The members of South Toe Volunteer Fire & Rescue request your support. Your contribution is vital toward helping us meet the costs essential to our effectiveness and your safety. South Toe Volunteer Fire & Rescue continues to strive to provide a higher level of service to the South Toe Fire District. Your fire department is dedicated to providing a community oriented, progressive and professional service to all citizens within South Toe Township. South Toe Volunteer Fire & Rescue is an organization working entirely on a volunteer basis, providing the South Toe Township with Fire & Emergency Medical Services since 1972. We rely on your generous tax-deductible donation to continue our high level of service...

State Officials Award District a 6 Rating

RALEIGH – North Carolina Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin announced today that the South Toe Fire District completed its routine inspection and received a 6 rating, effective Saturday, May 1, 2010. The inspection, conducted by officials with the Department of Insurance Office of State Fire Marshal (OSFM), is required on a regular basis as part of the North Carolina Response Rating System (NCRRS). Among other things, the routine inspections look for proper staffing levels, sufficient equipment, proper maintenance of equipment, communications capabilities and availability of a water source....

South Toe Fire and Rescue is the first Fire Department in Yancey County to request and obtain a lower insurance rating district wide. If you live within 5 road miles of either Station # 1 near Celo or Station # 2 in Busick (which is 98% of the South Toe Township) your insurance premiums will see a reduction as of May 1, 2010 after a coveted district wide class 6 rating was achieved....

South Toe Volunteer Fire & Rescue was founded in 1972, the first fire department on South Toe River. In 1975 voters approved tax-base support for the Department, and the first fire engine was purchased. By 1976 the department had 18 volunteers, and the first station was built in Celo with bays for three vehicles. A two-story additional with a fourth bay was constructed in 2000....