Photo Gallery  One of the things Old Richmond firefighters do best is eat! We host the July meeting of the Forsyth County Firemen's Association, where we serve ice cream. We have a community appreciation chicken stew in conjunction with Fire Prevention Week. We have an annual chicken stew with neighboring departments every February. Since Thursday is our regular meeting night and sometimes there are five Thursdays in a month, we eat hamburgers and hot dogs instead of having a training meeting on fifth Thursdays. The above picture is of some of our firemen, including the chief on the far right, who cooks barbecue for our annual banquet each November. (They like to sneak a few bites as they chop!)   Every July 4th, in the neighboring community of East Bend, we enter the firetruck in the parade. We have entered the truck in the firetruck competition and entered some firefighers in the firefighter's challenge in previous years and we have always done well. The parade is a fun time to see friends and family. It also gives us the opportunity to ride on top of the truck and throw candy to the kids.
  It's nice to see Sparky and McGruff having such a good time at the community open house. It looks like the beginning of a beautiful friendship!
 

 

We also love LP Gas training. Since RJR is in our backyard, we are invited every year to participate in the LP Gas training with the fire brigade. We also have our own class at the school behind the fire department.   Here is another great LP Gas picture taken as the firefighters were getting ready to attack.   Everybody in the fire department can tell you at least one story about the big railroad track fire. However, trying to figure out which one they are talking about could be a problem. We have these fires, which are started by the train, every spring and fall. Last year, we had one once a week for almost the entire spring fire season. Here is a picture of our brush truck driving down the tracks. We were burning a house for training beside the railroad tracks the day this picture was taken and watched the train start this fire, which ended up to be a condition 5 woods fire.     To view pictures from several of our training fires, click on the next button.