- First Place: Best Appearing Rescue/Pumper – Squad 6
- First Place: Best Appearing Chiefs Vehicle – Command 6
- Second Place: Best Appearing Motorized Antique – The 1936 Little Hahn
- First Place: Best Appearing Dalmatian – Miss Halligan
Archives for September 2011
Annual Holiday Craft Fair Coming Saturday, Nov. 26th 9-2
The Annual Holiday Craft Fair returns to Flourtown Fire Company on Saturday, November 26th, 9am – 2pm. Hosted by the Ladies Auxiliary of Flourtown Fire Company the fair will have handmade goods and crafts from over 40 different vendors. From artwork to unique holiday gifts the fair will have something for everyone on your holiday shopping list. Stop by the firehouse, 1526 Bethlehem Pike, from 9am to 2PM.
The Ladies Auxiliary cookbooks will also be available for sale. Can’t make it the the fair, check out the FFCo webstore.
For more information or if you want to be a VENDOR – email us.
The LA Annual Craft Fair takes place the Saturday after Thanksgiving, each year. Please come out and support your local volunteer fire company and our loyal vendors.
Vendor Contract for our Craft Fair can be downloaded below:
Winter Heating Safety Tips
Did you know that heating equipment is a leading cause of home fires and deaths?
With a few safety tips and precautions you can prevent most heating fires from happening.
STAY SAFE AND BE WARM THIS COMING WINTER
- Keep anything that can burn at least three-feet away from heating equipment, like the furnace, wood stove, fire place, or portable space heater
- Never use your oven to heat your home
- Only a qualified professional should install stationary space heaters, water heaters, or central heating equipment
- Installation of a heating device should be installed according to local code and manufacturer’s instruction
- Have heating equipment and chimney’s cleaned by a qualified professional yearly
- If you smell gas in your gas heater call the fire company or gas company. Do not light the heater
- Test smoke alarms monthly
Source: National Fire Protection Association
Vehicle Rescue – SUV into a Building – 9/15/2011
Flourtown Fire Company and Wyndmoor Hose Company were dispatched at approximately 3:30PM to reports of a car crash into a building around 613 Bethlehem Pike in Erdenheim. Multiple callers reported two individuals trapped in the vehicle and extensive damage to the building. Squad 6 and Engine 6 responded along with Rescue 82. Stabilization of the vehicle and patients was followed by a decision to cut and flap the entire roof of the vehicle so extrication of the driver who was laying on the drivers door and a passenger could take place. Following extrication, and removal of the vehicle by Flourtown Texaco, lumber from Rittenhouse Lumber across the street was used to stabilize the building which had a large portion of its street facing wall destroyed in the crash.
Community Day – 9/11/2011
Wyndmoor Fire Co. Chief Fran DePaul, Oreland Deputy Chief Don Serianni, Community Day Organizer Teresa Buzniak, Flourtown Fire Company, President, Tim Ernst and Deputy Chief Springfield Ambulance Jerry Edwards and Police Corporal Ray Vesci with the awards presented by the Community to honor the emergency responders of Springfield Township.
On the Tenth Anniversary of the horrific attacks on the our nation on 9/11/01, the community of Springfield Township gather to remember all those who lost their lives in NYC, at the Pentagon and in Shanksville, PA. Flourtown Fire Company along with the other two township fire companies, Oreland Volunteer Fire Company and Wyndmoor Hose Company, Springfield Ambulance and Springfield Township Police Department were also honored as our local emergency responders. The public enjoyed free food, and information from many community organizations as they have for the last 17 years in beautiful Cisco Park in Erdenheim, PA.