History

The community of Morgan Mill has benefited from the services provided by the Morgan Mill Vol. First Responders, so why should other communities be left without these same privileges if we can help them? We are in the "business" of helping people and couldn't turn down the oppurtunity to help more local citizens.

There have been many meetings held in the past 3 years to try and find a way to provide first responders in other communities like Morgan Mill. The local ambulance services and the Morgan Mill First Responders have held these meetings in the hope that we could help other communities start their own First Responder groups. A “county-wide” meeting was held in Sept. 2008 and all of the Fire Departments, Ambulance services, and interested citizens met and discussed how we can help these other communities and provide first responders to the areas of Erath County that don’t have them. During this meeting, the solution that kept being suggested by everybody present was for the Morgan Mill First Responders and the SouthPoint First Responders to grow and help provide these services to the other rural areas. There are citizens living in these communities that want to volunteer and be first responders, they just do not have a way to make this happen since there are no first responder groups in these communities and that is where we could help. It takes quite a few people to start a first responder group and none of these communities have that many volunteers. We allowed these citizens to be first responders through our organization and this will allow them to help their neighbors in need.

We needed to change our name to better fit what we were doing instead of having a “Morgan Mill” group with first responders in another community such as Bluff Dale or Lingleville. By changing our name we could have first responders living in any of the communities and they can respond to emergencies that are in that area. This also puts many more first responders throughout the “County” who can respond to any type of major incidents and it means better training, grant funding, equipment and support for the group. A bigger first responder group means we can hopefully gain more support from the citizens, and it helps to qualify us for more state/federal funding.
SouthPoint First Responders have also expanded and tripled their response area to cover the south and southwest part of Erath County. Together both groups are providing first responders to all of the areas outside of the Stephenville City Limits and Dublin City Limits.

We are still the same people that would have responded to your emergency in the past as Morgan Mill First Responders, we are just a bigger group with a different name. We have grown to be a group that has been recognized throughout the State for excellent service and professionalism, and we have been able to do this because of the support from the local citizens. We will continue to need everybody’s support in the future. We all started this group to help the sick and injured and now it’s time to help other communities in need, we will never forget that we have gone this far because of the support from the citizens of Morgan Mill !!

We are still an ALL VOLUNTEER group that holds a non-profit 501(c)(3) status and all donations are tax deductible. Our volunteers spent over 1,100 hours in 2008 attending trainings, meetings, events and responding to emergencies. Please show your appreciation to our volunteers by continuing to support them.