Armstrong County Fireman's Association

We have 6 books of tickets left! We need your help. 1st Drawing is @ noon today. ... $10, 2 guns, 2 numbers. here's how it works your 2 numbers are good for the 1st gun at noon a savage .17 HRM, then both numbers are good for the 7 pm drawing for a Panzer AR-12 with a 20 round drum. Message for Pay Pal and Venmo. Thank you for your support.

Congratulations to Ryan Rhodes winner of the $2,500 Scratch-Off Holiday Pocket Stuffer winning ticket number 532. We thank everyone for their ongoing support, raffles like this help us build a training facility for the volunteer firefighters of Armstrong County and surrounding counties. Stay tuned for future raffles.

Next Meeting Dec 21 2020 at 7:00 PM. Host Company is Washington Twp.

See these? Do you know what they are and what they represent? They are the shoes of volunteer firefighters.... They are the comfortable shoes, worn at home, running errands, taking the dog out, raking the leaves. They were shed without hesitation to don heavy uncomfortable boots and bunker gear designed to offer at least some protection from fire, broken glass, and jagged metal. Clothing whose sole purpose is to protect..... those who protect you. Local guys. They work in the oil patch, the local ag supplier, trucking company, phone company or area farms. Some are even retired but just not smart enough to stay that way. They leave their wives, children, parents or whomever to come to complete strangers aid. 12 noon, 3pm, 2 am, it makes no difference. And their families want little more than to see them put their shoes back on at the end of the call. There are no words to describe the task of picking up that pair of shoes after a call, knowing the man or woman who put them there will not be returning to do it themselves. Pay attention. Get off the fricking phone. Move over. Help them put their shoes back on

Anyone planning on attending the burn this coming Sunday, please fill out the Form on the event post on this page if you have not already done so. We need to know who is coming, so that we can plan out the day. Thank you for your interest. We are stocked up on pallets, water source is full, have 30 plus attendees so far for the day. We are in need of around 15-20 hay bales if anyone has a source (free or low cost). Also if anyone is planning on bringing apparatus with the intent to use as the school, let us know so that we can make full arrangements for needed rigs. We are looking forward to a bright future for the training facility and can not do it without YOU!

Would everyone like to share this once please. It indicates that the person wearing it is deaf or hard of hearing and in some cases wears a hearing aid. In thes...e times (when wearing mouth masks) it is impossible to lip-read, which makes it extra difficult. There is little point in wearing the sign if half the people don't know what it means. The deaf and hard of hearing will thank you I'm trying to find a source of these, but thought I'd share in the meantime. Thank you Emma https://www.redbubble.com/shop/hearing+impaired+stickers

We appreciate the interest in coming out to the school on the 15th. If you are planning to come, we need some information from you to establish our schedule for the day. All who plan to attend must fill this form so that we can have a successful day. https://forms.gle/nmSiaDwEgMtkDVWp7... Would you prefer lunch to be each person’s responsibility, or prefer to throw together in the morning and order pizza or something in?

Reminder of Class for Tomorrow 11-1 & 11-8

Just looking at getting the word out to everyone. We are planning to hold an all day structure burn session at the ACFS. Sunday, November 15, 2020 from 8-? The game plan is to work with all experience levels and possibly perform some Roll-in scenarios as well. Complete details will be forthcoming, if you have ideas and requests, please forward them to the training school directors.... We are pleased to announce that we have a new group of directors with the intent to bring back as much training at the school as possible. Stay safe everyone.

Join us Next week! Topic is Gas Monitoring with MSA’s own

Mark your calendars for Wing Night. This month we will be moving it to Saturday evening due to our Apollo-Ridge Vikings playing a away game on Friday night. We are also adding fries back to the menu.

Beginning November 16 2020 meetings will begin at 7:00 pm Tickets need to be turned in by 7:30.

Reminder: October Meeting 10/19/2020 @ 8 PMReminder: October Meeting 10/19/2020 @ 8 PM

Please exercise fire safety and preplanning in your home!

