Southern Manatee Fire Rescue Holds 2nd Annual Awards Banquet
On Saturday, December 16, 2017 at 1100 hours, the Southern Manatee Fire Rescue District held their annual Awards Ceremony/Banquet. The food was provided by Sonny’s BBQ and once again it was free to us because of FF/EMT Chuck Moonen Haz-mat Chili winning again 1st Place and People Choice Awards for the 2017 Chili Cook-off – Thank you again FF/EMT Chuck Moonen. Southern Manatee Fire Rescue has won “People’s Choice” three (3) years in a row.
Southern Manatee Fire Rescue Holds 1st Annual 5K Walk/Run
On November 3rd, 4th and 5th, 2017 the Southern Manatee Fire Rescue District held our 1st annual 5K Walk/Run at Benderson Park. The...
Operation – Inshore Slam
For the past year, Captain Mike Bloski worked on developing a multi-agency exercise to test Manatee County’s response to a multi-casualty terrorism...
Southern Manatee Fire Rescue Promotional Ceremony
On Thursday, September 14, 2017, the Southern Manatee Fire Rescue District conducted a badge pinning promotional ceremony for Deputy Chief Rick Blanco. Chief Blanco was promoted from Battalion Chief...
Southern Manatee Fire Rescue District Wins “People’s Choice” Award and “1st Place Award” in the 18th Annual Morton’s Market Firehouse Chili Cook-off
On Sunday, October 8, 2017 the Southern Manatee Fire Rescue District competed in the 18th Annual Morton’s Firehouse Chili Cook-off and once again won the “People’s Choice” Award and “1st Place Award”. Firefighter/EMT Chuck Moonen famous “Haz-mat Chili” recipe once again was a BIG hit at Morton’s Market Firehouse Chili Cook-off not only with the judges but also with thousands of citizens that attended 4 hour event.