West Kittanning Fire Department Station 240

SANTA CLAUS DRIVE THRU With as trying as 2020 has been for so many of us, Santa has agreed to make a special stop at the West Kittanning Fire Department! Families are invited to drive through our fire station and pay a visit to Santa where kids can share their wish lists with him from the convenience of their vehicles. ... After they each get to talk to Santa, he will have a tasty treat for the children! When: Sunday December 13th, 2020 Time: 2pm-5pm After he wraps up his visit at the Fire Station, at 5pm Santa will parade through West Kittanning Borough aboard one of the Fire Trucks. We hope to see you there! *Please enter the parking lot off of Arthur Street, wrap around the parking lot, enter through the rear station door, drive through the truck bay and exit through the First Avenue door*

*****SOLD OUT***** See you tonight!

We still have some Lottery Scratch off Raffle Tickets available! Let us know you still need yours and we’ll make arrangements to meet up with you! Thanks! ... **Someone will be at the Fire Station Tuesday December 8th from 5pm-7pm selling any remaining tickets if you’d like to stop by**

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3359960460896254&id=2643732955852345

Reminder: Hazmat Ops class begins tonight at our station. Please messages us if you haven’t already signed up and plan on attending.

West Kittanning Fire Department has been invited to team up with Kittanning Borough Hose Companies 1, 4 and 6 in a food drive to benefit area residents in need this holiday season. Non-perishable food donations will be collected by each department and delivered in bulk to the Salvation Army in Kittanning on December 19th, 2020. You may drop off your donations at our station Thursdays between 6-8pm or by sending us a Facebook message to make other arrangements for a member to meet you at our station to accept your donation. You may also drop off your donated food items at any of the three Kittanning Borough Fire Departments. Your generosity is greatly appreciated!

Wishing a Happy & Blessed Thanksgiving to all!

Last week, crews from our department met up with Kittanning Hose Co 6 for both departments to familiarize ourselves with equipment locations and operations on Rescue 240, Engine 131 and Tower 131. Monday evening for drill, we joined Kittanning Hose Co 1 and Kittanning Hose Co 6 at the Armstrong County Fire School. Excellent job by all involved!

At 14:11 this afternoon, Armstrong 911 alerted Stations 240, 60, 110, 130, 80 and 90 for a large woods fire endangering multiple structures on Mile Long Hill Road, North Buffalo Twp. First arriving units from Station 110 confirmed a large working woods fire, rapidly spreading. Crews were faced with difficult access to the head off the fire because of inaccessible terrain by vehicle. Crews began ascending the hillside on foot from the bottom in an attempt to control the fire u...ntil UTV 240 and UTV 260 were able to make access and be utilized. Station 250 was requested for a Brush Truck and Tanker as well as Station 260 for their UTV and Tanker. On behalf of the department, I’d like to extend a huge thank you not only to our crew but also to the crews from: West Hills Emergency Services, Kittanning Hose Company 1, Kittanning Hose Company 6, Ford Cliff Fire Dept, Ford City Fire Department, Rayburn Fire Dept, Worthington West Franklin Fire Dept, and Kittanning EMS for their assistance and tremendous work today. Also thanks to Manor Twp Emergency Management Coordinator for launching his drone from across the river to give us arial updates of the fire progression in areas we couldn’t initially see from the ground. Thank you again to all who were involved. Chris Beck Assistant Chief West Kittanning Fire Dept

Special Announcement: Please be advised that the Small Games Event we had originally scheduled for Saturday October 3rd has been CANCELED due to lack of interest. The fundraising committee is exploring options for alternate fundraisers. We appreciate your understating and thank you for your continued support!

Don’t forget today is our Drive Thru Ham Dinner from 11am until 2pm (or sold out) We hope to see you there!

We regret to announce that due to the uncertainties of the rules and regulations of the Covid Pandemic and things changing daily, we have decided to cancel our 13 Stories event to be held on October the 3rd...if you have already purchased tickets for this event a full refund will be made available ....As always we sincerly thank you for all you're support and we hope things will return to normal in the near future

Our Department is hosting a complete Hazmat Ops class for anyone interested.

We Will Never Forget Remembering those lives lost on that tragic day... 8 EMTs/Paramedics 60 Police Officers ... 343 Firefighters 2,997 Civilians See more

The members of West Kittanning Fire Department want to extend a huge THANK YOU to Joe Zambotti of Zambotti’s Collision & Welding Center for donating his time to mount trays for our hard suction hoses on Engine 241. Engine 1 never had storage for our hard suctions so we repurposed the trays from Engine 244 (Goliath) when that truck was taken out of service last fall. Engine 241 recently returned from having a pump overhaul at Kaza Fire Equipment to complete and pass pump certification.