Fire Chief Welcome
Welcome to the Sheldon Community Fire & Rescue website. We hope to reach out to the community and provide safety tips, fire prevention techniques, and useful resources.
The department has been in service since 1955, and began with the merger of 2 departments.
The men and women that make up the department are your neighbors, friends, and relatives, and are actively involved in the community. We are striving to make this a better place to work, live and raise your family.
Facilities
Sheldon Community Fire and Rescue has a long-standing commitment and history of providing a rapid response time from one of our 4 stations.
Personnel
We are staffed by personnel that consider the community and residents their home and family.
Latest News
We strive to keep the public up-to-date on what’s going on in our community. See below for the latest news from Sheldon Community Fire & Rescue.
TODAY’S MAJOR STRUCTURE FIRE: With the original alarm going out at 11:18am, SCF&R crews had remained on scene. At 6:42pm an alert went out for a rekindle at the location—one of our firefighters sustained substantial but not life threatening injuries. The firefighter was transported to Memorial Hermann in the Texas Medical Center for treatment. Most all local media were on location and have coverage. Command was finally terminated at approximately 9:00pm.
MAJOR STRUCTURE FIRE: South Lake Villas apartments, Tidwell @ C.E. king Parkway. All residents safely out of building, first set of 13 units heavily and irreparably damaged. Special thanks to Channelview FD, Westfield FD, Crosby FD, Eastex FD and ESD No. 12 (formerly Cloverleaf FD) for their mutual aid. The scene remains under investigation.
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Via Harris Co. Sheriff’s Office: HCSO deputies initiated a pursuit of a motorcycle operator. The operator crashed out at Wallisville/Uvalde and was subsequently confirmed deceased at the scene. All information is preliminary at this time. This is not in the Sheldon area boundaries, however heavy traffic alert.
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Paul V. Reed Training Burn Building
Here is the rendering for our new Paul V. Reed Training Burn Building. Construction of this Training facility has begun and we plan on it being finished sometime in June. This training tower will be the centerpiece of our new training field. The new field is located right behind the new location of Station 2, 17432 Beaumont Hwy.
Midtown Mayhem
This past weekend we sent our Full-Time firefighters to a Highrise/Midrise conference in downtown Houston hosted Midtown Mayhem. They spent 3 full days learning the ends and outs of these types of fires. From classroom to hands on training. Thank you Midtown Mayhem for the incredible training and preparing our firefighters for these types of emergencies.
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