Tuesday evening just after the start of the monthly board meeting the sttaion was dispatched at 19:27 to assist Sta 51 with a house fire 2900 Sudlersville Rd west of Kenton.  With members in the station Quint 45 w/5, D/C Davis was on the street within a couple minutes.  They were followed by Engine 45-3 w/5, Capt. Harrington and Rescue 45 w/7, FF Timmons.  Responding unit were advised the called reported their chimney on fire with possible extension into the attic.  Crews from Sta 45 arrived to find Command 51, Engine 51-3, and Tanker 51 on scene.  Quint 45 was requested to respond up the lane which was about 500' long to assist.  The remaining units staged on Sudlersville Rd. Crews worked to extinquish the fire in the chimney and checked the surrounding area's for fire.  Command placed the scene under control at 19:57 and returned the units staging.  The last Clayton unit was back in quarters at 20:42. Assistant Chief Morris had the 51 Command.  Clayton had 39 members respond on the call.  Units responding Command 51, Engines 51-3, 45-3, Rescue 51, 45, Quint 45, Telesquirt 51-7, Tanker 51, Amb 51.   

Remember the days when everyone had a real Christmas Tree?  Do you remember having to walk for miles just to have to find that perfect real tree? Well you can now have that real tree experience and not have to spend a whole afternoon walking amoung hundreds of trees and then having to cut the tree and carry it to your vehicle.  For the first time this year the Clayton Fire Company will be selling christmas trees and wreathes from their station on Railroad Ave.  Now you can have that real tree and not take a whole day doing so.  The trees are locally grown, freshly cut and ready to go home with you.  Wreathes are made but members of the company and given that special personnal touch.  The trees sales will start on Friday November 29 and will run everyday ending on December 23rd.  Week days hours will be from 5pm until 8-8:30pm, Saturdays hours will be 10am to 8pm and Sundays will be from 10am til 3pm.  Keep an eye out for special visits from Santa and Ms Claus with pictures for the kids.  There will also be special days when food will be sold.  So come out have that special Christmas tree and support your local fire company.  

******Note the fire company will deliver your tree for you for free if you live in the Clayton or Smyrna zip code or within 5 miles of Clayton.  Please see one of the members working the sales lot if you need help.*************     

Mark your calenders for the 6th Annual Toys for Tots Flag Football Game to be held on Saturday Dec. 7th.  Last years game was a hard fought battle between the Dover Fire Dept. and the firefighters for Clayton Fire Co.  This years game will sure to be another epic battle pitting the same two teams as last year with the addition of some police officers from the Dover Police Dept playing with the group from Dover while a few memebrs of the Clayton Police dept. play with the Clayton team.  The game will take place on Saturday December 7 with kickoff at 10am.  Gates will open at 9am.  Anyone wishing to attend this years game are asked to bring a new unwrapped toy or make a money donation at the door.  The Clayton fire Company will be selling food and drinks during the event.  So grab a toy and come out support a great cause and have fun watching your local hero's grind it out on the playing field.  A very big thank you goes out to the Smyrna School District and the administration at the Smyrna High School for allowing us the use of the football field and field house.  The Clayton Fire Company and Dover Fire Dept would like to also greatfully acknowledge this years game sponsors;  RWM Embroidery of Smyrna, Procter & Gamble of Dover,  Smyrna School Dist., Hudson, Jones, Jaywork & Fisher Law Firm, Smyrna Nutrician and the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation.     

With all the hustling and bustling of the holiday season alot of time people put safety on the back burner.  We at the Clayton Fire Co. would like to take a moment to remind the public the safety needs to be practiced all year round.  Our friends at the Delaware emergency Mangement Agency have put together some safety times for this holiday season.  Please take a moment to look over the items and remember safety is a 24 hour a day 365 day a year thing. 

Thoughts and prayers go out to the Little Creek Vol. Fire Co. and the Hand family on the passing of current President and Life Member Richard S. Hand Sr.  President Hand passed away on Sunday evening December 1st.  President Hand had served as President for the last 14 years.  Before that he served as Teasurer in 1975-1979. He joined the Little Creek Vol. Fire Co. in November 1969.  Arraingements will be announced once they have been completed.  The officers and members of the Clayton Fire Co. would like to send their sincere sympathy on the passing of President Hand and ask that you please keep the Hand family and the Little Creek Vol. Fire Co. family in your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time.   

The Smyrna/Clayton July 4th Assocation held its Annual Memorial Tree Lighting Program on Sunday evening at the firehouse.  Names of deceased or honored members of the community was read aloud followed by singing of Christmas Carols by the Sunnyside Elementary School.  The night was closed with the lighting of the memorial tree.    

