North Star Volunteer Fire Department

Steese Volunteer Fire Department (SVFD) is a non-profit corporation arranged in 1979 for the purpose of fire protection suppression and community fire education. The department ended up being formed by several people who saw a desperate need in rural community for fire suppression solutions. Numerous houses and lives had been being lost as a result of insufficient sufficient protection. Military, municipal and wildland units offered some emergency reactions, but these were limited, sporadic and untimely. Several months of work and late night meetings lead to the beginnings associated with the arranging for the division and service area.

Fire reaction: The Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly officially established the Steese Fire Service Area, after a good vote associated with residents of the service location. Through multiple voluntary annexations the solution location has grown to its present dimensions. The division filed Articles of Incorporation and obtained certification by the State on the same time, July 2, 1979.

The fire service area is located just north east of the City of Fairbanks. The service area is a division of this Fairbanks North Star Borough. Its board of Commissioners acts as the agent for Borough inside administration associated with Fire provider Contract because of the Department. The solution location includes 39.52 square miles of rural/suburban residential properties with a population of around 9, 750. Funding is raised through levy of a mil price taxation on residential property within the service area and it is forwarded towards the division the operation of contracted solutions. Many device, equipment and facilities tend to be property for the Fairbanks North celebrity Borough; but the agreement makes the division the only real trustee of the resources.

EMS Response: Since its founding, the division has furnished EMS very first Responder solutions, using several ambulance transportation agencies. On July 1, 2000, the Department assumed the ambulance transportation agreement for your northeastern percentage of the Fairbanks North celebrity Borough, a place of around 2, 500 square kilometers.

In addition to supplying services to these major areas, the department through mutual-aid agreements with other fire divisions in the Fairbanks North celebrity Borough provides crisis service in the shape of assistance to these additional solution places. To meet up with its duties, the department runs three motors, three liquid tenders, two ambulances and lots of utility automobiles off three programs.