Tontitown Area Fire Department
N 36° 10.546 W 094° 13.907
15S E 389226 N 4004146
The Tontitown Area Fire Department was formed in 1979 under Arkansas Act 176 of 1963. It began as an all-volunteer fire department serving a response area of 40 square miles that includes the City of Tontitown.
Waymark Code: WMGDJT
Location: Arkansas, United States
Date Posted: 02/18/2013
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"The Tontitown Area Fire Department (TAFD) was formed in 1979 under Arkansas Act 176 of 1963. It began as an all-volunteer fire department serving a response area of 40 square miles that includes the City of Tontitown. Continued growth of the area has led the department to become a combination department with two full-time firemen and approximately 25 volunteers.
The primary source of funding for TAFD is derived from annual membership dues, paid either by cities who have an inter-local agreement with TAFD or by the citizens residing in the TAFD coverage area. Membership dues are supplemented with fundraisers undertaken by the fire fighters themselves, as well as quarterly county funding and insurance turnback funds from the State of Arkansas. TAFD is a non-profit entity and is not a branch of the City of Tontitown.
Our firefighters unselfishly devote their personal time and resources
to train, drill, maintain equipment, fight fires, assist with medical
emergencies, and raise money for the TAFD. Our well trained
force includes full time, part time and volunteer firefighters, EMTs,
and designated first responders. TAFD has mutual aid
agreements with all other area fire departments, including
the Springdale Fire Department.
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As a result of many years of hard work and planning, the Tontitown Area Fire Department has built a fleet of fire trucks and amassed the fire fighting equipment consisting of two engines, a tanker/pumper, a S.T.A.T. truck, a brush truck, a rescue/pumper, a tanker and a service/rescue truck with cascade. This fleet affords the capacity to haul a total of 8,950 gallons of water to fire incidents.
The main goal of the TAFD is to protect lives and property; when ISO ratings go lower, so do homeowners’ insurance premiums. The citizens served by the TAFD have realized significant savings in annual insurance costs in recent years. In 1979, ISO rated the TAFD service area at 10. TAFD’s ISO rating has improved through the continuing effort to improve training, equipment upgrades and judicial use of matching-grant funding. Today the in city rating is 5 and the rural area is 8b. This improvement has saved property owners thousands of dollars in insurance premiums. Most insurance companies require that citizens in the TAFD coverage area be members in order to obtain the lowest insurance rates. The department is currently completing an assessment survey for another ISO inspection to lower the current ratings.