A member of the Floydada Volunteer Fire Department. (Ryan Crowe/FCR)
FLOYDADA – While it’s good the Floydada Volunteer Fire Department didn’t find themselves as busy during the month of May, the fact they still responded – and responded quickly – to dumpster fires and traffic accidents shows how they are always on the ready.
For May the department fielded eight calls for service, starting with a trash fire near a barn in the Sandhill community on May 3. On May 12 firefighters faced their most daunting task of the month in helping a farmer get a power line off his tractor near the Ralls Highway. Rural attack crews handled a smaller grass fire near the Floyd/Crosby County later that same afternoon.
On Sunday, May 15 crews found themselves at a traffic accident at the “Y” intersection of Highways 62 & 70 when a pickup truck ran into a power pole.
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On the evening of May 16 firefighters responded to a small lightning-strike wildfire near McCoy. The next night crews went over to Motley County to provide mutual aid for a fire in the Whiteflat community.
The month wrapped up for the department with two smaller incidents, a report of smoke in a home off E. Georgia on May 21 that did not turn up anything, then a dumpster fire in the alley of E. Crockett on May 26.
