Join us for the 3rd annual RCVFD/Stove Pririe PTO 10K fun run.

Welcome everyone and thank you for your interest in this years Old Flowers Road Family Run!  All proceeds from the run go to benefit the Rist Canyon Volunteer Fire Department and Stove Prairie School and are fully tax deductable.  This years run will take place on August 24th from 8AM to 10AM at 3891 Stove Prairie Rd, Bellvue, CO.  If you are participating, please make sure to arrive by 7:30 to give yourself time to sign in and receive your T-shirt.  Here are some fun facts about our run:

RCVFD Volunteer Wes Rutt has long maintained the "RCVFD Community Alert" email list.  This list is used to send out emergency or community urgent information (never 'general' or 'advertisements') .  The RCVFD Community Alert is now maintained through the RCVFD web pages.  This means you can subscribe and unsubscribe here, and you can read previous alerts here.  To subscribe click on Community Alerts above.

How is RCVFD Funded?

Rist Canyon VFD is a donation based volunteer fire department.  We are not a Fire Protection District and receive no tax funds.  

RCVFD is staffed purely by Volunteers - whether fire fighters or admin (BOD) and others, nobody get's paid and we always need new people. 

RCVFD has two primary funding mechanisms:

• Direct Dontations:  These are donations from residents, land owners, visiters, etc - people who recognize the value RCVFD brings and want to help. 
  
  • Note: RCVFD does not charge for services and there is no connection between your donation and any emergency response.  Indeed, RCVFD emergency responders do not know if you have donated or not - we just respond to 911 calls.  If you receive help from RCVFD during an emergency and have not supported RCVFD with a donation, consider making a special dontation today. 
  • Donations to RCVFD are tax exempt.
• Special Fund Raising Events - such as the RCVFD Moutain Festival and Richard Schmid Fine Art Auction.

• They participate and attend training for safety, wildland fire, structure fire, MVA extrication, vehicle file, EMS (medical) response, hazmat, propane fire, electrical emergency, traffic control SCBA, emergency vehicle driving and general emergency management.  To participate they are required to attend a set amount of training.

Responses:

• RCVFD responders are on call 24/7.  They are paged by Larimer County Sheriff's dispatch (the people who answer when you dial 911) and respond as available.
• RCVFD does not maintain "on call" crews.  We are all on call.

Equipment:

• RCVFD operates 10 emergency vehicles out of 3 stations and one additional location (Buckhorn).