What’s happened so far?
The Palisades and Rimrock Meadows communities seem close. On a map, anyway, if you’re unaware of the terrain and the inter-community strain exacerbated by a careless attempt at fire district creation by the Rimrock Meadows Association Board of Directors without the input of their own membership in 2025.
Both communities are in need of fire protection coverage.
The Palisades community has worked for nearly a decade to create a law at the state level that would help protect their ranching community during wildfires. Some residents have even bought their own equipment to combat wildfire. Learn more about their efforts here.
The Rimrock Meadows community had fire protection contracted through Grant County Fire District 13 since 2007, but the contract was canceled in early 2023. There has been no fire coverage since January 1, 2024. The Rimrock Meadows Board of Directors tried and failed to create a fire district in 2025. And instead of focusing on solving the problem, they sued a former employee and Fire District 13 commissioner instead — and they didn’t tell their membership about that, either. (Web page with more information and a trove of public documents coming soon!)
How about we do like some Palisades folks suggested and start over?
If you would like to catch up on the fire protection efforts of these two communities, look no further:
Rimrock Meadows (web page coming soon)
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Who Am I?
Well, I was just a lady minding my own business on my little property until I was asked to run for the Rimrock Meadows Board of Directors.
My name is Rhiannon, but you can call me Ree. I'm a retired investigative journalist and paralegal. So, when I started reading the Board's meeting minutes and a bunch of red flags went off, I did what I do — I dug in.
After the fiasco that was the Jan. 28, 2026, community meeting between the Palisades and Rimrock Meadows — which was way too little, way too late — I picked up my pace.
I started requesting public documents from Grant and Douglas Counties, and from Rimrock Meadows Association (RMA). As of this writing, the only outstanding request — and the only entity that gave me a hard time about a records request — is RMA.
I also started looking into the Palisades' past efforts to secure fire protection.
What I've found is being published here for the benefit of the community. No one is paying me; I'm paying. No one is telling me what to write — anyone who knows me knows that'd be a fool's errand anyway.
If you’ve got something to add, want to volunteer to help with the effort to create a fire district for the benefit of all, or just want to say hi, please use the contact form found here.
Right now, neither community is part of this website though I welcome both. As I said at the Jan. 28 meeting: I volunteer as tribute! I’ll be happy to help coordinate and do whatever we’ve got to do to make a fire district a reality.
I grew up in rural Alabama and have volunteered at two rural fire departments. Let me tell you, being part of a volunteer fire department is pretty wonderful. It takes very special people to volunteer to be EMTs and fire fighters, for one thing. But when you see how a volunteer fire department can pull a community together, you’ll wonder what took us so damn long to get our shit together to make it happen.
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Interested in working together on the creation of a fire district?
Be in touch!