About Highland Home Fire and Rescue Department

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Highland Home Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department (HHVFR) was established by a group of men and women in the community that recognized the need for life protection and ambulance service. In 1972 a group of men and women in the community began establishing what is now known as Highland Home Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department. During this time, they acquired and built mostly homemade trucks and equipment. The department was officially incorporated as a non-profit organization on May 26, 1976. The original Board of Directors were; Gail Smith, Gene Oswald, Charles Porter and Earl White. The first engine the department owned was a 1956 American LaFrance on a Ford chassis. The department has grown immensely over the last 48 years and proudly serves the Highland Home and surrounding communities. Pictured above is some of the founding members of the department around the year 1972.

Highland Home Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department is an all volunteer organization made up of dedicated members that serve the Highland Home and surrounding communities. Highland Home Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department strives to provide the best service possible in both Fire and EMS. We pride ourselves in continued training, certification and professionalism. Highland Home Volunteer Fire and Rescue has five licensed paramedics and three licensed EMT’s with well over one-hundred years of combined EMS experience. As well as many certified firefighters.  

Highland Home Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department has one of the largest coverage areas of Crenshaw County with approximately 45 square miles of primary fire and EMS coverage area and a total of around 70 total square miles of first due mutual aid coverage. We average around 400 calls for service per year, operating a fleet of seven apparatus, 3 Engines, a Brush Truck, 2 Chief/Command vehicles and a rescue truck. The department is the only fire department in Crenshaw County that has a license by the state of Alabama to provide Emergency Medical Services at the Advanced Life Support Level (ALS) with licensed paramedics and EMT’s. Highland Home Fire and Rescue is also one of the departments in Crenshaw County that provides extrication at automobile collisions. We primarily serve the Northern part of Crenshaw County and provide mutual aid to other departments in Crenshaw County. We also assist Montgomery, Lowndes and Pike Counties.

We carry equipment for all types of different emergencies. We currently carry cardiac monitors on all 6 of our ALS units. As far as extrication, we carry rescue tools on two of our units Rescue 689 and Engine 651 that consists of two combi tools, a cutter, a spreader and three rams. Along with the extrication tools we also carry different types of cribbing, struts and airbags. We also carry and cascade system on Rescue 689 to refill SCBA bottles on scene.