The Andersonville Volunteer Fire Department set a new record for emergency
responses in 2009 at 809. Specifically in the month of December the AVFD
responded to 38 calls for assistance with 24 being Emergency Medical First
Responder calls, 8 Motor Vehicle Accidents, 2 structure fires, 2 service
calls, and 2 false alarms. During 2009, the AVFD responded to 470

The first junior business meeting of 2010 will be held on Thursday January
7th @ 1900hrs. at Stn 1. If you want to be a junior firefighter with the
Andersonville Volunteer Fire Department, I strongly encourage you to be at
this meeting. There is going to be a lot of changes for this upcoming
year. (Mostly good and positive changes). Please pass the word to other

Ray Viles Ford has made what amounts to a $6,000 donation to the Andersonville Volunteer Fire Department, they just made it in the form of a pickup truck. The AVFD purchased the vehicle at a much reduced cost from the local Ford dealership, a Ford F250 Diesel 4 door 4x4 pickup truck.

The Andersonville Volunteer Fire Department was dispatched to the 100
block of Old Burrville Ln in the Clinton area just before 3:00pm on Monday
for a report of smoke coming from a residence.

Fire units arrived on the scene within minutes reporting light smoke from the house. Firefighters made entry into the structure to find a small fire in a back bedroom near the electrical panel.

Your Fire Department has had a very successful year again this year with members complete the state mandated classes to come fire fighters. Then we also had 2 members who continued complete additional courses to reach the Firefighter Level II.

If anyone is interested and wants to attend, they need to let me know ASAP!!

Jeff

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The Following Information on Smokey Mountain Weekend and the Chief Officer Course is from Chief Tony Watson of Pigeon Forge. Chief Watson is President of the Sevier County Fire Chief’s Association.

The raffle began back in July and ended in October.

The process began by gaining approval from the State of Tennessee and submitting all necessary paperwork and requests through the Secretary of State. In March, our request went before the State General Assembly and with the support of Senator McNally, and Representatives Jim Hackworth and Les Winningham it passed without any problems.

As we come to the end of another year, let’s look at the Accomplishments of 2009 for your Andersonville Volunteer Fire Department:

- Increased money in savings from $5,000 to $33,000 for future projects like station additions
- Placed $10,000 of that $33,000 in a high interest earning CD
- Increased funds from Fall Fund raising letter and Spring Fund Raising Letter