08/10/2026
🚑 EVOC Weekend at Fieldale-Collinsville! 🚒
This weekend was all about Emergency Vehicle Operator Course (EVOC) training! We hosted EVOC right here at the squad, with 10 students completing the course!
This was an EVOC Class 1, 2 & 3 course, training students to safely operate emergency vehicles across all three weight classes — Class 1 under 10,000 lbs., Class 2 from 10,001–26,000 lbs., and Class 3 over 26,000 lbs. That means experience behind the wheel of everything from smaller emergency vehicles to ambulances and full-size fire apparatus.
Among this weekend’s class were two of our own Fieldale-Collinsville Rescue Squad members taking EVOC for the first time — and we’re proud to say they both passed! 🎉 That means two more of our members are taking the next step toward being able to get an ambulance on the road and serve our community.
After the classroom portion, it was time to hit the cone course! Everyone did a great job working through the different driving and maneuvering stations, getting experience with different types and sizes of emergency vehicles, and — most importantly — doing it safely.
And if you’ve ever taken EVOC, you already know the soundtrack to the weekend…
📣 Backing up? AIR HORN.
📣 Backing up again? AIR HORN.
📣 Need to back up three inches because that cone definitely wasn’t there a second ago? AIR HORN. 😂
A BIG thank you to the agencies that helped make the weekend possible!
🚑 Bassett Rescue Squad for bringing an ambulance for students to use during testing.
🚒 Fieldale Volunteer Fire Company for bringing a fire truck for testing.
🚒Henry County Department of Public Safety for providing another fire truck, as well as the parking lot and cones for our driving course.
Having different apparatus available gives students the opportunity to experience how differently these vehicles handle, and we greatly appreciate everyone who helped us make that possible.
It was a great weekend of training, learning, and building safer emergency vehicle operators. A special congratulations to our two FC Rescue members who completed their first EVOC and passed! 👏🚑🚒