2005 Call Stats
	Fire	EMS
Jan	22	31
Feb	22	24
Mar	30	24
Apr	18	21
May	30	33
Jun	26	25
Jul	31	44
Aug	31	35
Sep	31	34
Oct	35	26
Nov	27	20
Dec	28	35
Total	334	354
Stats Updated 01/01/2006

Walls FD Goes Part-Time Paid

Walls Fire Department is now protecting the Town of Walls on a Part-Time Paid basis. Firefighters are staffing one engine Monday through Friday, 7a-5p. Volunteers will continue staffing an engine at night.

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Walls Fire Department History

For over 30 years, the Walls Fire Department has served the citizens of Desoto County with pride and integrity. In 1973, a group of residents of the Twin Lake Neighborhood and Walls community met in the basement of the Minor Memorial Methodist Church to form and charter the Walls Volunteer Fire Department.

The first fire truck was a Ford purchased from Delta Ford with a homemade tank and pump on it. The tank held approxiamtely 1,000 gallons of water. The second truck was a 1956 Pirsch pumper purchased from A.O. Smith in Memphis. This truck was refurbished and was a pupmer formerly used by the Kenosha, Wisconsin Fire Department. The next truck was an Army Surplus 6 x 6 with a homemade pump and tank. In the early 1980s, a Pirsch pupmer on Ford Chasis was purchased. In 1990, an E-One 2,500 gallon Pupmer/Tanker was purchased and it is still in service today. In 1993, a Freightliner Custom Cab pumper was purchased and later sold to make way for today's front-line pumper, a 2004 Pierce Arrow.

The coverage area for the newly formed Walls Fire Department was bordered on the North by the Tennessee State Line, bordered on the South by the Tunica County Line, bordered on the West by the Mississippi River, and bordered on the East by Horn Lake Road.

In February, 1975, the Desoto Development Corp., led by Art Huggins, Bob Grey, and Bon Jones, donated an acre of land on Highway 301 just south of Nail Road. This land became the site of the first Walls Fire Station. Members of the Department built the station, which consisted of two bays. During the first two years of the Walls Fire Department, the fire truck was parked in the Twin Lakes Neighborhood near a group of homes where firemen lived. This new fire station provided protection for the equipment from weather and other elements. Eventually, it was needed to expand the station, so three more bays were added to the station by Universal Steel and financed by FHA. In 1984, J.F. Conger donated an acre of land next to the first station, and a second 3-bay building was built to house additional apparatus and equipment. In 2005, the department purchased a building in the Town of Walls at  6085 Highway 161 .

In the late 1980s, the Walls Fire Department created the Walls Fire Protection District. Every houseold within its district paid $3.00 per month dues to the Northwest Mississippi Utility District who in turn, gave that money to the Department for its operating budget. The boundries of this district were the same as the original response area with the exception of the southern boundry. The southern boundry was now Nesbit Road. The dues monies from the Utility District was and still is where a majority of the Department's operating monies come from.

In the beginnings of the Department, dispatching was done by telephone. If a citizen wanted to report a fire, they would call a number which would ring the telephones of members' homes. In the early 80s, Horn Lake Police Department started dispatching for the Walls Fire Department and the firefighters carried pagers. In the late 90s, the Desoto County Sheriff's Office assumed dispatching duties for the volunteer fire departments in the county.