Three counties.
One volunteer crew.
Faubush Tri-Co Volunteer Fire Dept. sits at 5600 Hwy 196 in Nancy, out where southwest Pulaski County runs up against the Wayne and Russell lines. Nobody on the roster is paid. The "Tri-Co" in the name is not branding, it is the map.
- Station
- 5600 Hwy 196
Nancy, KY 42544 - Chief
- Junior Fortenberry
- Roster type
- 100% volunteer
- County lines
- Pulaski
Wayne
Russell
The ground
Three Counties, One Crew
Most fire departments answer to one county line. This one sits close enough to three that the name had to say so. Pick a county to see what that costs a volunteer crew.
One crew, three lines
The station sits in southwest Pulaski County, close enough to the Wayne and Russell lines that the department was named for all three. One roster, one set of trucks, and whichever neighbors are free that hour.
This is a stylized concept map, drawn to show relative position and the tri-county idea. It is not a surveyed boundary and it is not a fire district map. For the district that actually covers your address, ask the department.
The crew
The crew is the whole department
There is no shift coming in behind these people. When the pager goes off at 3 a.m. on a road two counties from where you live, somebody has to already have said yes. That is the entire staffing model, and it is why this section sits above everything else on the page.
Start with a question, not a commitment
Message the department on Facebook or email Chief Fortenberry and ask what joining looks like right now. Nobody is signing anything on the first conversation.
You do not have to be the person going inside
A rural department this size runs on more than nozzle work. Pump operation, traffic control, water supply, radio, gear checks, fundraising and paperwork are all jobs, and every one of them frees up somebody who is trained for the interior.
Daytime is where rural departments hurt
Volunteers work. If you are home, retired, farm, or work from the Faubush and Nancy area during business hours, you are worth more to this crew than you probably think.
Ask about the current requirements directly
Training hours, age and residency rules change, and they are set by the department and the state, not by this page. Ask the chief what applies today rather than trusting a website.
The budget
Volunteer describes the people, not the bill
Nobody on this roster draws a check. The equipment still does. Turnout gear wears out on a clock, air packs get tested and replaced, tires and pumps and fuel do not care that the crew is unpaid, and a tanker that hauls water to addresses with no hydrant burns diesel every single call.
There is no online donation portal to point you at, and this page will not invent one. If you want to help, ask the department directly what it needs this year. That answer changes, and they are the only ones who have it.
- Money is the flexible kind of help. It goes wherever the shortest gap is that month.
- Show up to whatever they put on. A rural department's fundraisers are a real line in the budget, not a social event.
- Skills count as a donation. Diesel mechanics, welders, accountants, grant writers and people who can drive a truck all lower a real cost.
- Share the join post, not just the fire photos. The staffing problem is upstream of every other problem here.
The burn line
Before you strike a match out here
Rural Kentucky burns brush. The state sets two hazard seasons every year, and during them the law puts a clock and a distance on it.
Kentucky forest fire hazard seasons
- Spring season
- Feb. 15 to April 30
- Fall season
- Oct. 1 to Dec. 15
During those seasons, state law makes it illegal to burn anything within 150 feet of woodland or brushland between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. Local ordinances and county burn bans can be stricter, and a burn ban overrides the schedule entirely.
Source: KRS 149.400, summarized by the Kentucky Division of Forestry, Outdoor Burning Laws. Confirm current restrictions locally before you light anything.
Put your 911 address where a truck can read it
Reflective numbers at the road, not just on the house. On a dark county road with no streetlight, a visible number is the difference between a crew finding you and a crew driving past your driveway.
A long driveway has to hold a fire truck
Overhanging limbs, soft ground and a turnaround too tight for an engine are all real problems out here, and they get discovered at the worst possible moment.
Know whether you have a hydrant, because the crew does
Much of this area is drafted or tankered water. If your address has no hydrant, water is arriving by truck, which is one more reason the roster and the fleet both matter.
Reach the department
Real channels only
For an emergency, call 911. Everything below is for everything else.
Station
5600 Hwy 196
Nancy, KY 42544
The department's own page, and its most active public channel.
facebook.com/FaubushVFD
Chief Junior Fortenberry
There is deliberately no contact form on this page. This is a design concept, not a live system, and a form that quietly went nowhere would be worse than no form at all. Every link above goes to a real, published channel.