Benjamin Fire Department

10/10/2026

We have a fire danger statement from TDEM for October 10th. We recommend extra precautions when working with any ignition sources during this time.

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1115 PM CDT Fri Oct 9 2026
..ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS EXPECTED ON SATURDAY...

* AFFECTED AREA...Portions of western Oklahoma and western-north
Texas.

* WINDS...South to southwest at 10-15 mph, with gusts up to 25
mph.

* RELATIVE HUMIDITY...As low as 18 to 22 percent in the afternoon.

* TEMPERATURES...Highs of 89 to 95 degrees.

* TIMING...2 PM to 7 PM Saturday.

* SEVERITY...

FUELS (ERC)...70th to 89th percentile...4 (out of 5).

WEATHER...Elevated...1 (out of 5).

FIRE ENVIRONMENT...5 (out of 10).

Outdoor burning and activities that cause open sparks or flames
are discouraged. Fire and emergency officials should be aware that
weather conditions will be favorable for the development of grass fires.

10/10/2026

We had a great time teaching fire prevention. Great group of kids. Also, great teachers! Thank you for having us.

10/06/2026

These fuel prices have been brutal on us these past few months. So, we will be doing a fill the boot drive to raise funds. You can find us at Ranchland in Benjamin on Friday from 1-8 ish. You can also donate online through our website. Www.benjaminvfd.com. Or through Venmo. https://venmo.com/u/benjaminvfd. Thank you.

Dedicated to protecting lives and property 24/7

09/27/2026

Here some more pictures from the Grover Bend fire.

09/27/2026

Forest service is still working on a fire North West of Benjamin that started roughly 5:00 pm yesterday from lightning. They brought a dozer strike team last night and today they called in engine strike team consisting of 4 type 5 engines and 1 type 3.
We had a lot of help getting forward progression stopped last night. Last of us came in at 5:30 am. We would like to say thank you to, Knox County Sheriff’s Office “they provided incident command and public information liaisons”, Knox City Volunteer Fire Department “provided a type 5 engine with two people”, Texas Game Wardens “helped find our way to the fire”, Crowell Volunteer Fire Department “provided type 4 engine with two people and 1 pov supervisor”, Rochester TX Volunteer Fire Department “they provided 2 type 5 engines with 4 people”, and Knox County road crew “they provided 2 maintainers with 2 operators”.
We had 1 type 5 engine, 2 type 6 engines, 1 type 4 engine, 1 support S2 tender, and 1 tactical type 1 tender. We had a showing of 14 fire fighters. The other unsung heroes are all the members of our community that support us financially. We could not do this without your help. To all the people I tagged if I missed something please message me.
Ps thank you KNOX COUNTY Texas 9-1-1 ALERTS (TX) dispatchers!!!

08/28/2026

This is coming up pretty quickly! Even if you are not able to finish the online in time, we still recommend the field day. It is a great learning experience.
Knox City Volunteer Fire Department
Haskell Volunteer Fire Department
Rochester TX Volunteer Fire Department
Rule Volunteer Fire Department
Crowell Volunteer Fire Department
Munday Volunteer Fire Department

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08/12/2026

Attention all local departments!!!
If you are interested in getting your wildland firefighter type II, you can join us for our field day on September 6th, 2026. It starts at 9:00 and can run until 1700. If you are interested you start with signing up on this website.
https://www.wildlandfirelearningportal.net/login/index.php.
Take these classes in this order: S-190, L-180, and then the online portion of S-130. You will also have to have ICS 100, 700, and 800. These can be taken on the FEMA Website.
https://training.fema.gov/programs/independent-study/courseoverview.aspx?code=IS-100.c&lang=en
If all of this is agreeable for you please let us know that you are interested. You can e-mail us at [email protected] or message us on our page.

Knox City Volunteer Fire Department
Knox County Sheriff’s Office
Munday Volunteer Fire Department
Crowell Volunteer Fire Department
Electra Fire Department
Haskell Volunteer Fire Department

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08/01/2026

Well we just had a crazy evening with this little storm that blew through!!!
We had a request for traffic control at a car wreck east of Vera. Could not make it because shortly after we had a call to help King county with a possible lightning fire. About 3 minutes after the first unit arrived on that fire, Knox city fire department got paged to go to Gilliland in our district for another possible lightning fire. Mind you this was shortly after Knox city had just got back from a fire in Haskell county. We were able to reroute resources to go help with that. Thankfully Game Warden Larry Hampel went out to spot it for the responding Departments. They did a thorough search and could not find anything. King county fire department arrived on their scene and I was able to head back. So all units made it back to their respective stations safe and sound. I personally could not see them but I know the knox county sheriffs office was running around helping where they were needed most!
So huge shout out to Knox City Volunteer Fire Department, Knox County Sheriff’s Office , and the game wardens office.