Upper Salford Volunteer Fire Company

Station 78 was busy this afternoon as we responded to 3 calls right in a row. The first call was a CO Detector then while returning we were dispatched for a mulch fire. While finishing up with the mulch fire we were called to assist Lower Frederick Fire Company to standby at a helicopter landing.

Here are our raffle winners for the June 19th Food truck event!

Today and Tomorrow are Prime Days! We would be grateful for your support if you did your shopping through Amazon smile and choose Upper Salford Volunteer Fire Company! Every little bit helps us make sure our lights are on and the trucks are running! We appreciate your support!

What an event our first two Food Truck Mayhem events were! It was only successful for the following reasons. Our Community Thank you for your desperately needed Support! Supporting us allows us to Serve you. We’re so happy you came out and had an enjoyable day! Our Sponsors We are very appreciative of your support and donations! Local businesses are the backbone of our community and we couldn’t have accomplished this without you! Spring Mountain Adventures and the Buckman...s What a perfect place to host our Food Truck Mayhem events! Thank You for your support and use of the facilities! Back Home Butcher Shop and Country Store and Meetinghouse Garage- Thank you for your generosity and the outrageous Grand Prizes that two very happy attendees will enjoy! Food Trucks/Vendors They brought the most amazing food that left us wanting more! Very well done! Wow Wagon, Van Pelt Hot Dog Co., Uncle Paul's Stuffed Pretzels, Smokehouse Food Truck, Philly Waffle Cabin, Bananarama Sundae, Fiesta Churros, Speakeasy Coffee Company, LATIN BITES, Ortino's North Side, Famous Firehouse Fires. From Upper Salford Volunteer Fire Company THANK YOU! Everyone. It was our pleasure to host this event and we had a great deal of fun doing so! We would like to say Congratulations to our Fan Favorite Food Truck winners UNCLE PAULS STUFFED PRETZELS (Savory) and PHILLY WAFFLE CABIN (Sweet)!! As well as a special thank you to Tylersport Volunteer Fire Company for covering us during both of these events!! Please keep in touch and watch for more information on our next Mayhem Event In the future! We will once again have Great Food Vendors and more outrageous grand prizes. We’ll be looking forward to seeing you all again!

From all the members of USVFC, we wanted to wish all the dad's a very Happy Father's Day! Enjoy your special day as you all deserve it!

Our Santa Run today was a total success! We would like to thank the residents of Upper Salford for all of your generous donations for our non perishable food items! Also, a big thank you for Pelleritos Pizza for our lunch today!

Reminder that Santa will be around the Township all day at the times listed on the flyer! See you all tomorrow!

This morning at 3:14, Upper Salford Fire Company was dispatched to a reported chimney fire. Units arrived to find fire between the chimney and the wall. Crews from Engine and Utility 78 worked with neighboring companies to quickly and safely extinguish the fire. Thanks to Lower Frederick Fire Company, Perkiomen Township Fire Company and Harleysville Community Fire Company for the assistance as well as Moyers restoration services.

Lieutenant and Engine 78 are standing by at Plymouth Ambulance to deliver toys to kids at Bryn Mawr Hospital and St. Christopher’s Hospital. Thanks for all your donations of toys! There will be lots of happy kids today!

The Members of the Upper Salford Fire Company are excited and pleased to announce that we will be escorting SANTA around the township on Saturday, December 19, 2020! See the flyer below to see the times he will be arriving throughout the township!

If you’d like to donate new unwrapped toys for the toy drive we’re participating in on Saturday, bring them by the station tonight beginning at 6pm. Help us bring some joy to kids this Christmas Season!

Come on out to the Upper Salford Firehouse on Halloween for Trunk or Treat! Set up will be at 12 and trick or treating starts at 12:15!

Just a reminder that any donation of new and unwrapped toys for the Toy Run members will be participating in can be dropped off at the Upper Salford Firehouse this Thursday, December 3 from 6-8:30pm. Thanks very much!

The Upper Sanford Fire Company would like to wish Chief Engineer Sheldon Smith a very Happy Birthday today! Thank you for all you do for the community and enjoy your day!

Harleysville Community Fire Company will be holding their Open House this year! Come on out and support our neighbor company! We will also be in attendance with some apparatus as well.

