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Comment by flamefighter on November 11, 2010 at 1:56am

Is anyone out there looking to adopt a department? Do you get new equipment often and need to find a good home for your used equipment (trucks, air tanks, bunker gear, etc.) to either give away or sell cheap?

Comment by matthew Baker on March 15, 2009 at 10:20pm

what about a yard party? those seem to work for rural fire departments just get local agencies to donate things and have like a auction

Comment by Eric Scheirer on March 9, 2009 at 3:52pm

oh I forgot , we are also doing a spegetti dinner some time this summer. And I'm triing to put together a open house with an ice cream social and dance.

Comment by Eric Scheirer on March 9, 2009 at 3:49pm

Well this year we have a few things going on, we are doing two coin drops, the annule picnic, turkey raffle, breakfast with santa, and the fair. We just had a volleyball game with the teachers at the local elementry school. but we are always looking for more since we quit doing bingo. ( anyone want a bingo machine and equiptment???)

Comment by Jayson Spencer on February 2, 2009 at 10:02pm

have everyone at the event put money in a helmet then auction the money off noone knows how much they get and its a lot of fun u can always pass it around 2 or 3 times and alot of times the person that buys it will donate it back

Comment by Denise Co 29 on January 15, 2009 at 8:28pm

We are going to do the quarter auction in may and for july we are going to try the scratch off board .(www.abcfundraising.com ) This is the first we are going to try these 2 new fund raisers. I will let you know how they do.

Comment by Mike Schlags (Captain Busy) Retd on December 28, 2008 at 4:07pm

Fund Raiser Ideas:

1. Put together first aid kits and sell them at a profit. The ones you buy from the store are minimal and only good for minor cuts. Couple this with CERT training and you get both trained people with the right tools to do things.
2. Pancake breakfast with static display of equipment and apparatus. We've done this successfully for years, incorporating a poster contest for fire safety and a raffle with donated items.