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District Personnel & Contact Information

 

The Colestin Rural Fire District can be reached:

  • By mail at: 1701 Colestin Road, Ashland, Oregon, 97520
  • By phone at: (541) 488-1768
  • By fax at: (541) 552-9617
  • By Email here at our website

 

Our Emergency Contact Number is:   (541) 488-1768

 

To access the Regional Emergency Response System:  Call 9-1-1

For major emergencies, CALL 9-1-1 FIRST.  (The 9-1-1 dispatch operator will relay all relevant information to us locally, as well as contacting any needed additional back-up resources.)

 


Fire Chief and Assistant Chiefs:

Steve AVGERIS

CRFD Fire Chief

Chuck BIEGERT

Assistant Fire Chief in the upper valley for Colestin

David LIPKING

Assistant Fire Chief in Hilt & south valley for Colestin

 

CRFD's Board of Directors:

Cheri AVGERIS

member, Treasurer

4-year term, re-elected May, 2009

Tod DAVIES

member, Grantwriter

4-year term, appointed May, 2007, to replace and complete the term begun May, 2007, of re-elected and subsequently resigned member Mary Jo Trainor.

Peggy MOORE

member, Chair & Sec'y

4-year term, re-elected May, 2009

Teri THOMAS

member, Asst. Treasurer

4-year term, re-elected May, 2007

Cindy WARZYN

member

4-year term, appointed September, 2009, to replace and complete the term begun May, 2007, of resigned member Carolyn Brafford.


BOARD ELECTIONS:  
Board elections for Special Districts, including volunteer fire districts, normally occur in spring (March or May) of odd-numbered years.

 

Adjunct Personnel:

Betsy BRADSHAW

Community Education & Outreach (publications & website management)

Lisa BUTTREY

Fire Plan Committee Chair & Coordinator, Budget Committee member, & Fuels Reduction Project Local Coordinator.

Karen DWYER

Budget Committee member

Sharron HALVORSON

Budget Committee Chair, & Fundraising Committee Chair

 


 

You can always contact us:


If you have any questions about the District, our policies, fire season restrictions, etc., beyond the information presented here on our website, or if you have any other concerns or inquiries.

If you are new to the Colestin - Mt. Ashland area and would like to receive our fire season announcements and other occasional community educational information, please email us (c/o webmaster@crfd.org) with your name and snail-mail address.

If you are not new but are not receiving our mailings, please let us know, and help us correct our mailing list information.

You are also always welcome to e-mail the webmaster with website feedback, problems, comments or inquiries.

 


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