Callaway County’s rural fire protection districts celebrated their 40th anniversary Saturday morning.
The celebration took place at Callaway Electric Cooperative with the county’s six rural fire protection districts in attendance. The districts included North Callaway, South Callaway, Central, Millersburg, Holts Summit and New Bloomfield.
“Usually there’s two to three departments working on a fire; we all work together very well. It used to be if there was a fire in someone else’s district, we probably wouldn’t even know about it,” said Greg Luebbert, chief of the Central Fire Protection District.
At the celebration, there were trucks from each department on display, a children’s obstacle course where they could earn the title “junior firefighter,” extrication demonstrations and teaching people how to use fire extinguishers.