Jerome Volunteer Fire Department Photo Gallery:

In February of 2008 we received delivery of a brand new Brush Truck, mounted on a Ford F-450 Chassis and built and equipped by Frontier Emergency Products in Phoenix. It's a 4 wheel drive, turbo diesel, 6.7 litre with a 100 gpm/50 cfm CAFS unit from Waterous and a 300 gallon tank.

The Jerome Volunteer Fire Department took delivery of the new brush truck on February 25, 2008.

Members of the Jerome Volunteer Fire Department are seen looking over their new brush truck.

In January of 2008 we responded to a car fire on the mountain above us. When the first crew arrived the car was fully involved, but with a little compressed air foam and a bunch of snow they knocked the fire down.

In August of 2006, we finally received our new Rescue rig. It's a 2006 Ford 550, 4 wheel drive, turbo diesel, 6 litre, 325 horsepower chassis. The rear box was custom built by Taylor Made Ambulance Company. It was designed by Jerome Fire Dept. officers and EMTs.

Here we see the interior cabinets which house the rope rescue and extrication equipment that was also acquired through the grant. Notice the roll-up doors.

We were invited to participate in some live fire training down in the Valley by the Cottonwood Fire Dept. Here we see Captain David Vogel and Firefighter Steve DeJong protecting exposures and making sure the fire doesn't spread to any outlying areas.

Here we see Captain DeJong standing on the hose. Someone told him the fire was out.

Here we see newly appointed Captain, David Vogel, modeling his shiny new red fire helmet.

We sent a crew to compete in the annual local muster down in the Verde Valley. From left to right we see Abe Stewart, Andy Peterson, Ky Flagg, Shawn Scarcella, Eamon Stewart, and Brandon Nargessi. Abe and Brandon are two of our most experienced firefighters. The rest are all new recruits.

Here we see the crew in a competition called the "truck pull". The teams race to pull a heavy fire truck from a dead stop to a finish line. The fastest time wins.

The "bucket brigade" dates back to a point in history when there were no fire engines and people lined up and passed buckets of water to the fire.

In the "barrel squirt" a steel barrel is hung from a steel cable stretched between to fixed poles. The barrel is on a ring that allows it to slide along the wire. Two teams try to push the barrel with large streams of water back over the heads of the opposing team. Although our team didn't win any prizes, the guys won a blue ribbon for spirit and enthusiasm. According to the folks who organized the event, the Jerome team took the spirit of comaraderie and brotherhood to a whole new level.

The Willow Fire over by Showlow, Arizona had been burning for about four or five days when this photo was taken. You can see the Jerome Fire Station #1 in the bottom right foreground. Since the fire was not threatening any towns, they decided to let it burn toward the north.

Here we see the members of the Rope Rescue team preparing to lower a patient during a drill. The patient is Chief Butcher who insisted on taking his teddy bears with him.

In the next picture we see three rescue personnel, attached to the stoke's basket (with patient), being raised to safety.

A single male was driving over Mingus Mountain from Prescott to Jerome. Coming around a particularly dangerous curve, lacking a guard rail, he was forced off the road by a vehicle coming from the other direction in his lane. He and his vehicle tumbled three hundred feet down an almost vertical slope. The car ended up on its side not yet at the bottom of the ravine which was another 100 feet down. Members of the department's rescue and emt squads stabilized the vehicle, extricated the patient by cutting the car apart, and then packaged him for transport. A DPS helicopter and its team then took the patient and executed a short haul to the awaiting ambulance and more JVFD EMT personnel on the highway above. The patient survived, but, unfortunately, had his left leg amputated below the knee.
The photos below were taken by JVFD member Ky Flagg on his cell phone and e-mailed to the station.