

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Dent County Fire Protection District Community New Years Eve Party
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 31 Dec, 2025 at 08:00 pm – Thu, 01 Jan, 2026 at 12:05 am
- **Event Description**: Your Dent County Firefighters have been hard at work, planning your New Year's Eve Celebration. We have some exciting events planned:

Corn Hole Tournament – Entry Fee $10 per team, benefits Dent County Shop with a Cop 

Pick a partner, choose a team name (we love corny team names), arrive at 8:00 PM, register your team, and get added to the match board. Bring your “A” game. The corn sacks will start flying at 8:30 PM

First Place is a Certificate proclaiming your team is the Dent County Fire Protection District Great Cornholio of 2025 and 20% of the entry fees. 

Second Place is a Certificate proclaiming that your team was ALMOST the Dent County Fire Protection District Great Cornholio of 2025 and 5% of the entry fees.

Third Place is the return of your team's entry fee and a hopeful wish that “maybe 2026 will be your year.” 

DCFPD Karaoke – Come show off your talent - Starts around 9:00

This has always been a hit with the firefighters and families. If we can empanel some judges (Hit me up in the messages if you want to be a judge) we will offer a ridiculous award indicating that you have talent. If what you have is gritty determination to bravely step to a microphone and do your best, you will be offered an application. A pretty singing voice is surprisingly common; the willingness to put yourself out there…much less common.
 
The Outlaw:

Outlaw Fabrication LLC has created for us an absolute beast of a forcible entry simulator. 

Are you a dad who wants to show your family what's up, or a mom who wants to remind the family who is really in charge? Are you a teenager looking to impress another teenager with a feat of strength? For a limited time, starting at 10:00 PM, you can step to the OUTLAW, don a helmet, safety glasses and a pair of gloves. Arm yourself with the Halligan Bar (10 pounds of forged steel) and under the watchful eye of one of your Dent County Firefighters, who will coach you through how to safely attack the door.  Who will be the victor…you or the OUTLAW? (Some restrictions apply; you may only attempt the OUTLAW with permission of a guardian, and you must only use techniques approved by the DCFPD member supervising. You must wear the approved safety equipment. You will have a reasonable amount of time to successfully force the door, but when the DCFPD member orders the end of the attempt, the attempt is over. Depending on demand, you may be allowed a second attempt.)  

Individuals who successfully force the OUTLAW will be allowed to have a photo taken of themselves, the DCFPD member supervising, family members or that teenager who has been suitably impressed. A sign will be available for you to hold that declares you defeated the OUTLAW with the date. In the event you fail to defeat the OUTLAW, for the low, low price of $1 (payable by anybody) you agree to pose for a photo holding a sign declaring the OUTLAW victorious. The $1 fee will be applied to the Shop with Cop charity. 
 
Popcorn and a Movie 

We have a very nice training room with a very large TV and a quality sound system. Also starting at around 8:30 PM, we will offer this space for the showing of a family-friendly movie. Comment on which movie your family would like to see presented, and we will see what we can do. Pets on a Train? The Bad Guys 2 (maybe a Bad Guys marathon), what are your ideas? This will likely be a bring-your-own-popcorn event, but we do have a popcorn popper, so stay tuned. We are still working on logistics. 

Hide and Seek

We are super excited for this event. We generally want people who are trapped in buildings to tell us they are there. However, it's just as important that your children recognize that a firefighter searching a house or room for a victim looks and acts very differently than what a person might expect. So, starting around 10:00 PM, we will invite groups to come up to the search simulator. In groups of no more than 10, they can go find a place to hide. Then, a team of Your Dent County Firefighters will enter the simulator and search them out, wearing all of the gear and equipment that your tax dollars have allowed us to purchase. The walls of the simulator space are only half walls, so parents and a Safety Officer will be able to view the events and call a pause if anybody gets scared or if a safety concern arises. This will be a low-impact and absolutely safe event. We won't be dragging people around or yeeting them out of the windows. When you or your child is located, the firefighter will tap them and say, “saved you,” then the located individual will stand up and exit. The goal is to be found, but you don’t have to make it easy. A great time to see some gadgets and equipment in use while having some fun!

