| Dept. Recieves over $100,000 of free gear |
| Sun. Mar 8th 2009 |
The Coal City Community VFD last week received over $100,000 worth of free turnout gear from the Indianapolis Fire Department. The gear which is wore by firefighters to protect them from flames and heat while fighting fires comes at a time when the department was in dire need of more gear for our ma...
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| CCCVFD Recieves Online Training Grant |
| Wed. Jan 14th 2009 |
COAL CITY COMM. VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT RECEIVES ONLINE TRAINING GRANT
FROM TARGETSAFETY AND THE VCOS
<<January 14,2009>> – The Coal City Community Volunteer Fire Department today announced that it was awarded an online training grant. The grant—s...
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| Several Members getting ready for more classes |
| Sun. Jan 11th 2009 |
Several CCCVFD members will begin more classes starting this week. Several of our new members will be taking the Firefighter I & II class over the next several months. We wish these men and women the very best as they continue to upgrade thier training to better serve our community....
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| Free Community Christmas Dinner a huge success |
| Sun. Dec 21st 2008 |
The 1st Annual Coal City Community Christmas Dinner was a huge success Saturday evening. The event was totally free for the community and over 100 folks enjoyed a free warm meal. At 6:00 Santa arrived in Coal City Unit 11 to the delight of the young ones who received several great gifts. We would li...
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| CCCVFD Welcomes several new members |
| Mon. Dec 15th 2008 |
Within the past few months the Coal City Community Volunteer Fire Department has welcomed several new and highly dedicated members to help serve our community. Several of these members have already taken medical training classes along with the mandatory firefighting class required by the State of In...
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| CCCVFD Recievs grant from Wal-Mart |
| Sun. Nov 9th 2008 |
The local Spencer Walmart Manager Tim Driscoll presented a check for $1000.00 to the Coal City Volunteer Fire Department as a part of the Walmart “give back to their community program”. Chief Phillip Albright and Assist Chief Brian Moyer are most grateful for the grant and sa...
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| Coal City Firefighters keeping busy with classes |
| Fri. Oct 17th 2008 |
Several new members of the Coal City Community VFD are keeping busy in the classroom these days. We currently have members wrapping up a Emergency Medical Responder course that has last two months and some of the same members taking that class have also started their Mandatory Firefighting class tha...
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| Annual Fish Fry a great success! |
| Sun. Aug 17th 2008 |
The annual CCVFD Fish Fry was another great success this year. All of us here with the CCVFD would like to thank the many folks that supported the fish fry and the many volunteers that helped during the event. Several donations were also accepted and very much appreciated. Thanks again!...
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| CCVFD puts new AED in service |
| Wed. Aug 13th 2008 |
The CCVFD received their new Philips HeartStart AED on Wednesday. The life saving piece of equipment is used when a individuals heart stops and can literally save a life. The cost of the AED was around $1,700 and purchased through funds from the EMS grant made possible through a $10,000 grant from B...
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| CCVFD Unit 14 Involved in minor accident |
| Sun. Jun 15th 2008 |
At around 2:30am CCVFD was dispatched to a Bobcat loader fire on Eggenoff Road. While responding to the call Unit 14 struck a deer on SR 157 about 3 miles south of Coal City. No firefighters were injured but the deer was killed instantly. Unit 14 recieved minor damage to the front bumper and front d...
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