"I didn't think I was going to be in volunteer firefighter training classes at the ripe old age of 62," Thornton joked on Thursday.įorming a Jasper Highlands volunteer fire department was always in the community's development plan, but it was accelerated last fall after a car owned by a Jasper Highlands resident caught fire and burned, and no local fire agency showed up to help. Thornton and other Jasper Highlands officials on Thursday officially unveiled the new department, equipped with three used trucks - including one military-grade, University of Tennessee orange-and-white rig - and manned by 14 resident-volunteers, and Thornton himself. And in the water tank and residential lines serving the community.Īnd now, in the volunteer fire department formed to serve the mountaintop development. These are John "Thunder" Thornton's nickels - in the $6 million mountain road leading up to the 9,000-acre Jasper Highlands residential development on top of Jasper Mountain. Second place will win $7,500 and third place will win $2,500.› Winners will be invited to a picnic on Saturday, April 2, at Pat’s Summit pavilion at Jasper Highlands.
› Jasper Highlands unveiled its new volunteer fire department on Thursday, and also announced a competition open to elementary school students in Marion, Sequatchie and Grundy counties to name the trucks.› Submissions will be accepted through Wednesday, March 23, at Starting Thursday, March 24, the public is asked to vote on the submissions, and winners will be announced Wednesday, March 30.› The first-place winner will receive $10,000 for his or her school.
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