While issues continue to impact Hempfield’s volunteer fire service, years of initiatives and efforts to reform the department are starting to pay off after officials received an improved rating from a ...

Dec. 15—Late this summer, Brunswick Fire officials expressed concern that the department might drop a spot or two from a long-held and coveted top tier ranking. Instead of exerting any further time on ...

CHINA GROVE — When Mike Zimmerman became chief of the China Grove Fire Department in fall 2014, he inherited a department with problems. Lacking records and information needed for an overdue ISO fire ...

Five years ago, the Pooletown Volunteer Fire Department had a fire safety rating of nine. In December, the Office of the State Marshal announced that the department had reduced their […] ...

The North Carolina Department of Insurance recently announced it has awarded Valley Hill Fire and Rescue an ISO Class 2 Fire Protection Rating, which places the local fire department in the top 2% of ...