Members Wanted The Sharps Hill VFD is always looking for members. Your help is needed. Even those who have no desire to fight fires and respond to emergencies are needed. Consider helping your community, any help you can offer is welcome. If you are interested, stop at the station any Tuesday night during training or call 412-781-1226 and leave a message. Did you know that by committing to our department you can go to CCAC and have your tuition and texts paid for. More information can be obtained at this link FireVEST Scholarship Program
Please remember in your thoughts and prayer Lifetime Member Joe Hilinski who passed away on February 20th
What's New On The Hill The
2010 fire officers met on the first Tuesday of the year to discuss goals and
objectives for the upcoming year. These goals and objectives will be
discussed and shared with the membership at the upcoming monthly meeting. We
received word that we were awarded a portion of our total request from the
Volunteer Fire Company/Volunteer EMS Company Grant Program. This grant is
administered thru the State Fire Commissioners Office. The training room renovation has
almost been completed, work still needs to be done on
purchasing some additional audio visual components and mounting of the data
projector and dry erase boards. Chris has done an outstanding job of
supervising the work, many thanks to him for his hard work.
2009 Statistics posted
2009 statistics are posted on the front page.
2010 Fund Drive
Thanks to all who
have supported our past annual fund drives. The 2010 fund drive reminder
requests have been
sent out to the residents.
Fund Raising Great job by the Chili's fund raiser
by Jerry and his wife Joyce as well as all the others who helped and
supported this event. Remember the Annual Turkey Bingo will be held on the
traditional Sunday before Thanksgiving. This year it will be held on Sunday
November 21st starting at 1pm, doors will be open at 11. Back again this
year is the popular basket raffles and 50/50. Additional fund raising events will be posted as that information is
finalized.
Meeting Dates 2010 Sharps Hill
Monthly meeting will be held October 26th, November 23rd and
December 21st. All meetings
begin at 7pm. Shaler Township Meetings are held the 3rd Monday of each month at 8pm.
Shaler Villa will be hosting the October meeting, We will be hosting the Nov
15th meeting and Undercliff will host the Dec 20th meeting. There will be a
relief meeting at the December meeting. Lower Valley meeting is the first
Wednesday of the month.
Upcoming
Training and Education for 2010
The officers have sent up an aggressive first half of the year with the 24
hour HazMat Operations class followed by ProBoard certifications in HazMat
Awareness and Operations. These classes will be followed by First Aid CPR
training that meets the requirement for Firefighter I certification. a
Firefighter I prep will be held shortly after that. Once all training is
completed members not already certified will be testing to the Firefighter I
level.
Check the postings at the station for all local and national level
training/educational opportunities.
Equipment News Squad 1 has been
delivered and has been placed into service, the stripping, tow hitch and
auto-eject battery conditioner were installed and placed into service
with the radio designation of Squad 1.
Squad 2 had the install
of back up camera, and auto-eject battery conditioner completed. C-2 has been working
diligently to schedule everything. Additional air hose has been added
to the trailer to now give us a total of 250 feet on the cord reel. Air Trailer reel
has been outfitted with all possible adapters including the rapid
intervention connection. We now have the resources to fill SCUBA bottles, SCBA bottles, and also SCBA systems on vehicles and fixed systems all via
the high pressure cord reel on the front of the air trailer. During recent
training we were able to use the air reel to refill bottles without members
having to remove their bottle. We also added a portable frag tank to Squad
2, this tank will allow us to remotely fill bottles.
Ladies Auxiliary The Auxiliary just
completed their Fall dinner bingo with great success. Their next event will
be posted as it becomes available. Grant News The officers and members submitted a list to the Office of the State Fire Commissioner grant. We were awarded grant money that will be used to upgrade SCBA. This will be the last of the SCBA that needs to be replaced. We will now have the latest model SCBA for all vehicles. A new entrance door into the vehicle garage is also part of the award. Previous grant money was used for new self contained breathing apparatus and a ventilation saw. These items will enhance firefighter safety on the fire ground. These items were placed into service following training and education. In 2003 we received a grant for an air trailer and thermal imaging camera. The air trailer arrived on August 2nd and is a welcome addition. It has the capabilities to refill air bottles at the station and if necessary can be used at the scene of an emergency incident. It is dual drive which means it can operate on either diesel or electric. It has four ASME 6000psi bottles for storage. It was purchased thru Bob Beatty of O Ring and Associates. In 2002 we received a FEMA Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) for bunker gear which allowed us to outfit all of our frontline firefighters with state of art 100% NFPA compliant equipment. The equipment was purchased thru JD Klosky.
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