Madison County Association of Volunteer Fire Departments Inc.

About the Book

This book contains a historical account of the Madison County Association of Volunteer Fire Departments Inc. of Madison County, Alabama. It documents the beginning, growth, consolidation, and implementation of Alabama’s premier countywide Association of rural volunteer fire departments that provide fire protection and emergency medical response to rural citizens. This account also describes how the Association, through the years, related to the majority will of its member fire departments and conducted business with other organizations, agencies, and institutions as regards to identifying, planning, and implementing (in a spirit of cooperation) critical elements of the emergency fire and medical response system now in place in rural Madison County.

About the Author

Willis Speed Kastorff, in 1963, moved his family to the rural Bobo community in Madison County, Alabama, where he actively participated in the planning, construction, and implementation of the emergency fire and medical response system now in place in rural Madison County. He became involved in this effort in 1973 when he cofounded the Bobo Volunteer Fire Department. He is a former president of the Madison County Association of Volunteer Fire Departments Inc. and was appointed by the Madison County Commission as the first rural Madison County Fire Marshal. He is a Korean War veteran (1950–1953) and a 1956 graduate of the Southern Polytechnic State University located in Marietta, Georgia. He is a retiree of the Boeing Company (1995) where he was employed as a principal engineer. He applied these skills to NASA programs conducted at the Marshal Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, beginning in 1963 with the Saturn/Apollo Program and ending with the International Space Station Program.