Facebook Link

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bedford-County-Department-of-Fire-Rescue/160295024019218?ref=ts

 Also some valuable information about social media do's/don'ts:

http://www.firerescue1.com/fire-department-management/articles/859991-Dont-get-fired-for-Facebook-10-ways-to-use-social-media-safely/


National FF Memorial

The National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend
- Include this Tribute Box:
On Your Website
- Ways to Honor Fallen FFs
- Share a Memory on the:
Remembrance Banner
- For More Visit:
Weekend.FireHero.org

Region 2000 Hazard Plan

 

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Contact Information

Bedford County Fire and Rescue
1305 Falling Creek Road
Bedford, VA  24523

Non-Emergency:
540-587-0700

Emergency:
911

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Bedford County Department of Fire & Rescue is a combination volunteer/career department serving the citizens and visitors of Bedford County in a wide-range of emergency services. 

The department is lead by Chief Jack Jones, Jr. who is responsible for all facets of fire and emergency services operations within Bedford CountyThe Office of the Chief has a Deputy Chief of Fire Operations, a Battalion Chief of Hazardous Materials, a Battalion Chief of Special Operations Command, a Battalion Chief Wildland Operations, a Deputy Chief EMS Division, a Field Captain and two Field Lieutenants. The Administrative Manager and Administrative Assistant provide direct support to the organizational structure and functions by performing various administrative, secretarial and clerical duties.

Mission:

To protect the lives and property of the citizens and visitors of Bedford County while providing safe, timely, compassionate, effective and efficient services.

Vision:

To strive to find better ways of protecting the lives and property of our fellow man through education, prevention, preparedness, outreach and innovation in order to be a leader in the fire and emergency services field.  We must be forward thinking and take a proactive approach to all that we do.

To learn more about our organization, please click on the following document:

 
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  How Can You Serve Your Community?......Volunteer!
Volunteers are people just like you who are willing to devote time and energy every day to saves lives and property. You don’t need to have prior training, just a desire to learn. There is always room for one more good person on our team. Becoming a volunteer will allow you to do things that you never imagined.

Bedford County Fire & EMS volunteers do not receive a salary but volunteering can offer you much, much more than monetary rewards…
Volunteer Benefits include:
  • The opportunity to be part of Bedford County’s Fire & Rescue Community helping your family, friends and neighbors. 
  • Free training that meets or exceeds Virginia and national standards.
     
  • Being a volunteer helps to keep your taxes low by saving Bedford County millions of dollars in personnel costs.
     
  • Length of Service Awards Program (LOSAP).
     
  • Liability and accident insurance while acting in your official capacity as a volunteer. 

    If you would like to volunteer, please click on the "volunteers application" tab and fill out a volunteer application today!  

 

 






A Weekly Trivia Post

Every week Bedford County Department of Fire & Rescue will post a trivia question related to fire or rescue services and give Bedford County Department of Fire & Rescue Volunteer Members an opportunity to WIN a GIFT CERTIFICATE to a local restaurant.  To answer the question, the participant must go to our facebook page http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001958457204 and inbox "Firefighter Bedford".  The first volunteer member (not employeed by Bedford County) to answer the question right will receive a gift certificate.  Check back every week to see the new question and the name of the winner from the previous week.  Good luck! (Only one answer per person, per question)

This week's question has been answered correctly! Please check back next week for a new question!

A major concern in caring for a patient with an impaled object to the cheek is:

a) dressing the wound      

b) maintaining an open airway

c) checking to see if the tongue is cut

d) positioning the head for drainage

 

  Be sure to inbox your answer to FIREFIGHTER BEDFORD on Facebook !


Emergency Notification

http://ens.geo-comm.com/bedfordva/Default.aspx?ck=A1

Click on the link to register for Emergency Notifications from Bedford County to come to your cell phone.  Bedford County, in partnership with Geo-Comm, will send telephone notifications to residents and businesses within Bedford County, when impacted by, or in danger of being impacted by, an emergency or disaster. The Bedford County Emergency Notification System will only be used by emergency response personnel in order to notify residential homes and businesses with information regarding the event and if/what actions should be taken.

The Bedford County Emergency Notification System utilizes the area’s 911 data and can contact all land-lines, whether listed or unlisted, in the event of an emergency. It is TTY/TDD capable. If you utilize a Voice Over IP (VoIP) phone service, such as MagicJack, Vonage or a cable company provided phone service, or cellular phone for your primary residential/business line and you would like to be alerted over that line with the Emergency Notification System then you must register that number through Bedford County’s Emergency Notification System Opt-In site.

To register your VoIP phone, cellular phone, or e-mail address with the Bedford County Emergency Notification System please click the link below. If you would like to see examples of getting email to SMS notifications on your cellular phone please scroll down.

PLEASE NOTE: When registering or making changes after registering your cell phone or email address in the Bedford County Emergency Notification System it may take as much as 4 weeks before that cell number or email address becomes active for notifications due to the review, validation and activation process the County must complete.  Additionally, changes to your land-line phone number with your phone carrier may take a similar length of time to get through to Bedford County to become active on the alerting system.

Service Delivery Feedback

Customer Service Feedback

 

 

Do you feel that our organization met it's mission of providingproviding safe, timely, compassionate, effective and efficient services during your recent emergency?:

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If you answered yes, please let us know what we did to make your experience positive.:

If you answered no, please let us know what can do to improve our service delivery.:

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