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Keel Mountain Volunteer Fire/Rescue
Welcome to our site. We are a small volunteer fire department located on the top of Keel Mountain in NE Alabama, just outside the town of Gurley. We operate seven pieces of apparatus out of a single fire station, and average over a hundred fire and medical calls a year.
Meetings are held the Third Tuesday of each month, beginning at 7 pm, Board meetings are held on the third Tuesday of January, April, July, and October, beginning at 6:30 pm, the public is always welcome.
We are always looking for new members, firefighters, EMS personnel, or just a social member. If firefighting is not your thing, there are other jobs to be done on a fire scene, many hands make for light work. Drop us a line, we may have a space for you! The membership application is available for download below.
Meetings are held the Third Tuesday of each month, beginning at 7 pm, Board meetings are held on the third Tuesday of January, April, July, and October, beginning at 6:30 pm, the public is always welcome.
We are always looking for new members, firefighters, EMS personnel, or just a social member. If firefighting is not your thing, there are other jobs to be done on a fire scene, many hands make for light work. Drop us a line, we may have a space for you! The membership application is available for download below.
| kmvfd_application.pdf |
Burn Ban Information
Madison County, AL has an annual burn ban that is in effect from May 1st through October 31st EVERY year. This ban is not based on rainfall levels, any burning requires a permit from the Alabama Forestry Commission. Here is the information from their web site:
ADEM Burning Bans
To assist in meeting regional air quality standards the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) implements summer open burning bans from May 1st thru October 31st in twelve Alabama counties: Baldwin, DeKalb, Etowah, Jefferson, Lawrence, Madison, Mobile, Montgomery, Morgan, Shelby, Russell and Talladega Counties.
What is banned? The open burning of untreated wood from construction or demolition and the open burning of vegetation from clearing or maintaining non-agricultural property. “Prescribed burning of agricultural or forestlands for silvicultural, agricultural or wildlife management purposes is allowed under the AFC Burn Permits for these counties.”
For more information contact Lud Hoffmann at 334-271-7879
For more information go to http://www.forestry.alabama.gov/burnrestrictions.aspx
ADEM Burning Bans
To assist in meeting regional air quality standards the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) implements summer open burning bans from May 1st thru October 31st in twelve Alabama counties: Baldwin, DeKalb, Etowah, Jefferson, Lawrence, Madison, Mobile, Montgomery, Morgan, Shelby, Russell and Talladega Counties.
What is banned? The open burning of untreated wood from construction or demolition and the open burning of vegetation from clearing or maintaining non-agricultural property. “Prescribed burning of agricultural or forestlands for silvicultural, agricultural or wildlife management purposes is allowed under the AFC Burn Permits for these counties.”
For more information contact Lud Hoffmann at 334-271-7879
For more information go to http://www.forestry.alabama.gov/burnrestrictions.aspx
