick 1,900 mile drive, a trip to Signs Etcetera, radio swap, and finally swapping all the gear and supplies.

The upgraded Ambulance 627 is in service.

A big thank you to Coulee City Fire Department for the use of A194 while we completed this change.

01/29/2024

There was a misprint on the date of the fund raiser for Brandon on our original flyer. Have updated it to show the correct date. Join us this Sunday if you are able.

08/01/2021

PUD is currently working to restore power to the residents north of Hartline. This is a day sooner than initial estimates. Anytime power is down these guys are rock stars.

07/31/2021

As most Hartline residents are aware there was a large straw stack fire just north of town yesterday.

This has resulted in loss of Fiber clear to Grand Coulee as well as power to residents north of Hartline.

Fiber was restored temporarily but not power. It is currently too hot to replace the burnt power pole.

There have been questions raised about why we are not putting the fire out. Initially this was 2,500 tons of straw. Thanks to Chief Pinar from Almira and some quick math here is the reason.

“It had 12.5 billion btu’s It would have taken 10 million gallons to extinguish that fire! That would have been 10,000 trucks holding a 1000 gallons each! That’s why hay stacks are left to burn out!”

We can understand the frustration people have, it’s very hot, freezers and refrigerators need to be kept cool.

If you are unaffected by this outage please reach out to your friends and neighbors to see if they are in need of stock water, generators or just a place to get out of the heat for a break. Our community never fails to come to the aid of those in need. We are confident they will step up this time as well.

Our department currently has personnel monitoring this fire 24 hrs a day.

07/21/2021

Please be careful while working on and around your equipment.

It’s harvest time. Lots of hours being put in, it’s easy to get too tired or complacent.

Stay safe out there.

LIND - The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office says it assisted emergency responders in a farming accident south of Lind late Tuesday.

07/20/2021

Please be careful out there.

🔥Another red flag warning🚨 Today and Wednesday for chance of ⛈⚡️and low humidity. While some rain is possible it will only be light. Strong winds will fan new fire starts.

07/20/2021

Airlift Northwest taking off with a patient. GCFD6 assisted Coulee City Fire Department on a patient medical emergency.

Both Airlift Northwest and Lifeflight provide our rural area with advance life support and quick transport.

07/02/2021

DNR has moved Grant County into EXTREME FIRE DANGER. Please keep this in mind when you celebrate the 4th.