The station is located at 5026 Davis Ford Road in Woodbridge; just around the corner from the Government Center on Prince William Parkway. We welcome the public to join us for station tours, the home fire safety obstacle course, games and more.

Officials said the new, modern facility is much larger than the old station that was adjacent to woods behind Horry Georgetown Technical College’s Conway campus. They said they can now serve S.C. 544 area residents much faster.

“It’s really about quicker response times, [particularly] near the university,” said HCFR spokesman Capt. Mark Nugent. “Obviously, we’re right in the middle of a college campus.”

Fordville's volunteer fire department has 18 members, most of them farmers. Adam Jallo, who grow up on a local farm and now works at the Fordville Co-op Marketing Association grain elevator, was among those attending the Oct. 17 training.

"We know grain bins are dangerous. And we want to be ready, though we hope we never have to use this (equipment or training)," said Jallo, who, as part of the training, stood thigh-deep in grain. The training was conducted in a grain truck, not a bin.