{"id":8,"date":"2017-05-18T19:26:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T19:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww89dev.com\/msestemp1\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2024-09-19T14:29:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T14:29:27","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/msfes.net\/stokesdale\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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69 years ago, when a building caught on fire in Stokesdale, neighbors responded as quickly as word<\/span>–<\/span>of<\/span>–<\/span>mouth could spread. With no special equipment or training in fighting fires, they used the only\u00a0<\/span>resources they had to fight the blazes<\/span> \u2013<\/span> determination an<\/span>d buckets of water. All too often, they were no\u00a0<\/span>match for the blazes that inevitably reduced yet another home, business or tobacco barn to a heap of\u00a0<\/span>ashes.<\/span><\/span><\/p>


Things slowly began to change in 1954, however, after a small group of about 18 men banded together\u00a0<\/span>to form a community fire department. They started with nothing<\/span> \u2013<\/span> no money to purchase a fire engine,\u00a0<\/span>no fire station to store it in, and no formal training. Their occupations ranged from mechanics to\u00a0<\/span>electricians to tobacco farmers. Though they were sm<\/span>all in number, they were mighty in their desire to\u00a0<\/span>protect homes and businesses in their community from being destroyed by fire.<\/span><\/span><\/p>


In its 69 year history, the department has expanded its first response coverage area from what initially\u00a0<\/span>encompassed only three<\/span> square miles to 36 square miles, parts of which extend from Guilford County,\u00a0<\/span>where the station is located on U.S.<\/span> Highway 158 in Stokesdale into Rockingham County. Seven fire\u00a0<\/span>Chiefs have preceded the current fire Chief Todd Gauldin, who has served as the<\/span> department\u2019s Chief\u00a0<\/span>since 1992. Throughout its history, scores of board members and hundreds of volunteer firefighters\u00a0<\/span>have served the community by volunteering with the fire department, and they have been supported by\u00a0<\/span>countless family members who have sa<\/span>crificed time with family members so they could stop whatever\u00a0<\/span>they were doing when an emergency call came in.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Our History 69 years ago, when a building caught on fire in Stokesdale, neighbors responded as quickly as word-of-mouth could spread. With no special equipment or training in fighting fires, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","wpbf-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/msfes.net\/stokesdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/msfes.net\/stokesdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/msfes.net\/stokesdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msfes.net\/stokesdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msfes.net\/stokesdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/msfes.net\/stokesdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1639,"href":"https:\/\/msfes.net\/stokesdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/1639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msfes.net\/stokesdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}