Rist Canyon Volunteer Fire Department

2010 RCVFD Mountain Festival and Richard Schmid Fine Art Auction

It's time for the festival!

This Sunday- Sept 5, from 10-4 be sure to attend the RCVFD Mountain Festival and Richard Schmid Fine Art Auction. Not only will you be helping fund this great, donation based (not tax based) Fire Department - you will have a great time.

There will be:

World Class Fine Art - of course
Crafts
Live Entertainment
Kids games

All located in the beautiful Mountains just west of Fort Collins.

We can always use setup/teardown help on Saturday (starting about 10) and Monday.

RCVFD Community Alerts

RCVFD Volunteer Wes Rutt has long maintained the "RCVFD Community Alert" email list. This list is used to send out emergency or community urgent information (never 'general' or 'advertisements') . The RCVFD Community Alert is now maintained through the RCVFD web pages. This means you can subscribe and unsubscribe here, and you can read previous alerts here. To subscribe click on Community Alerts above.

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.

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

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