Firefighters practiced motor vehicle rescue techniques. Volunteers used battery powered rescue spreaders, cutters, ram-jacks and other tools to simulate real life rescue problems.

The Rescue-Engine and Tanker were deployed to the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport to assist the airport fire department and Secret Service with stand-by operations for the landing and departure of Air Force Two and The Vice President.

Engine 39 and crew are on standby at Station 37 while Norvelt VFD operates on scene of a working residential structure fire.

While the Halloween Parade was cancelled the YVFD participated in community Trick or Treating.

YVFD Firefighters practiced Rural Water Movement skills. Among the skills the “Rural Hitch” using a 5” double clappered siamese to provide an uninterrupted flow of water from two separate limited sources of water like tankers.

t 08:05 the Rescue and Service were dispatched to a reported motor vehicle accident with entrapment on High School Road. On arrival it was determined it was a medical emergency. At 08:18 the Rescue was sent to a crash on Route 30 Eastbound at Saint Vincent Drive. While assisting at this incident, at...

11-24-20
At at 18:42 the Rescue and Setvice were dispatched to a multiple car crash at the intersection of American Legion, Bell Memorial Church, and Charles Houck Roads. Chief 39 arrived to report 3 vehicles, no entrapment, one injury, and two lanes of Charles Houck Road Blocked. Mutual Aid Ambulan...

At 21:21 the Engine, Tanker, and Foam were dispatched to a car fire in a yard off Bethel Church near the Solomon Trmple Road intersection in the first due. Chief 39 arrived to report a fully involved car fire. Other companies assisting included 110 and 113 who sent their Engine to standby at 39 hous...

At 00:39 the Rescue was dispatched to assist station 114 with a single vehicle accident at the intersection of Mission Road and Monastery Drive. Captain 114 arrived to report a truck into a tree, no entrapment, one patient being evaluated by Mutual Aid Ambulance. Rescue 39 was assigned traffic contr...

At 21:44 the Tanker-Pumper and Engine were sent to assist Station 33 with a commercial garage fire on Smiths Hill Road. Chief 33 arrived to confirm a working structure fire. Tanker-Pumper 39 was first to arrive and Command requested the apparatus function as the attack engine and a 2.5” and tw...