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Welcome to the Official Website for the Salisbury Township Fire & Ambulance
"Proudly serving Salisbury Township and surrounding communities since 1914"
"100% Volunteer 24/7/365...Neighbors helping Neighbors"
Change the clock, change the battery!!!
MARCH 10
- What does this mean and what does it have to do with fire safety?
When you change your clocks back an hour this weekend (2AM on On Sunday, March 14, 2010), please remember to replace that batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. This attention to your detectors may save the life of yourself and the ones you love.
The Salisbury Township Fire Company wants everyone to know that Smoke & Carbon Monoxide Detectors can save lives when operating properly. There are many types, however ... (Full Story & Photos)
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Quick work by the first in crews held the fire to the room of origin.
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Ambulance and Tanker assist in Paradise Township
MARCH 07
- At exactly 12 noon on Sunday, March 7, Tanker 4-9 and Ambulance 4-9 were dispatched to assist the Kinzer Fire Company (Station 4-5) on a barn fire in the 000 block of Frogtown Road in Paradise Township.
Lancaster County 911 was reporting a pig barn on fire with animals still inside. Units arrived on the scene, confirming a working fire. Quick work by the first arriving crews held the fire to the room of origin, sparing the rest of the barn.
Tanker 4-9 cleared the scene at 12:40, while Ambulance ... (Full Story & Photos)
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Chimney Fire on Wertztown Road
MARCH 05
- At 5:30PM on Friday, March 5, Station 4-9 was dispatched to the 6000 block of Wertztown Road in the Wertztown section of Salisbury Township for a chimney fire. The fire was reported to Lancaster County 911 by a neighbor, whom reported flames from the chimney.
Units arrived with a working chimney fire, with no fire visible from the exterior. Crews dropped the chimney chains down the chimney to clean the chimney of the burning creosote and debris, and also cleaned out the woodstove and stove pipe. ... (Full Story & Photos)
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Station 4-9 was dispatched to this residence on Wertztown Road for a chimney fire
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. Police K-9 Officer Ricky with Police Chief Curt Martinez
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Condolences to the West Caln Township Police
MARCH 05
- The Officers and Members of the Salisbury Township Fire Company #1 wish to extend our condolences to the West Caln Township Police Department, Chief Curt Martinez, and the Martinez family on the loss of Police K-9 Ricky on February 11, 2010. Ricky was an eleven year old German Shepherd who was a longtime partner of West Caln Police Chief Curt A. Martinez. Ricky was euthanized after the discovery of a softball-size tumor in his spleen.
On Friday, March 5, a public memorial service was held at ... (Full Story & Photos)
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Tanker assists on Leacock Township building fire
MARCH 01
- At 10:54PM on March 1, Tanker 4-9 was dispatched as part of the second alarm assignment to assist Station 4-1 (Bird-In-Hand) on a building fire in the 200 block of Mascot Road in Leacock Township.
First alarm units arrived on the scene with a cabinet shop well involved in fire and requested the second alarm. Tanker 4-9, along with five other tankers, transferred water from a nearby creek to the fire scene.
The fire was placed under control at 11:44PM. The Pennsylvania State Police Fire Marshall's ... (Full Story & Photos)
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Units from eleven area companies responded to this building fire on Mascot Road
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Engine 4-9-2 standing by in Station 4-4
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Engine 4-9-2 covers Station 4-4
FEBRUARY 20
- On the morning of Saturday, February 20, Engine 4-9-2 traveled to Station 4-4 (Intercourse) for a fire training class.
During the class, at 9:52 AM, Station 4-4 was dispatched to assist Station 4-1 (Bird-In-Hand) on a two alarm barn fire in Leacock Township.
At 10:13 Engine 4-9-2 was placed by Lancaster County 911 on the transfer assignment to Station 4-4, from the training assignment.
With the training class cut short by the fire, Engine 4-9-2's crew entertained themselves by watching ... (Full Story & Photos)
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Vehicle accident on Cambridge Road
FEBRUARY 16
- At 5:40PM on Tuesday, February 16, Station 4-9 along with Rescue 4-2 (Gap) and Medic 6 (Lancaster EMS) were dispatched to the 100 block of Cambridge Road in Salisbury Township for a vehicle accident with entrapment.
Responding units were advised by Lancaster County 911 of a two vehicle accident involving an SUV and a station wagon, and that the driver of the station wagon was unable to get out of the vehicle.
Engine 4-9-1 arrived on the scene, advising that the vehicles were off the roadway ... (Full Story & Photos)
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Station 4-9 units arrive on the scene
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Passing of longtime member Mike Summers
FEBRUARY 12
- The Officers and Members of the Salisbury Township Fire Company #1 wish to extend our condolences to the family of Allen M. "Mike" Summers. Mike was a longtime member of the Fire Company, serving as Fire Company Recording Secretary for several years in the early 1980's.
The following is Mike's obituary as it appeared in the Lancaster newspapers:
"Allen M. "Mike" Summers, age 86, formerly of Narvon, passed away on Thursday, February 11, 2010 at Harrison Senior Living of Christiana.
He was ... (Full Story & Photos)
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