Rural Fire
District: Heron's rural fire district is an all volunteer service. Response time to fires varies from
1/2 hour to 1 hour according to the volunteers available and the
running condition of the trucks.
Fire Insurance: Homes in Heron are classification as a
9 or 10 fire insurance classification, depending on home location and availability of water.
U. S. Forest Service: The U.S. Forest Service fire protection is located in Trout Creek, Montana (25 miles) east.
Police Protection
The Sheriff's Office is located in Thompson Falls (45 miles east). The Sheriff's Office serves Sanders County which is 115 miles long and about 35 miles wide. Response time varies from one
half hour to three hours depending on deputy location and services required.
The Montana State
Highway Patrol responds to all motor vehicle accidents and response
time is about the same as the Sheriff's Office.
Medical Services
Bull River Family
Medicine is staffed by a Physician's Assistant, an RN,
a physical therapist and a receptionist. It is located 10 miles east on
Highway 200. Staff for the clinic is provided by Clark Fork Valley Hospital in Plains,
MT.
Heron is served by Community Ambulance
located in Noxon, Montana fifteen miles to the east. The service is provided by volunteer basic EMT personnel. Response time, once the ambulance is staffed, is
twenty minutes calculated to the Heron Store in good weather.
There are three air ambulance services, Life Flightin Missoula, Alert in Kalispell and MedStar in Spokane, Washington. These have response time with weather permitting of 45 minutes from the call-out.
Hospital services include,
Bonner General Hospital (40 miles west) in Sandpoint, Idaho, St. Johns
Lutheran Hospital (60 miles north) in Libby, Montana, and Clark Fork
Valley Hospital (75 miles east) in Plains, Montana.
Pharmacy:
Pharmaceutical services can be found in Sandpoint, Idaho (40 miles
west), Troy, Montana (47 miles north), Libby, Montana (60 miles north)
and Thompson Falls (45 miles east).
Heron-CRD
Heron Citizens for Responsible Development Heron, Montana
