​The Choctaw Volunteer Fire Department is proud to partner with the Louisiana State Fire Marshal’s Office to present 'Operation Save A Life' -- a public service campaign designed to increase awareness and educate residents about the dangers of fire, its related hazards and how to prevent them.

'Operation Save-A-Life' was created to combat the rise in fire related injuries and deaths due to residential fires in the Great State of Louisiana. The goal of this statewide initiative is to reduce fire related injuries and deaths across the State of Louisiana by providing smoke alarms to vulnerable citizens and at risk communities.

If you or someone you know is in need of smoke alarm, please fill out the form below and a member of the department will contact you to set up an installation date.

​Currently, we have a limited supply available. The form will stop accepting submissions once we have received an amount of requests equal to the amount to smoke alarms we have available for distribution.

Sharing from the Lafourche Parish Government.
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Official press release available HERE.

​“After much consideration and consultation with local officials and krewes, we have decided to collectively cancel Mardi Gras parades parish-wide at this time,” announced Parish President Archie Chaisson.
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“The patience and support of our residents and business community when these difficult decisions have to be made does not go unnoticed. With the new year upon us, we must remain diligent in order to put this pandemic behind us as soon as possible to move forward, together,” said President Chaisson.

This is the time of the year when each of us should pause and reflect on all that has happened during the year that just passed. What was good? What was bad? What really did not have an impact upon us? To whom did we bid a fond farewell.

We need to understand how important it is that we learn to take the bitter with the better. We can neither change nor redo what has occurred in the year we are left. But it is possible for us to waste all of the experiences we have had if we fail to assess what has happened and use it as the basis for what we wish to accomplish in the year which lies ahead.

We must approach each new year with a clean slate, so to speak. Nothing is promised. Neither is anything guaranteed. We all have the opportunity to carve out a new road along which we can travel in the coming year.

We must then awake each day to the challenges which each of us will face at that time. Each day of the year will provide an opportunity to fill in the blanks in our plan for future success. Once this has been done, we can then begin to work to accomplish things on a day-by-day, case-by-case basis. 

The message is simple: we all can change. We can plan new beginnings. We as Americans are privileged to live in a country where new beginnings are something which is encouraged.  They are the very basis of our history as a nation.

Think about it. How many of our families came from foreign lands to build a fresh, new life here in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave?  Many of our forefathers set out to find a new land, just as many set out explore new opportunities and create new lives for themselves and their families. Many of them came past the Statue of Liberty and entered our great nation through the portals at Ellis Island. 

They went on to create the lives which have led through the decades to the nation we enjoy today. But what was it like for them? What were their hopes and what were their fears?

As we begin the new year of 2021, let us approach the new year with equal parts of joy, anxiety, and anticipation.  This year is laid out as a blank slate for each of us.  Nothing will appear on that chalk board which is not written by each and every one of us. Let us all choose well.

The true meaning of Christmas is giving, sharing, loving, and reaching out to those who have touched our lives. It is a time to count our blessings and be grateful for them.

The people of our community have given, shared, loved, and reached out to each other for much longer than many of us can remember. And, the year 2020 was no different.

​We all had needs, and we all came together to help each other meet those needs.

The men and women of the Choctaw Volunteer Fire Department would like to wish every one of you a Merry Christmas, and together, we look forward to a happy and prosperous new year.

At times, our own light goes out and is rekindled by the spark from another person.

Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

The men and women of the Choctaw Volunteer Fire Department are thankful for our community and all of our supporters, who light the flame in all of us to serve the people and the place we call home.

WHEREAS, Almighty God, in His infinite wisdom, has seen fit to summon to eternal rest the spirit and soul of Mr. Junior Hebert, an honorary firefighter, and

WHEREAS, his life was a record of service faithfully performed, having been an honorary firefighter with the Choctaw Volunteer Fire Department for many years and a dredge operator for SABA Dredging Company for fifty-two years. Mr. Hebert passed away on November 11, 2020.

THEREFORE, we express our sorrow at the loss sustained by the death of a friend and former firefighter and extend to the members of his family our deepest sympathy, and bid them to take consolation in the thought that his soul has been taken unto the bosom of our Merciful Savior; and this tribute of respect to the memory of Mr. Junior Hebert shall be made part of our official blog as evidence of our sympathy for his family and as a reminder of our attachment to him in life and memory of him in death.

​Choctaw Volunteer Fire Department

Today, we honor the men and women of the United States Armed Forces, who fought for and defended each of the ideals and principles that our great nation was founded upon.

Thank you, Veterans, for the sacrifices all of you have made and continue to make for all of us. #veteransday #1111