Chief and Marine 78 assisted as part of the down stream safety.

Members of the Upper Salford, Tylersport, and Lower Frederick Fire Companies; to include approximately 30 members of the local community, participated in yesterday's 9/11 Memorial Walk at Upper Salford Park. Thank you to all who came out to honor the selfless sacrifices of all first responders killed on September 11, 2001. #NeverForget #FDNY343 #UnitedWeStand #LetsRoll #UpperSalfordStrong

The Members of the Upper Salford Fire Company would like to extend our wishes of a very Happy Thanksgiving to you and your families. We are grateful for the support of our community and for the commitment of all of our member’s efforts in keeping our community safe on a daily basis. Happy Thanksgiving!

The Upper Salford Volunteer Fire Company will be conducting a 9/11 Memorial Walk this evening (9/11/2020) at Upper Salford Park to honor the first responders killed 19 years ago, today. The event will begin at 6:00pm this evening and members of the community are welcome to join. We will begin walking at 6:15, complete a .88 mile course, and finish with a moment of silence at the flagpole. This is a strictly apolitical event designed to bring the community together and honor the memory of those brave Americans who selflessly sacrificed their own lives to save others. Participants are encouraged to bring their own water bottles as there will be limited refreshments on hand.

Today, we remember the events of September 11, 2001. Never forget the lives lost that infamous day.

*Heads up* tomorrow (Tuesday) the Harleysville Community Fire Company is hosting its annual Tanker drill. The drill will start at 6:30PM. The drill involves 13 ...different area fire departments and is a large-scale operation to practice our ability to flow large volumes of water with Tanker trucks. Our initial staging will occur at the Indian Valley Middle School and then the actual drill will be on the grounds of the fire company and neighboring township/police station(access to the building and leaf dumpsters will be limited). As you can see on the attached map there will be two (2) separate tanker routes that will be in action that start at the fire company and proceed to the fill stations to refill the tanks. One is on Oak drive by Nationwide Insurance and the second will be on Kulp Road at Sumner Court (Franconia). Please use caution driving these roads tomorrow evening between 6:30pm and 9pm. We will have fire police at key spots along the routes to ensure traffic safety. Otherwise, most should not notice anything major except for a few trucks driving by! Thanks for your patience while we run this very critical drill to ensure our skills and equipment and ready to go when called upon! See more

The upper Salford Volunteer Fire Company was contacted last week with regards to renting the grounds for an event to be held Monday afternoon. The fire company makes the fire hall and grounds available for rentals for public and private events which generate Revenue, however, rental ceased in March due to covid-19 pandemic causing a significant decline in income. The fire company does not support or condone the event that is being held on Monday or aligned with any political affiliation the community will also see no reduction of service due to the event

A huge thank you to Allison and the Energy station team for the ice cream treat last night. The members and mutual aid partners greatly appreciate your kindness.

Long day for the Upper Salford volunteers. The day started for a unknown type fire call at 7:30. This was found to be a small house on fire. Once we returned to service the water rescues started. Marine 78 with boats 1 and 2 performed rescues between Towamencin and New Hanover. In all about 30 people were rescued. Special thanks to our close mutual aid partners for the amazing teamwork to complete all these rescues. Lower Frederick Fire Company Harleysville Community Fire Company

Statement from the outgoing fire company administration. The administrative officers of the Fire Company resigned amidst an issue related to their fiduciary responsibilities for company assets being maintained outside their control. The membership present at the June meeting of the company voted by a narrow margin to uphold the structure that, in violation of the company bylaws, allowed this breach in oversight to occur. The senior line Officers resigned in response to the resignation of the admin staff, unwilling or able to take on both the emergency response and administrative oversight of the company.

1 year ago today at 5pm the Upper Salford landscape changed forever with the line of severe storms producing the 120mph and higher straight line winds. For the next 40 hours Upper Salford volunteers responded to dozens of calls, checked several hundred homes, cleared hundreds of trees and distributed water to those still trapped in their neighborhoods. This was a large scale operation that at the height around 250 personnel were operating with over 30 organizations assisting. The fire company hall turned into the emergency operations center with every entity you can imagine present to coordinate the response. At the end of this no injuries were reported and the cleanup is still ongoing. Please share a memory or picture of this historic and hopefully once in a lifetime event.