The La Veta Fire Protection District proudly protects an area of 210 square miles. This department has served the Cuchara Valley in Huerfano County since 1949. Station #1 is in downtown La Veta.

Station #2 in Cuchara was built in the mid-'80s. Each station houses an ambulance, brush truck, engine, squad and tender.

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Like most other departments, many of the calls within our district are medical-related. But we also respond to a significant number of structure and wildland fire calls as well as mutual aid for neighboring fire departments in Walsenburg, Gardner and adjacent counties.

We provide basic life support emergency medical services in conjunction with our advanced life support transport provider, Walsenburg Ambulance.

Chief - David DeTray   (Contact)
Asst. Chief - Rich Snyder
Captain - Rich Stromberg

Lieutenants - Mark Brunner
                       Nancy Carroll 

EMS Director - Malea Schmidt  (Contact)

EMTs and support

Back row: Malea Schmidt, Rick Johnson, Mark Brunner and Ken Fulfs
Front row: Norma Mower, Laura Kellogg, Audrey Knowles, Heather Craft

Kim Brunner
Mark Brunner - EMT
Heather Craft - RN
Ken Fulfs
John Hudson - EMT
Rick Johnson
Laura Kellogg
Audrey Knowles - RN
Dave Mower - EMT
Norma Mower - PA, RN, EMT-I

Firefighters

Michelle Appel
Ryan Boggs
Mike Burns
Steve Candelaria
Heather Craft
Kim DeTray
Rick Dunn
Maurice Heikes
John Hudson
Rick Johnson
James Littlefield
Tom Melland
Richard Pezze
Sue Pezze
Malea Schmidt

 

The department responded to this dump truck that ended up in the ditch along Hwy 12 in Cuchara.

This truck was involved in a ahead-on collision with a semi on Hwy 160.

Assisting helitack on the Sheep Mountain Fire - June '06

Using a pumpkin and Hale float pump at S-211 Pump Ops class in Stonewall

Pleasant View Apartments fire - Oct. 21, 2006

Ambulance

Engine-11 1000GPM pump, capacity 500 gallons

Squad-11 Pierce Hawk 500GPM pump, capacity 500 gallons, foam

Tender-11 125 GPM pump, capacity 1500 gallons

Brush-11 Ford 100GPM pump, 150 gallons capacity

Station #2 Apparatus

Ambulance Chevy

Engine-21 1000 GPM pump, capacity 500 gallons

Squad-21 Chevy 500 GPM pump, capacity 250 gallons

Tender-21 150GPM pump, capacity 1000 gallons

Brush-21 125 GPM pump, capacity 200 gallons