The Smyrna/Clayton community offically celebrated the the beginning of the holiday season with the Annual Smyrn/Clayton July 4th Association's annual Christmas Parade.  The parade down Main St drew a nice crowd of people.  a little twisted was added to this years event when the Town had a complete power failure 45 minutes before the start of the parade.  The power was restored in about 2 hours.  The company participated with 2 engines, the rescue and quint with about 31 memebrs attending.   

BIG THANKS to our community and support on our 16th year of breakfast with Santa.....The members of Clayton Fire Company wish you a Safe and Healthy Holiday and a 2014 filled with Joy and Happiness.  The served over 250 guest at this years event.  There were 42 members that helped with this years event. 

The Clayton Fire Company will be holding it's 16th Annual Breakfast with Santa on Sunday December 1 from 8 - 11am at the Clayton firehouse.  The event will be a all you can eat buffet with bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs, french toast sticks, pancakes, OJ and Milk.  The price for the breakfast is $8.00 for Adults, $4.00 for kids 3-13, kids 2 and under are free.  Each child will have the opportunity to meet with Santa & Mrs Claus and have their photo taken and recieve a special treat.  Also this year we will again be having Santa's workshop where kids can shop and find the perfect gift for mom or dad, maybe a brother or sister, or that special pet.  Each gift is only $2 and includes free wrapping.  For questions or to make a reservation please call 302-632-3445.  Tickets go fast so reserve your tickets today for this great event that every kid will remember.    

***Members are reminded there is a signup sheet on rear board of the engine room to donate items to for the Breakfast with Santa. ********

 ******The fire company will also be collecting donated non persihable food items to help supprt the Smyrna/Clayton Ministerium's Community Food Pantry during this year Breakfast with Santa. There will be a donation box located in our lobby on December 1st.********************

The Clayton fire Company will be teaming up this year with the Clayton Intermiate School to collect canned and box goods for the Smyrna/Clayton Ministerium's Community Food Pantry during the holiday season.  During the remainder of November and up until December 10th members and the public can drop off their non perishable goods to either the Clayton Fire Co station on Railroad Ave or the Clayton Intermiate School at 86 Sorrento Dr in Clayton.  The company will also be collecting canned goods during this years breakfast with santa on December 1st.  All food collected will be donated to the Smyrna/Clayton Ministerium's Community Food Pantry which services those needed assistance from the Smyrna/Clayton and surrounding area.  Please help support this worthy cause by dropping off you non perishable items today.     

Thursday evening the company took the final step towards a long anticipated building project.  Ten years in the making the company approved the final design and plans for a 10,000 sq ft almost 2 million dollar addition to the existing station.  The new addition will give us added vehicle space, a training/meeting area, will make these area's and the building handicapped accessible, additional offices for both adminsitrative and fire line officers and a fitness area. The project will also provide some remoldeling to the existing building consisting of resurfacing of the current engine room floor, adding an elevator, and installing a sprinkler system throughout the building.  The new two story addition to the building will be added to the north side of the existing building.  Construction is expected to begin in about 2 weeks.  There will be an offical start of construction with a ground breaking on Sunday December 8, 2013 at 3pm at the firehouse, the public is welcome to attend.      

During the November company meeting the company welcomed 4 new members in to membership and saw 2 junior members raised to regular membership.  The new members accepted into membership are Junior Member Josh Evans, Regular Members Quinten Fleetwood, Frank Sacco III & Frank Sacco IV.  Both Sacco's are father and son and come to us from the Christiana Fire Company and bring years of experience after moving into the area.  Two Junior Members Josh Klingler and Joe Budd were accepted into full membership.  The company would like to welcome the new members into our membership and congratulate the 2 junior members for being raised to regular membership.  

Suring the regular company meeting Vice President Gene Shaner named Junior Member D.J. Correll as Member of the Month for October.  During the month of October D.J attended the following:  13 out of 16 alarms, 2 fund raising events, 3 misc events, 3 company drills, the company meeting for a total of 26 points.  D.J. has accumulated 244 points so far this year.  Congratulations to D.J. on his award. 

Capt. Alex Carrow has become the first member of the of the company to complete the nationally recognized  Blue Card Incident Command Course.  The course is a 80 hour combined online class followed by a 3 day fire simulations.  The class teaches company and command officers how to standardize local incident operations across their organization.  The Blue Card Incident Command Training and Certification Program is designed to manage local, NIMS Type 4 & 5 incidents which make up 99% of a departments incident activity.  Capt Carrow joins a handful of firefighters from Delaware that have taken this nationally acclaimed course since its release.      

The company held its last structural firefighting class of the year on Monday evening.  It was the last chance for those memebrs who had not met their required structural class in service training for the year to do so.  The members did evoluations on the residental and basement sides of the burn building as well as went over ground ladders, ventilation and Vent enter search techniques and went over stretching and re-racking the new 250' hose load.  The company had 38 members attend the class.  The officers would like to thank all those members who have taken the time get their required structual training for the coming year.