Early Thursday morning, Chief John Edwards and Assistant Chief Joe Edwards departed East Brandywine for their nephew's fire academy graduation.

Dane Edwards recently completed the Horry County, SC fire academy and was assigned to Station 7. Congratulations to Dane and good luck at your new station.

Additionally both Chiefs would like to thank Horry County Chief Fred Crosby and his entire leadership team for their hospitality and commitment to excellence. According to Chief Edwards the Graduation and Awards Ceremony was one of the nicest graduations he had attended.

While the chiefs were on vacation, the EBFC volunteers experienced a higher than normal call volume. The volunteers responded to:

6 EMS calls
1 CO Alarm
1 Building Fire
1 Forcible Entry
2 Chimney Fires
2 Automobile accidents, 1 with Entrapment
2 Automatic Fire Alarms
1 Fire Police Assist