MOOREFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY MENU Home Events History Apparatus Officers Donations Contact Information HOME HISTORY COMPANY HISTORY 87 YEARS OF CHARGING THE FLAME The Moorefield Volunteer Fire Company 46 was founded on March 17, 1934 to protect the town of Moorefield, West Virginia and its surrounding area. This small department began operations with a horse drawn "hose wagon" and later a 1934 Seagrave suburbanite pumper, which the department still owns today. Company 46 runs an average of 200 calls per year. No EMS calls are ran by the department, however the fighting 46 is sometimes dispatched on various types of automatic EMS calls and others as needed. Some fire departments tag themselves with a motto, while others copy theirs from historic companies. Moorefield Volunteer Fire Company 46 is one of the few that earned their motto “Second to None” while training with other volunteer and paid fire companies in the 1970’s. The following is an excerpt from Former Assistant Chief Bill Arnold’s account: “The motto came about when we were fire training in Winchester, VA for the National Officer’s exam. We were doing LP training with paid company members from all over Northern Virginia on the Christmas Tree. The technique involved pushing the flame back and allowing the officer to turn the valve off—this has to be perfectly timed, step-by-step, or the whole team may be injured. After our second successful pass, the instructor of the class, Bob Monroe, Chief of Fairfax County, remarked: ‘You might be volunteers, but you’re second to none.’ It was quite the compliment, so we kept it as our motto.” Copyright © 2021 - All Rights Reserved - Moorefieldfire.com Template by OS Templates