Hot Dogs and Chili 

We are going to cook some hot dogs and make some chili. I’m interested to know does chili has beans or not? Ours will, but I’m curious what you think? We will serve it as long as it lasts, on a first-come, first-served basis. We have heard the concerns about Alpha Gal, and we certainly don’t want to exclude anybody. If somebody would like to donate turkey hot dogs, we will cook them and keep them separate for people who identify as having that problem. The chili is a slightly more complicated issue. Producing chili in large quantities requires large quantities of stuff, and our funds are limited for this event. We are aware that a quantity of white chicken chili will be prepared by one family.  If someone who is Alpha Gal-experienced wants to assemble a pot of traditional Alpha Gal-friendly chili, we would be happy to serve it.  

If you want to bring a pot of chili, we can absolutely have a chili contest. If you’re interested in participating in a chili cookoff, comment below. We can offer a certificate for the best chili to end 2025. 

As you may have noticed, the inspiration for this event struck a little later than it should have, and we were faced with a choice. We could get this together and give it a solid shot this year or table it until next year. Firefighters, being firefighters, long ago accepted that house fires and car accidents are not planned events, and you get them when you get them. Ideas can happen the same way. We love this community, and we know it's been a rough year for a lot of people. The economy could definitely be better, but despite all that, this community came together and passed Prop Fire. That was no small feat, and there were big emotions on both sides of the fence. We wanted to say Thank You to our community, to show you some of the things we have been able to upgrade, purchase and place into service. We want to show you that, as the good stewards of the trust you placed in this organization, we have sought out local businesses to support, who bring quality and a big dose of community to the items they have provided us (looking at you, Outlaw Fabrication LLC.) Some members have put skills, sweat, and time into building props and simulators. As a community, you provided resources, giving us the tools and materials. The members have taken that and put together something you can be proud of. Yes, we are putting this together more quickly than is ideal. However, we think this event is going to come together for the majority of people. 

Ball Drop

New York City has nothing on Salem, Missouri. Weather permitting, we will set up the Ladder Truck, one of the Firefighters will ascend the ladder to the top, with a beachball where he or she will await a countdown to 2026 at which time the ball will be dropped, signifying new beginnings, hope, and the exciting transition into a fresh year. 

For those who are interested in being a part of this event or donating.

We might need to borrow a karaoke machine. We hope to use the same one we used last year, but it's good to have a backup plan. 

I don’t know that we have a beachball, if you do bring it and we can bounce the extras back and forth like it’s a Kenny Chesney Concert.
 
We won’t turn down Hot dogs and Buns, Chili ingredients. Alpha-Gal friendly hot dogs and chili. 

If someone wants to set up a face-painting booth for kids, we would love that. Message the page, and we will set it up. 

Please message the page with questions, ideas or donations. 

Come out and see us on December 31st from 8 pm in 2025 and welcome 2026 in with us at midnight for a night of family fun.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/salem/dent-county-fire-protection-district-community-new-years-eve-party/200029405304546
- **Event Categories**: new-year, entertainment, kids, music, nonprofit, dog, sports, parties, karaoke, concerts, contests, workshops, art, fine-arts, charities, marathons, tournaments, countdown
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 29

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Salem
- **state**: MO
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 2 S Main St, Salem, MO
- **lat**: 37.6426
- **long**: -91.53483
- **full address**: 2 S Main St, Salem, MO, United States

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Dent County Fire Protection District (https://allevents.in/org/dent-county-fire-protection-district/23734801)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 31 Dec, 2025 at 08:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 2 S Main St, Salem, MO, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Dent County Fire Protection District
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** new-year, entertainment, kids, music, nonprofit, dog, sports, parties, karaoke, concerts, contests, workshops, art, fine-arts, charities, marathons, tournaments, countdown
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Dent County Fire Protection District Community New Years Eve Party ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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