Hose Company 6 members have tickets avaliable or we can accept online payments.

When leaving a message PLEASE leave a phone number that we can confirm your order! Thank you.

Remember to share with all fire chiefs and line officers! We hope to see you tomorrow!

A friendly reminder and warning for those of you with kids and dogs - It is September and the start of football season, but it is also the time of year when cop...perheads are born. The baby snakes are born with venom and ready to defend themselves. The mama snake generally gives birth to about 8 - 10 of these critters, so if you find one there are others around. The babies will keep those greenish/yellow tips on their tails for about a year. These snakes are not generally aggressive but will bite if you are unfortunate enough to touch or step on one. Do not reach under bushes, around rocks, or even flower pots without looking first. They like damp places so beware, even under children's toys and dog dishes! Photo credit goes to the Virginia Professional Wildlife Removal Services, LLC. See more

There will be a hands on demo of the FAST Board this Saturday, September 26, 2020 starting st 4:00 PM at the Armstrong County Fire Training School for anyone who would like to attend.

Just a few updates for the event. We will be having pulled pork dinners at the firehall starting at 2:00pm. Dinners will include baked beans, cole slaw, and a d...inner roll. Dinners will be $10.00. Each "driver" will recieve one free dinner, passangers will recieve half off one dinner. We will have a DJ set up at the firehall starting at 2:00pm along with the Car/Bike Show. We look forward to seeing you all there! See more

Manor Township Halloween is a go. This year on Saturday, October 31st there are two options. 1. Trunk or treat at the Fort Run Park from 3pm-4pm 2. House to h...ouse trick or treating from 4pm-6pm. Of course the kids can participate in both if they would like. Be safe.

We’d like to extend our gratitude to Amanda and Trenton from Mike’s Towing, Kittanning Twp VFD, and Kittanning Hose Co #1 for the assistance last night while we were out on an extended call. It was greatly appreciated!

A clean fence line is a happy fence line.

Here is the next fundraising ticket they will be distributed to departments at the meeting Monday night 9/21/20.

Thanks for having us South Buffalo Twp Fire Department for the Rural Water Movement Training class. Great working with South Buffalo Twp, Herman, Parks Twp, and Upper Burrell Twp Fire Departments. Stay Safe All !

Our crews along with both Engines returned into service a short while ago from assisting Indiana Station 310 (Iselin) with a commercial structure fire. Crews assisted with fire suppression for a little over 4 hours before returning into service.

We shall never forget 9/11

BINGO NIGHT AGAIN Weather permitting we will be having outdoor bingo in our pavllion Thursday at 7 pm. Doors open at 5:30 as does the kitchen...it was fanstastic last week...should be even better this week! Also available arw fall gun bash tickets. $10 each.

Drill 9/9/2020 First, we stopped by Armstrong High School to go over the Fire Department Connection. Then, we headed to the Allegheny River to do a little drafting.

Don’t forget to come out October 3rd for our Fall Motorcycle/Car Poker Run & Show! We will have pulled pork dinners at the hall starting at 2!

UPDATE**** As most of you know with all the restrictions and guidelines we were forced to postpone our 2020 Spring gun bash. As of now we have rescheduled the ...gun bash for October 31,2020. We will be using the SPRING GUN BASH tickets so please hold onto them. If you have not had the opportunity to purchase tickets we have plenty left. Thank you for your continued support and we look forward to seeing you on Halloween! See more

It’s door day at the ACFS Thank you Nick Heginbotham for your welding skills.

Things are looking up at the ACFS! Clean-Up is going very well! More departments have started training at the school already!

Sorry for the late notice, but anyone available for another clean up day at the school tomorrow, 11 am. We’ll have some tools to work with, but feel free to bring your favorite brush removal device. We look forward to seeing you tomorrow!

