FACT: If it weren't for volunteers, three-fourths of the United States would be without adequate fire and emergency medical protection.

Membership Information

The Gumbranch Volunteer Fire Department welcomes applications for membership. There are several categories of membership available to persons interested in serving our community. For additional information, contact the department at (912) 368-8181.

Firefighter: Members are trained to respond to all fire related calls and are eligible to ride all fire apparatus operated by the Department.

First Responder: Members are trained to handle calls for rapid response emergency care, and are eligible to ride on the medic units of the Department.

Support/Administrative: For those members of the community who do not wish, or may not be physically able, to participate in responding to emergency calls, but who nevertheless wish to aid the department in a support or an administrative capacity. These members may be eligible to serve on the Board of Directors, assist in bookkeeping, secretarial work, fundraising, public safety education and fire prevention.

You can download a copy of the Department application here. (This download requires Adobe Acrobat Reader. Get a copy here.)

If you live in the green or yellow sections of the map below, you are eligible to join our department. The reason we limit our recruitment area is so that we are not taking valuable resources from other department areas, as well as the time it takes to respond to our station. Members who joined the department, before these limits were enacted, are grandfathered in, as are members who moved outside these areas after joining and that decide to stay with the department.