Rist Canyon Volunteer Fire Department

Burn Permits

Larimer County requires you get a burn permit to burn slash during the winter month. This permit is avaliable online - see the link to Burn Permits on the left.

Note: RCVFD does not grant or administer the burn permits, this is a Larimer County function.

Rist Canyon Volunteer Fire Department – 2009 Profile

In 1975 a group of dedicated residents in Rist Canyon joined forces to create Rist Canyon Volunteer Fire Department.

Thirty Four Years Later ….we thank them for their vision and foresight – a vision that has lasted, evolved and grown with our community. What they started with hard work, donated equipment and their own personal signatures guaranteeing a loan to build RCVFD Station 1 has grown today into a well funded (still not a tax district), dynamic and effective fire department that provides EMS and Fire Protection in an enlarged area.

Today, Rist Canyon Volunteer Fire Department is a group of dedicated individuals and community supporters who work together to provide fire and emergency medical response in a 105 square mile area north west of Fort Collins.

About the new RCVFD Web Site

Those of you who have visited RCVFD's web site in the past will note a difference here. We are updating the page - so the basic site is here, but some of the previous information (like maping your house relative to the fire stations) is not yet here. We will be adding new information as time goes on - so we hope you will find this site more useful than the past. I've turned off new user registration for now (lower right) - as there is no value in it for you - but we will proably start using it in the future. - Bob Gann

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 Responders

Training:

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: