Service Statement

The Thomas Drive Volunteer Fire Department, Inc. endeavors to provide the citizens of the Thomas Drive Fire Protection District the most effective comprehensive fire and rescue services possible.
 

Service Goals

I Provide timely response to request for service
II Conduct safe and effective operations
III Recruit and retain the best fire and rescue personnel available

Service Objectives

A Provide a full range of fire and rescue services to the citizens of the
Thomas Drive Fire Protection District.
B Provide first responder support to the emergency medical service delivery to the citizens of the Thomas Drive Fire Protection District
C Provide High volume, master stream

Our Operations

Thomas Drive Volunteer Fire Department was founded April 18th, 1972 by Captain Tom B. Corely. Since being founded, we have become a combination department. Being as such, we are staffed around the clock. At the present time, we have three shifts of Career personnel and, just recently, we have been blessed with three career firefighters per shift.

Our volunteer roster usually stays around twenty or so, our rank structure, like every department, is unique. Starting with the Fire Chief, who is voted in annually, the Deputy Chief, voted annually, and assistant chief, who is also voted in annually. We have as few as one or as many as three Lieutenants. Next, in line, is the Safety Officer, charged with the responsibility of making sure all of us nozzle heads don't get too worked up, or we aren't in the way of a falling wall, and most importantly, keeping us hydrated! From the Safety officer, we move on down to the rank of Firefighter. One can become a firefighter after Six Months to One Year of probation, learning how to operate every single piece of basic firefighting equipment, learning our apparatus, and proving to the department that he or she can be counted on. If a seasoned firefighter decides to make a department change, either from moving down to Panama City Beach, or an inner-county transfer, their probationary period