April was a busy month with 42 calls. These responses included two structure fires in neighboring communities. A single family dwelling in Adams Township, and an apartment building in McCandless Township. Members were busy with behind the scenes activities as we put 27 new breathing apparatus packs in service. Each…
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March was a quiet month for the members of the Wexford VFC with 19 calls. The most common type of call was alarm activations. There were also a few motor vehicle crashes, a couple small brush fires, and a gas leak. There was plenty of action behind the scenes. Members…
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February proved to be a very active month for fire calls with 54. Approximately 14 calls occurred during a high wind event the weekend of February 23. Most of those calls involved trees down on roads and utility damage. Crews handled a vehicle fire on Graham Road on February 17…
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For the fire call volume, January came in like a lamb and out like a lion. We ended the month with 35 calls with 13 occurring over the last four days of the month. Five of those called occurred on January 31 including an assist with a structure fire in…
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2018 was another record year with a total of 487 incidents. This was the highest total on record and an increase of 51 incidents from 2017’s total. A total of 56 members completed a total of 3894 of recorded man hours on incidents, training, company events and other activities in…
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We are excited to share that there will be some big capital improvements coming to the Wexford VFC in 2019 that will help us better serve the community. NEW BREATHING APPARATUS 27 New Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus units (SCBA) have been ordered and should delivered within the first quarter of 2019….
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We were alerted at 1:44 am on December 1 for a working garage fire in Adams Township. The fire was reported to be threatening a nearby house. Engine 2, Chief, and Tanker responded to the fire. First due companies from Adams Area Fire District, and the Callery VFC found a…
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Our members were extremely busy with calls in November with a total of 73. 51 calls occurred between the afternoon of November 15 and the end of the day on November 17. The overwhelming majority of these calls were due to a severe winter weather event involving freezing rain. During…
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Fall is probably the busiest time of the year for our organization with events and activities, and they all come to a peak in October. With fire prevention month, we provided fire safety education to approximately 800 children at the preschool and grade school level through school visits and station tours. We also held…
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September was another active month for fire calls with 49. The most common type of call was automatic fire alarms with over ten responses. The highlight for month included our open house on September 29. We estimate that about 50 people turned out over the two hour event. Activities included…
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