County of department: Lamar County
location of department: US 278, Beaverton
Phone: (205) 698-8101
Small town, has small fire department. Actually larger than I would have guessed. One building for trucks, one even has to be parked outside. There is a shed for fire fighters equipment.
"In our part of small town America we have people that volunteer the same kind of services, The Beaverton volunteer fire department. I remember in the early 1970's a small group of men and women getting together to form the Beaverton fire and rescue. I remember some of the first fire calls that were made. The Beaverton Fire dept. was first organized in the early 1970's with only a few members and they were James Pickle, Cloves Cannon, Guy White and Frankie Guyton. The current fire dept. was formed in 1981 with Joe Brown as fire Chief. Members were Marion Brown, Charles and Joan Mosley, Bill and Eva Green, Frankie Guyton, Harrell And Sharon Cantrell, Sherman Hughs, Robert Hughs, Robert Taylor, Don Taylor, Ed McDonald, Willie B. Mosley, Kerry and Joyce White, Grice Webb. The present members are Charles Mosley, Heath Mosley, Joan Mosley, David Trentelman, Christy Trentelman, Myron Spence, Jenny Spence, Chris Spence, Raymond Spence, Jan Spence, Mike Cannon, Billy Pickle, Eddie Pickle, Freddie Pickle, Joe Mike Taylor, Bill Green, and Sherman Hughs.
"After a lot of hard work and plenty of paper work the Beaverton Fire dept is pretty well equipped for a small town. 16 sets of fall out gear, 8 SCBA,s and spare cylinders, 40 sections of hose, 7 nozzles, 1980 Grumman pumper, 1976 tanker truck with a 1500 gallon Tank and a 1976 Chev. Pumper and tanker with a 750 gallon tank. The Beaverton fire dept has responded to 227 fire calls from 1981 through 2003, 111 of these calls were structure fires. Not all homes can be saved from total destruction but for the ones that are, if only a few, makes it worth the effort. Not only do they keep our insurance cost down they make our Towns and Cities more attractive to industry and places of commerce and maybe even make us fell a little safer knowing that they are just a phone call away.
"Lets not forget the men and women that volunteer there time, day and night to serve use when we need there help. I haven't had to call for your help, but I would like to just say to the Beaverton fire dept. (Thanks for being just a phone call away)" ~ By : Edward Guyton