Wetumpka Volunteer Fire Dept

09/02/2026

Drafting training with the new-to-us fire engine!!🚒

08/26/2026

🚒❤️ To our incredible community - thank you for your continued donations, encouragement, and support of the Wetumpka Volunteer Fire Department!

Because YOU give, WE can serve. Your generosity helps provide the equipment, resources, and training we need to keep fighting fires, responding to emergencies, and delivering life-saving services when our neighbors need us most.

Every donation, every kind word, and every show of support makes a difference. We are honored to serve such a generous and caring community.

From all of us at the Wetumpka Volunteer Fire Department - THANK YOU for standing behind your firefighters! 🚒🔥❤️

08/22/2026

Big exciting day for WVFD, we bought a new-to-us 🚒 to be housed permanently at our Station 2 on Cooks Landing Road!!

We found a great deal on this 1996 well maintained engine with less than 28,000 miles. It also came with some hoses, hand tools and several nozzles that sweetened the deal!!

She ran great, being pushed hard in this Florida heat, for the 4 1/2 hour drive back from between Ocala and Leesburg!!

This Engine has a nice 1000 gallon poly tank and a 1250 gpm Hale pump. The 6” front bumper intake is going to make it ideal for easily pumping out of the lake from a boat ramp!!

08/22/2026

Big exciting day for WVFD, we bought a
new-to-us 🚒 to be housed permanently at our Station 2 on Cooks Landing Road!!

We found a great deal on this 1996 well maintained engine with less than 28,000 miles. It also came with some hoses, hand tools and several nozzles that sweetened the deal!!

She ran great, being pushed hard in this Florida heat, for the 4 1/2 hour drive back from between Ocala and Leesburg!!

This Engine has a nice 1000 gallon poly tank and a 1250 gpm Hale pump. The 6” front bumper intake is going to make it ideal for easily pumping out of the lake from a boat ramp!!

08/18/2026

I-10, 177 mile marker eastbound traffic crash with injuries. Highway temporarily closed for Survival Flight!

08/11/2026

🌲🔥 HAPPY 82nd BIRTHDAY, SMOKEY BEAR! 🐻🎉

For 82 years, Smokey Bear has been one of America’s most recognizable symbols of wildfire prevention. Smokey’s story began in 1944, when he was introduced as the face of a national campaign to teach Americans that preventing wildfires is a responsibility we all share.

In 1950, Smokey’s story became even more meaningful when a real bear cub was rescued after being badly burned in the Capitan Gap Fire in New Mexico. The little cub became known as the living symbol of Smokey Bear and helped carry the wildfire-prevention message to generations of Americans.

Today, Smokey’s message is just as important as it was more than eight decades ago:

🔥 “Only YOU can prevent wildfires.” 🔥

The Wetumpka Volunteer Fire Department is proud to celebrate Smokey’s 82nd birthday and the generations of firefighters, forestry professionals, volunteers, and citizens who work together to protect our forests, wildlife, homes, and communities.

🐻 Happy Birthday, Smokey! Here’s to 82 years of protecting what matters.

🌲 PREVENT WILDFIRES. PROTECT WHAT MATTERS. 🌲

08/08/2026

Prayers go out to a family that lost their home off of Johnny Sweet Rd around 7:30 last night. Wetumpka and Midway Fire And Rescue Service assisted Quincy Fire Department with manpower and maintaining a supply of water with our Tanker and dump tank.

08/08/2026

That time of the year, watch out for busses and children! It is unlawful that pass a 🚍 with lights and stop arms out on a 4 lane highway unless there is a barrier or grass median. You are required to stop 🛑, going either way, for busses on Pat Thomas Parkway and Jefferson St in town.

Today's answer to the question "Do I Need To Stop?"

If traveling on a Divided Roadway and you approach a school bus that is stopped with their red lights flashing and displaying a stop sign...the answer is "YES!" If you are traveling in the same direction as the school bus you must stop.

If you are traveling in the opposite direction and the roadway is divided by a median (unpaved or a barrier) you are not required to stop, but you should proceed with caution.

07/28/2026

*** FYI ***
Please stay safe & hydrated during this heat wave!

07/23/2026

At about 5:30pm, the WVFD received a call to help the City of Quincy,Florida set up our dump tank and help shuttle water for a house fire. Midway Fire And Rescue Service, Robertsville and Mt. Pleasant, FL Volunteer Fire Department are also on scene helping. Please keep the homeowners in your prayers!