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Executive Board E-Mail: Links Section
President:
Rodney Ryalls
1st Vice President:
Doug Page
2nd Vice President:
Mark Hanson
3rd Vice President:
Elaine Myers
4th Vice President:
Mike Richardson
Secretary/Treasurer:
Scott White
Chaplin:
Will Norris
Past President:
Tony Fox
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District Area News & Training
2008 Spring Convention the District passed 11 admendments to the constitution. The major chage was our name. The district name is (Red River Fireman's & Fire Marshals' Association). There will be a posting soon of the updated constitution on this site. The name change with phase in through out the year.
District shirts will be available at all schools, conventions, and mail order. If your department is current dues paid to the district shipping is free. Contact district secretary for shirts.Also if your department has a web site please forward your site address to us so that we add link off of district web page. Please check out the updated State web site www.sffma.org there is a wealth of information for any level firefighter to seek out on this site.
From the District Secretary/Treasurer to the Membership of the Red River Fireman's & Fire Marshals' Association
Red River District 10 organized from fire departments of the following 12 Counties: Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Jack, Knox, Montague, Wichita, Wilbarger, Wise, and Young
Your District Officers as of 04/06/08:
Doug Page, Bowie FD/VFD
Red River Firman's & Fire Marshal's Association Constitution and By laws, download Constitution
At this time the district is still asking departments to pay 2008 dues $20.00 into the district. This helps in putting on area schools and mailers. We have 91 departments in 12 counties, and 2007 we had 34 departments paid in. Paid 2008 departments are: Wichita Falls, Burkburnett, Henrietta, Bowie, Decatur, Windthorst, Charlie-Thornberry, Friberg-Cooper, Kamay, Joy, Iowa Park, Petrolia, Holiday, Cameron Gardens, Arrowhead Ranch Estate, Wichita West and Lake Arrowhead.
Your department input and participation is needed, and we look forward to working with you, and for you.
Respectfully, Scott L. White, Red River District 10 Secretary/Treasurer
Contact:
Red River District 10, SFFMA Secretary/Treasurer
Scott White, Burkburnett VFD
100 Tommy Thornton Way
Burkburnett, TX 76354
(940)-569-3553 FD
(940)-733-5955 Cell
E-mail: dragoonsaber@yahoo.com
E-mail: swhite@burkfire.org
Training
Together We Protect
The 11th Annual West Texas District Fire School was a great success. There were 41 fire departments, 134 students, 1,860 training hours, and this averaged to 13.88 hours per student. The district executive board planned a very aggressive class schedule of 18 classes throughout the weekend were a student could gain up 20 hours of training. We realize that the registration needs to be better and will work towards this goal. Registration will be held at the Public Safety Training Center in the truck bay out of the weather in the future.
We are looking for your feedback on future classes, and as always instructors. If everyone would bring one person back to school that attended we would of course double the number of attendance. Please contact any executive board member on wants, needs, concerns, and improvements towards our common goal of training. The executive board has read the feedback comments from the school evaluations and will work to improve on all areas. Next area school will be May 3rd & 4th, 2008 at the same location. Registration will be at Public Safety Training Center 710 Flood Street in Wichita Falls with TEEX.
Area School Courses
download THIS MS Word file
Please use this for Registration to Register for School! downloadTHIS MS Word file SFFMA Objective hours & Credit hours download THIS MS Word file
35th Wichita Falls Area Fire Protection School May 3 & 4, 2008
Firefighters needed for training at the City of Wichita Falls Fire Department Fire Training Field, at 1302 Harding
School Location
Extinguishers
Action Photos go to: www.burkfire.org and click on Action Photos.
Fundraising/Grants for the District
http://txforestservice.tamu.edu/main/article.aspx?id=1536
Texas Forest Service Special Notice!
NIMS Compliance download THIS Adobe PDF file
Federal Grant Eligibility!
Interstate Battery Fundraising Program
The State Firemen’s and Fire Marshals’ Association is entering into an agreement with the Interstate Batteries Corporation to provide a fundraising opportunity for the association. At the January 27th Executive Board meeting, the board approved the proposal by Interstate Batteries to provide 30% of all online sales on batteries to be returned to SFFMA. The Executive Board also earmarked money from this fundraising opportunity would go to each of the SFFMA districts to assist with training opportunities, membership drives, etc.
The advantages of this program are:
- It’s free and it’s ongoing.
- These are everyday alkalines and batteries for cell phones, watches, etc (not car batteries) – Over 10,000 different types! Interstate Battery performance is equivalent to the higher end batteries offered on the market today.
- People are already buying batteries at grocery stores, home improvement stores and discount clubs. Now they can do so and support the fire service of Texas!
- All the VFD’s have to do is tell people about the program, provide the website address of www.ibsa.com/fire, and provide the code “fire” so that the sale is linked back to the association. The people order them online like any other online purchase, they’re shipped straight to the person’s doorstep, and SFFMA gets the proceeds.
- Interstate takes care of the delivery and any concerns during the process.
- Interstate has email and printed materials that will be available to the departments.
- Interstate will provide a logo, website link, and a webpage specific to SFFMA for ordering the products.
- Local churches and businesses can buy through the website, too, and support the VFD with their purchases. Look for more information on this program at SFFMA online at www.sffma.org
http://www.ibsa.com/estore/Fundraisingdefault.asp
