Everything we do is volunteer-run and focused on DeBary. Here are the six ways we serve our community — and how you can request or support each one.
Firefighter rehab with Support 33
When requested by the Chief or officer-in-charge, Support 33 responds to fires and long-duration emergencies with water, sports drinks, energy snacks, ice, shade, fans, portable air conditioning, generators and a place to rest — helping prevent heat injury and dehydration among firefighters, deputies and medics.
Who requests it: incident commanders. How you can help: sponsor rehab supplies or donate water and ice.
Comfort for displaced families
A house fire can force people out with nothing but what they are wearing. Support 33 carries an assortment of clothing and comfort items, and our volunteers provide a warm (or cool) place to sit while families wait for help from the Red Cross and their insurers.
Who requests it: incident commanders. How you can help: contact us before donating clothing so we can store what’s needed.
Fire-safety presentations
Our volunteers share practical, age-appropriate safety lessons with schools, scouts, HOAs, churches, senior communities and businesses: escape planning, smoke and CO alarms, kitchen safety, lithium-ion battery charging, hurricane-season generator safety and brush-fire readiness.
Cost: free (donations welcome). Lead time: please request at least three weeks ahead.
Association Hall use
DeBary’s first firehouse (1955) at 10 Colomba Road is available to community groups for one-time or recurring meetings — with a TV monitor, projector and screen, whiteboard, board table and seminar seating. We ask only for a donation.
Pancake breakfasts, parades & open houses
Our famous Pancake Breakfasts, the DeBary Christmas Parade, “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” rides and fire-station open houses bring neighbors and firefighters together — and raise money for equipment.
Challenge Coins & donations
Our 70th-anniversary Challenge Coin ($20, 2-inch, in a capsule) and online donation options let anyone support DeBary’s firefighters — locally or from across the country.