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To thank their local community, the new Leicester Volunteer Fire Department held an open house with food, fellowship, and fun for their community. Hear from fire chiefs and board members about the importance of this new fire station, and how thankful they are for the community of Leicester.
A
A
B
B
We're
out
in
the
Leicester
community,
in
district
3,
celebrating
the
grand
opening
and
dedication
the
Leicester
Fire
Department,
substation,
3
and
newfound
great
community
out
here.
The
all
the
communities
turned
out.
They've
had
BBQ
and
just
a
great
celebration,
a
lot
of
fun
and
fellowship
and
brought
out
all
the
equipment
for
the
kids
to
see,
and
they
even
had
a
minute
miniature
fire
truck
over
here
with
the
kids
to
play
with.
B
C
Today,
there's
been
several
attempts
to
build
a
substation
in
New
Found
community
over
the
years
and
for
whatever
reason
it
didn't
pan
out
and
then
here
a
few
years
ago,
things
just
seem
to
fall
into
place
and
we're
very
blessed
to
be
able
to
fly
this
piece
of
property
and
to
build
the
substation.
Here
we
could
better
serve
the
people
who
lost
a
community.
D
When
looking
for
a
side
in
this
area
sometime
and
this
land
was
partially
donated
by
the
Duquette
family,
it
was
paid
for
but
partially
donated,
and
we
were
most
appreciative
to
them
and
that's
the
reason
we
selected
this
side.
It
had
a
lot
of
empties
to
it.
Well
septic
tank
things
already
on
it,
so
it
was
I
do
currently.
A
C
First,
responding
vehicle
was
able
to
get
to
the
scene
within
our
three
four
and
a
half
minutes,
as
opposed
to
probably
ten
coming
from
the
main
station
10
to
12.
So
it's
it's
to
help
with
response
time.
One
of
our
main
efforts
are
doing.
This
also
was
to
get
people
in
the
upper
newfound
area
and
actually
in
upper
parts
of
South
Turkey
Creek
in
a
rated
saw
district.
If.
A
You
live
within
five
miles
of
a
fire
station.
You
are
able
to
obtain
a
rating
commensurate
with
what
your
abilities
within
your
department,
or
far
as
equipment
and
manpower
and
water.
If
you
are
an
underrated
in
an
unrated
area
which
the
upper
end
and
you
found
in
South,
Turkey
Creek
was
previous
to
the
placement
is
stationed.
There
were
at
a
class
10,
which
is
unrated
that
insurance
rate
was
probably
almost
double
what
they
would
be
paying
now
being
in
a
rated
district.
D
The
community
is
drawing.
We
wanted
to
have
a
nice
fire
department
that
was
an
asset
to
the
community.
We
think
we
have.
That
is
step
by
dedicated
professional
folks
for
the
best
case
scenarios.
We
never
have
to
use
this
facility,
but
in
case
you
do
you're
taking
care
of
by
officials
and
highly
trained
individuals,
good
equipment
and
a
nice
fire
station.
Lester.
E
Fire
Department
is
part
of
our
permanent
checking
stations
that
we
have
throughout
Buncombe
County,
so
we
support
them
in
child
passenger
safety
and
another
aspects
of
injury
prevention.
So,
since
they're
having
their
open
house
today,
we
decided
to
come
out
and
share
some
safety
information
and
give
out
some
goodies
to
the
children.
Safe
kids
covers
all
unintentional
injury
from
birth,
age
14,
so
one
of
our
main
focuses
child
passenger
safety
also
address
water
safety.
Fire
gun
fall,
playgrounds,
bike
and
pedestrian.
F
Mark
parker
from
the
West
buncombe
fire
department-
and
we
came
out
today
to
show
people
some
fire
safety
tips
and
about
how
to
escape
in
case
there
is
a
fire
at
their
home.
What
we
do
is
we
will
have
people
when
they
come
in
and
we
talked
to
them
about
meeting
places
where
they'll
go
and
after
they
get
go
to
escape
by
fire.
C
A
We
just
appreciate
the
community
support
during
the
construction
of
the
station.
We've
had
it
open
now
for
almost
a
year,
and
we
tried
to
build
it
as
something
that
would
fit
into
the
community.
We
feel
like
we've
done
pretty
good
in
that
aspect
and
we're
just
we're
proud
of
it
and
we
hope
for
communities
brown
on
we're.
C
Going
to
find
a
four
year-
and
he
replied
that
kind
of
commemorate
this
day
and
the
plaque
says
list
of
volunteer
fire
department,
station
3
and
then
the
final
substation
bunch
of
service
7,
10
2012,
dedicated
615
tane.
The
board
members
involved
in
pleasure,
mistress
only
beginning.
It's
the
doctor
board
a
very
enthusiastic
about
putting
a
substation
in
this
area.
The
president
until
lemons,
botha,
that
John
Jones
treasurer
do
together,
Secretariat
galveston
members
at
large,
rona
president
Patricia
or
Kevin
Brown
and
kill
trees,
tip
Williams,
our
chief
and
our
immediate
past
president
mr.
Chris
Brown.
C
So
you
could
see
like
to
display
the
plaque
there
who
got
one
more
special
presentation
that
they
want
a
promoter
put
into
this
build
a
park
conference
for
this
period,
again:
pathan
Elizabeth
and
we
put
on
a
property
here.
He
said
to
the
20
out
of
20
came
in
first
week
in
april,
I'm
21
and
Donald
passed
away.
I
would,
however,
you
could
have
been
in
delivering
today.
Chief
and
I
went
out
there
and
was
on
the
project,
contact
with
and
say
it
was
they
were
giddy.