Tom McMackin / Chief Sarah Hancock
our Klickitat County Fire Protection District #14 / High Prairie logged 108 runs in 2022 (so far in 2023, 16 runs). The majority of these incident responses were medical calls. There were no significant wildfire calls of High Prairie or Lyle districts in 2023. We provided mutual aid to a few of our neighboring districts. We declined requests for state mobility assistance for major conflagration events in order to keep our resources at home for the protection and support of our communities.
Firefighter Brenda Edin completed her course work to become an EMT to service our communities! KC EMS director Dr. Russel Smith met with Brenda. He expressed his appreciation for her hard work and dedication to her community along with his signature on her WA DOH EMS credential application. The application, including her national EMT certification documents, has been submitted to WA DOH EMS to receive her WA EMT credentials. Brenda’s hard work to become an EMT will secure four EMS responders for our High Prairie/Lyle communities. Thanks, Brenda!
In that same spirit of service, Chief Hancock has been busy attending to the challenges involved in bringing FD14 High Prairie into the Brave New (tech) World. She has created beta-versions for a High Prairie Fire Facebook page and a dedicated KCFPD #14 website, HIGH PRAIRIE FIRE (https://highprairiefire.com) for our community. She is also working diligently to integrate her skills sets into the department’s legacy of service to the community; into the skills, strengths and dedication of our volunteers on the Fire and HPCC sides; into the networking required to find opportunities to reinforce KCFPD #14’s strong foundation of safety and training; and working with KCFPD #14’s officers and firefighters to develop monthly drills, post-Covid, designed to restore hands-on field experience. Chief Hancock is also a board member with the Columbia Gorge Training Association, which will provide KCFPD #14 with a broad scope of grant possibilities as well as access to a wide range of available regional and state fire training resources.
If you would like to see the kinds of activities that occupy our volunteers or are interested in joining KCFPD #14, please feel free to stop by the Struck Road Fire hall at 701 Struck Road on the 1st/2nd/4th Tuesday of the month.
You are welcome to come and look at the department’s infrastructure and equipment and talk with a volunteer or two about what we do and the types of services we provide. Questions and comments ? Please leave contact information with time and date by phone at Station 1 [1-509-637-2576) or at either of these email addresses