To the Citizens of the Thrall Community:

We would like to take a few minutes of your time to ask for your support.

The Thrall Fire Dept. and Thrall First Responders is made up of a group of men and women who are dedicated, unpaid volunteers that respond to fire calls, wrecks, and medical calls. We respond to emergencies in fire trucks as well as our personal vehicles to extinguish dangerous fires and provide medical care/assistance to patients prior to the EMS ambulance arriving. When needed, we assist the EMS ambulance in the transporting of the patient to the hospital. The Thrall Fire Dept. not only covers the Thrall fire district of 75 sq. miles, but also provides assistance to the surrounding fire departments in Williamson County and West Milam County area.

There are approx. 26 members in the Thrall Fire Dept. and 4 personnel in the first responder organization. When you call 911 and request the fire department or EMS, Taylor Fire Dispatch pages out the Thrall firemen to your location. The members of the fire dept. are not paid by the EMS, Williamson County, or through the ambulance fee. We survive on your donations, by fund-raising events, minimal annually county funding, which the County Commissioners are considering no longer giving to the fire departments, and a lot of times by money out of our own pockets. Through the years many of you have seen us at work, at your or your families’ home, at accidents, or other fire emergencies. In the East part of Williamson County the closest paid fire dept is approx. 15 to 30 minutes away, depending on what part of the Thrall area you live in. Depending on the circumstances, it can take only a few minutes for a hay field or small house to become fully engulfed with fire.

In order for your Thrall Fire Dept. to provide a quick response it is important that we are able to update our equipment, maintain the fire trucks, and continue our education. The cost of buying equipment and maintaining it is very expensive. Currently we have 2 fire trucks that the fire dept. is paying for. The first truck we have been paying on for 10 years with a total price of $150,000. The second truck, a new brush unit, was recently purchased due to our other 2 brush trucks being outdated and unreliable. This brush truck is not only used for grass fires but can also be used as a mini pumper at structure fires, which allows the firemen to get water on the fire faster. Even with a grant from the Forestry Service, the fire dept. still has to pay $22,000 from the total cost of $75,000 for the brush truck. In order to house and protect the fire trucks it was necessary to add an extension to the fire station, which totaled $30,000. There is, also, an annual cost of thousands of dollars the fire dept. must spend on maintenance for the extrication tools, which are used to cut entrapped patients out of mangled vehicles involved in motor vehicle collisions. The Thrall Fire Dept. pays for all utilities used at the fire station, and fuel needed to run the trucks and equipment. As the cost of maintaining our fire dept. has increased, the funding we receive has remained the same.

If you are interested in donating towards the purchase of the fire trucks and maintenance of our equipment, please drop off your tax-deductible donations at the Thrall City Hall during normal business hours, or to one of the people listed below. Donations may also be mailed to:

Thrall Vol. Fire Dept.
P.O. Box 386
Thrall, Texas 76578

Checks should be made out to “Thrall Fire Dept. – Truck Fund.”

Your support in the past and continued support is GREATLY appreciated. Anyone interested in joining the Thrall Fire Department and/or the Thrall First Responders should please feel free to contact any current member of either organization.

Philip Dubek, Fire Chief:    983-7031
Ryan Carroll, Assistant Chief:   293-5042

 

Donations

Donation Form

Name:__________________________________________ Date: ____________
Address:__________________________________________________________
Street                                           City          State     Zip

Amount:     0 $5.00     0 $10.00     0 $15.00     0 Other $__________

Mail Donations to:

Thrall Volunteer Fire Dept.
Donations
P.O. Box 386
Thrall, TX 76578

 

Downloadable Version of Donation Form

Downloadable Version of Letter to the Community