Volunteer Depts near Dallas

[dpg612]

Are there any volunteer departments near the Dallas area?

[Gambit7]

Are there any volunteer departments near the Dallas area?

There are plenty. I currently volunteer for Sunnyvale Fire Rescue. Rockwall, Forney, Combine, Ferris, etc all have volunteers. Check around, lots of small towns outside of the DFW metroplex have volunteer depts.

[LaFireEducator]

Depends on how far you want to live from Dallas.

The closest one to the city is Double Oak, which is located just northwest of Dallas.

Very small response area with only one apartment complex on the fringe. Everything else in the district is fairly expensive single-family residental.

Fairly squared away department with a couple of engines and a couple of brush trucks.

A few years ago it looked like my wife was going to be transferred to Dallas so I did a bunch of research.

[dpg612]

Hows the call volume and training availability at some of these places? Many of the ones I have found websites for don't seem like what I expected, most seem very small. I'm coming from Long Island, NY and considering relocating for a job.

[fire49]

Tx volunteer depts I think you will find out are a little different then back east

Funding very low vehicles not as new

[fire49]

Tx volunteer depts I think you will find out are a little different then back east

Funding very low vehicles not as new

Most cities in dfw are all paid

[LaFireEducator]

Tx volunteer depts I think you will find out are a little different then back east

Funding very low vehicles not as new

Most cities in dfw are all paid

As Fire said, most departments in the DFW metro area are either all paid or part paid with some volunteer staff that pull in-station shifts and don't respond from home.

The department I looked at, Double Oak ran about 150 calls 5 years ago, with a lot of mutual and brush and wildland response.

Go to dovfd.org and that will give you a perspective on them as well as some of the other departments in Denton County, which is northwest of Dallas and northeast of Fort Worth.

[dpg612]

LaFire thanks for the tip and link.
This really is a whole different world, my home department gets almost 900 fire and 5500 ems calls. The 150 they ran 5 years ago was a couple of weeks here....

As Fire said, most departments in the DFW metro area are either all paid or part paid with some volunteer staff that pull in-station shifts and don't respond from home.

The department I looked at, Double Oak ran about 150 calls 5 years ago, with a lot of mutual and brush and wildland response.

Go to dovfd.org and that will give you a perspective on them as well as some of the other departments in Denton County, which is northwest of Dallas and northeast of Fort Worth.

[dfwfirefighter]

Almost every department in the DFW Metroplex is career. There are very few FDs with remaining volunteer components that I am aware of.

As you leave the confines of Denton (to the north), Mesquite (to the east), Arlington (to the south), and Fort Worth (to the west), almost all of the FDs go from all-career to all-volunteer.

The following in the DFW Metroplex are all-career:

Arlington
Bedford
Carrollton
Dallas
Denton
DFW Airport
Euless
Flower Mound
Frisco
Garland
Grand Prairie
Grapevine
Hurst
Irving
Lewisville
Mesquite
Plano
Richardson

Although there are a few little departments scattered "here and there" inside the Metroplex, most are all-career.

[dpg612]

Almost every department in the DFW Metroplex is career. There are very few FDs with remaining volunteer components that I am aware of.

As you leave the confines of Denton (to the north), Mesquite (to the east), Arlington (to the south), and Fort Worth (to the west), almost all of the FDs go from all-career to all-volunteer.

The following in the DFW Metroplex are all-career:

Arlington
Bedford
Carrollton
Dallas
Denton
DFW Airport
Euless
Flower Mound
Frisco
Garland
Grand Prairie
Grapevine
Hurst
Irving
Lewisville
Mesquite
Plano
Richardson

Although there are a few little departments scattered "here and there" inside the Metroplex, most are all-career.

I found a few North East near McKinney, anyone have an opinion to share about any of them?

[fire49]

As you stated vol back east are different then Texas

Back east they actualy cover large cities, like a paid one , while the vol in Texas cover more rural cities and do not have the equipment like a vol back east

Normaly

[LaFireEducator]

Don't know much about near McKinney.

When I was looking over there my wife's office was going to be just west of Dallas in Irving, so I concentrated my search in Denton and tarrant counties within 45 minutes of her office.

As Fire49 stated, the vast majority of the area around Dallas until you get an hour out, or more, are career or primarily career. My suggestion would be to simply get a good map and look up some of the departments north of McKinney, or northern denton county and see what you hit.