Cape Carancahua isn’t a large community, and maybe because of that, it is a tight-knit one. Craig Brooks, the chief of the Carancahua Volunteer Fire Department, said in a community that size, things couldn’t run smoothly without volunteers.
“There’s just so much that needs to be done,” he said “and in a county that doesn’t have a lot of population and not a lot of heavy industry, it’s hard to get a lot of that done.”
From hosting nights out in the community, to responding to wrecks and providing assistance to surrounding departments, to being the first ones on scene when someone within the Carancahua community needs medical assistance, the Carancahua Volunteer Fire Department is a small, but important one. The department has even been called out to help rescue wildlife.
“It’s 17 miles to everywhere,” he said, “17 miles to a restaurant, 17 miles to a grocery store, in every direction”
