Hampton Fire and Rescue

05/25/2026

05/22/2026

🎉 Hampton Fire would like to congratulate Drake Schafer our newest Nationally registered EMT!, Drake has been a firefighter on our department for just over a year and has recently completed 5 months of classes and passed all requirements for his national EMT certification.
Hampton Fire currently has 8 dedicated volunteer EMTs and 1 Paramedic. Drake welcome to our Departments EMS roster. And thank you for your dedication to our community!

05/12/2026

04/22/2026

This is what’s left behind at the station when a fire call comes in. Work boots from leaving their job. Lounge shoes from leaving their family at home. The people whose shoes are left behind aren’t just firefighters. They are husbands, wives, dads, moms, brothers, sisters, friends and neighbors. The people who drop everything when the pager goes off. The people who sacrifice their family time, birthdays, holidays, anniversaries, sleep and many other hours, to be there for complete strangers when they need us most. In the fire service, our number one goal is life safety. That includes our lives too. At the end of the call, these shoes need to be filled again. Help us help you by having and practicing your emergency evacuation plan, slowing down and paying attention when going through accidents scenes, testing your smoke alarms and following fire prevention tips. With your help, we can fill these shoes at the end of every call.

03/23/2026

Hampton Fire will be participating in the state wide tornado drill on Wednesday March 26th at 10am

A Statewide Tornado Drill is happening on Wednesday, March 26 at 10 a.m. Central Time (CT).

The National Weather Service will conduct the drill through NOAA All Hazard Weather Radio. Local officials may also sound their warning sirens.

02/17/2026

02/16/2026

OUTDATED POST

🔥EXTREME FIRE DANGER TUESDAY🔥
Most of the state will face an elevated fire danger Tuesday and a Red Flag Warning will be in effect. This means that very warm temperatures, strong SW winds 20-25, gusting up to 40+ mph and low humidity levels will sharply elevate the fire risk. In fact, any fire that does start will quickly spread. The area on the map shaded in purple is especially at risk. In fact, the NWS categorized this area as a “Particularly Dangerous Situation”.

02/16/2026

- Due to a fairly concerning combination of expected low relative humidity (10-25%) and west-southwest winds (gusting 30-45 MPH), our entire forecast area is under a Fire Weather Watch from 12-8 PM Tuesday.

- Assuming there are no major changes in the forecast over the next 24-36 hours, it is likely that most (perhaps all) of this Watch will eventually be "upgraded" to a Warning.

- USE EXTREME CAUTION IF ENGAGING IN ACTIVITIES THAT MIGHT SPARK A WILDFIRE !

01/06/2026

We honored and recognized four dedicated members last night at our meeting.

Firefighter of the year: Paul Mick. (EMT/Firefighter)Paul has been a dedicated member of HVFD for 25 years. And was awarded the firefighter of the year for his excelent commitment and dedication to our department. If you have ever needed HVFD Paul was almost certainly there to assist.

Jaime Parks (EMT/Firefighter) was recognized for exceptional response to EMS calls. Jaime has been a dedicated member of HVFD for 5 years and currently serves as our assistant EMS captain.

Trevor Goertzen (Firefighter) was recognized for exceptional fire/rescue response Trevor has been a dedicated member of HVFD for 4 years and has shown exceptional dedication to our department.

Matt Arndt was recognized for exceptional red eye response (12am-6am) these are the tough calls that get you out of bed usually not getting back to the station in time to go back to sleep before heading to go to our full time jobs. If you have ever needed HVFD in the middle of the night Matt was almost certainly there to assist. Matt has been a dedicated member of HVFD for 22 years and currently serves as our assistant Fire Chief.

HVFD has a very dedicated group of 21 volunteers that are here to serve you when needed. We thank our district for all of your support. And we look forward to continuing to be the best well trained volunteers we can be.