The one and only fire district in St. Clair County is the Davis Lake Fire District. Registered voters in that district went to the polls June 5 and overwhelmingly agreed to become a fire district. Others throughout the county are volunteer fire departments or city fire departments. There were 360 who voted on the fire district, of which 260 voted in favor (72 percent) and 100 who voted against it (28 percent). Jimmy Briggs has been fire chief since March 1, 2018, but has been a member of Davis Lake for the past five years.