Support Our Local Fire/Rescue Departments

April 25, 2025 Editor, The News-Gazette: We recently experienced our greatest natural threat to living in a remote mountain area – fire. An Irish Creek home caught fire when no one was present and the closest neighbors didn’t see the flames until it was too late to save the home, but thanks to the rapid response from virtually all local volunteer fire departments, they were able to prevent the fire from expanding into a wildfire that could have consumed acres of forest land, destroyed many homes and threatened the lives of people who would have been trapped if their only exit from the mountain had caught fire.