We take great pride in our membership, especially those that served or continue to serve this great country of ours. We have many members that currently serve on active duty or are former or retired members of the armed forces.
We dedicate this section to our members currently deployed. We ask for your prayers and continued support for them and their families.
Station donations
We thank the following businesses and organizations for their generous donations that support the mission of Half Moon Volunteer Fire Department:
Q: Why do you block traffic on vehicle accidents, even if the cars involved would not?
The main reason we park our trucks in the middle of the roadway is to protect the emergency responders from vehicle traffic while working at the accident scene. Unfortunately, many responders are killed or injured each year due to inattentive drivers "rubber-necking" as they pass the accident. The driver never sees the emergency responder in the road directing traffic because he/she was more interested in the vehicles involved. We have had many instances where drivers have caused additional accidents because of not being attentive. For this reason, it is very important for you, the driver, to watch out for pedestrians at an accident scene; slow your vehicle, roll down your window (if weather permits) and turn off any distractions (cell phones, stereos, etc). Additionally, if a firefighter, EMS worker or any other emergency responder directs you to slow down, follow their direction. In North Carolina, it is a crime to disobey a traffic control officer. Highway Patrol Officers and Sheriff's Deputies are normally on-scene of these accidents and vehicles failing to slow or disobeying directions have been issued citations.
Q: Why do fire trucks turn off their lights and sirens when driving?
From time to time, you may see a fire truck driving with its lights and sirens running and suddenly shut them off. There are two main reasons we do this;
1. Our department was canceled by another department we were called to assist. At times, we will go en-route to a neighboring district and they no longer need our help. We may also do this if one of our units is already on the scene and the situation does not require more trucks or the situation is no longer an emergency.
2. Another instance is where we may cause panic or unsafe acts with the public by running our lights and siren. An example of this may be very bad weather, icy roads or very heavy traffic on the roadway. We do not want to create more emergencies while responding to one.
Note: State law requires that all drivers pull to the far right side of the roadway (as possible) and stop to oncoming emergency vehicles.
