At the annual Highlands Fire and Rescue Award Banquet held Jan. 22 at OEI’s Spring House, the volunteer force with significant others in attendance was recognized by their own and by Highlands Mayor Pat Taylor. […]
Crews began installing trusses last month at the new Highlands Fire & Rescue Station located across the street from the post office. Trusses are webbed structures used to support the weight of a building’s roof. […]
Firetrucks were lined up in front of the Highlands Fire & Rescue station, families took rides on a firetruck, and firefighters were cooking up hot dogs for visitors at HFR’s annual Open House on Saturday. […]
A new home for the Fire & Rescue Department has been in the works for about three years, and now that construction is underway people have lots of questions. The foremost question is “Why does […]
Construction of the new Highlands Fire & Rescue station at the corner of Oak and Main streets was set back 2-3 weeks because wet soil wasn’t passing compaction tests, said Highlands Town Manager Josh Ward. […]
Though the annual Awards Banquet has been postponed due to COVID restrictions, the annual Fireman of the Year was still selected by Highlands Fire & Rescue volunteers. This year the department selected Roger Lee Wilson, […]
It’s taken a few years to orchestrate but work will begin on the new Fire & Rescue Dept. to be located on the old deVille property on US 64 west in the next couple of […]
Santa delighted the small number of people who attended the annual Christmas Tree Lighting in Highlands on Nov. 28 at Kelsey-Hutchinson Founders Park. Presented by the Highlands Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Center and recently […]
Highlands Fire & Rescue received a call on Tuesday shortly after 5:30 p.m. reporting two climbers possibly trapped on a rope on the east face of Whiteside Mountain. Pictured below is a welfare check for […]
Highlands Fire & Rescue Assistant Chief Robbie Forrester hit the road on Wednesday morning to travel 12 hours to Lake Charles, Louisiana to bring supplies to people trying to recover from Hurricane Laura. In this […]
Every year the Highlands Fire & Rescue Department enjoys a little down time to recognize its own for the year-long work it does and to announce the Firefighter of the Year. The Firefighter of the […]
At the Town Board’s November meeting last week, Highlands Board of Commissioners were given a brief breakdown of the new Highlands Fire & Rescue facility planned across from the Highlands Post Office at 149 Franklin […]
Jane Woodruff has done it again. Thanks to her years of philanthropic work Highlands has a civic building at the Rec Park, a hospital, and a post office. Now Highlands is about to get a […]
At recent budget discussions for the Fiscal Year 2019-2020 budget both the Highlands Fire and Rescue and the Sky Valley-Scaly Mountain Fire and Rescue departments have come before the Macon County Board of Commissioners requesting […]
Crews from Glenville-Cashiers Rescue Squad and Highlands Fire & Rescue combed areas throughout Macon and Jackson counties for a possible downed aircraft after receiving reports of a missing plane on Thursday evening. Details were scarce […]