Another evening of training at the school. Kittanning 1 made use of the burn structure this evening with attack on room and contents and victim search.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: The Manor Township Supervisors have Issued a Temporary Emergency Burning Ban effective immediately and running unitl September 8, 2020. Armst...rong County and Manor Township is under moderate drought warning and experiencing very high risk fire conditions due to the dry fuel load. Therefore, the Manor Township Fire Chief has requested and the Manor Township DCNR District Fire Warden has recommended that this temporary emergency burn ban be implemented. Declaration is attached Burn Ban Definition Open burning is defined as the ignition and subsequent burning of any combustible material (garbage, leaves, grass, twigs, litter, paper, vegetative matter involved with land clearing, or any sort of debris) out-of-doors, either in a burn barrel or on the ground. The use of propane or gas stoves, charcoal briquette grills, or the use of tobacco in any form is not covered under the burn bans. Camp fires are allowed in the fire rings that confine and contain the camp fire.

Congratulations Joe Anthony winner of the pig on the pit raffle.

It’s great to see the training center being used for structural firefighting techniques. Tonight ACFA hosts West Kittanning and Worthington Fire Departments for an evening of training exercises.

Thank you to those who purchased roast beef sandwiches last night at Rock’n the Cliff! We truly appreciate the the continued support from our community! It was ...a great night for all! Thank you also to Dave Orton and the Ford Cliff VFC for giving us the opportunity to join in on the great fundraiser! Working together to better serve our community! See more

110 doing a little roof clean up for the smoke structure’s new roof

Today we served over 450 roast beef dinners!! We will be taking September off due to Labor Day weekend but will be back on October 4th! We can’t thank everyone enough for the continued support! Stay turned for other fundraiser updates!

07/29-15:16-Structure Fire-Griffith Road-West Mahoning Twp-Plumville, Marion Center, Dayton, J12, CAS dispatched to a working Structure fire

CHICKEN WINGS ARE BACK!!! Next two dates have been selected.

See any Apollo #3 Member.

To any Departments that are interested in rejoining the Association here is a list of what we will need from you.

2020-2021 Row Officers of the Association being sworn in.

Here is a preview of the ticket that will be distributed at July 20th meeting. There will be 1,000 tickets printed, as this drawing will run off the PA Lottery all tickets must be sold. The drawing is 8/24/20 all tickets will be due at the August meeting 8/17/20.

We’d like to send a huge thank you out to those who came out and helped with our first (of many) clean up days at the fire school. West Kittanning - Justin Walters Kittanning Twp. - Shawn Shearer Kittanning #1 - Patrick Shuster, Kevin Kline ... Kittanning #4 - Dalton Rumbarger, Buzz Kline Kittanning #6- Austin Dunbar, Harvey Smith, Natasha Kline, Matthew Kline, Zachary Kline Ford Cliff - Joey Peluso, Kevin Bowser Manor Twp. - Jim McAfoose See more

We’re still on for tomorrow morning to get done what we can. See you at 9:00am, fingers crossed that this much needed rain will give us a break to get some stuff done!

No better time than right now to drop off a couple cases of water at your local fire department. Over a week of 90+ degree weather, and wearing all their gear......your donations would be greatly appreciated! Remember, most fire department fund raisers were cancelled this year, so help them out, they need it more now than ever! See more

We’ve been doing a little cleanup around the school over the last couple of months. We’d like to get a good grip on it and get it ready for all member departments to use. Call it a revitalization if you wish, we just think it’s time for proper usage again. Please consider coming out this Saturday morning at 9:00 AM for a work detail to make it happen. Since the school has minimal equipment, please consider bringing any gear to complete the tasks of brush removal, tree limb removal, or shovels, brooms, etc. Anyone with cutting torches can assist with scrap handling. Also, your safety is of primary concern, so be sure to dress appropriate, since you may encounter snakes, ticks, mosquitos, and other critters. We will create an event so that you can all let us know who is coming to lend a hand. Thank you, staff.

Still have a lot of fire depts that have not paid there membership dues yet. Jily 1 was the due date. Also understand that some depts. Are thinking about rejoining. That had dropped out of the association.

The Officers and Members of the Manor Township Volunteer Fire Company would like to wish everyone a safe and Happy Independence Day!