Alert Fire Company

The Alert Fire Co. No. 1 will host our 50th Annual Chicken Bar-B-Que and Bake Sale Fundraiser on Saturday, August 18, 2018.  Dinner will be served from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM and you can either eat-in at the firehouse or take-out.  Advanced tickets can be purchased at the firehouse … [Read more...]

Volunteers from Alert played softball, this past weekend in the 10th Annual Bats For Matt Softball Tournament, held at the Downingtown Little League fields.  The A-Team participated with 17 other teams from around the Downingtown area in the two-day slow-pitch softball tournament … [Read more...]

The Downingtown Fire Dept. hosted a Water Shuttle-Tanker Ops training at our weekly training event on Wednesday evening at Downingtown West High School and Downingtown Middle School. Glen Moore Fire Co. Chief Jeff Seese and Deputy Chief Paul DeCarlo conducted the training and … [Read more...]

Amazon's Prime Day is here! Deals start at 3:00 PM ET, July 16th. and runs for 36 hours.  Prime Day is one of the biggest shopping days of the year.  We would like to remind you to shop at  smile.amazon.com  and Amazon will donate to the Alert Fire Company No. 1 of … [Read more...]

Just after 11:30 PM last night, the Downingtown Fire Dept. was dispatched for a fire-type unknown at Johnsontown Park. The crews arrived to find a porta-potty fully involved and contained everything to the area of origin. Engines 45, 46-1 and 46-2 responded to a total of six … [Read more...]

Just before 10:00 PM, the Downingtown Fire Dept. was dispatched for a dumpster fire to the rear of 38 W. Lancaster Ave. in the Borough.  Battalion Chief 45 (Trego) arrived to find a plastic type of a dumpster well-involved, next to an apartment building.  Engines 45 and 46-1 … [Read more...]

The Alert No. 1 and Downingtown Fire Dept. volunteers were busy from 6:00 AM until 11:40 PM today, preparing and keeping our community safe during all of the 40th. Annual Downingtown Good Neighbor Day events and Independence Day Celebration. The Alerts started the day with what … [Read more...]

The members and officers of the Alert Fire Co. No. 1 would like to wish you and your family a Happy and Safe Independence Day! … [Read more...]

Below, is an article recently posted from the  www.helpfightfire.com  social media.  The Chester County Fire Chiefs Association is currently involved with a volunteer recruiting campaign to assist the fire, rescue and EMS departments and companies recruit new members.  This … [Read more...]

Congratulations to two of our newer Alert No. 1 volunteers, Heather Bouffard and Alex Green who graduated from EMT class. Heather and Alex started their EMT training in March and it consisted of three evenings and just about every Saturday between March and June. They received … [Read more...]

The officers and members of the Alert Fire Co. No. 1 would like to wish you a Safe and Happy Flag Day! … [Read more...]

The Downingtown Fire Dept. volunteers participated, for the first time, with our new recruiting tent, banners and table clothes, at the Annual Chester County Mac & Cheese Cook Off in Kerr Park today.  This event was sponsored by the Downingtown/Thorndale Rotary Club. Our … [Read more...]

The Downingtown Fire Dept. volunteers spent five hours training in live-fire, house fire scenarios at the Chester County Public Safety Training Center in South Coatesville. Both, Alert and Minquas members practiced basic operations of search and rescue plus ventilation for the … [Read more...]

You've heard this saying before, "training never stops"!  Well, that's a true statement for our Alert No. 1 volunteers.  The Wednesday evening, weekly training events for our members during the month of May were dedicated to fire ground ventilation. The first Wednesday, the crew … [Read more...]

The Downingtown Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 845 and the Downingtown American Legion Post 475 hosted the Annual Memorial Parade today with the entire Downingtown Fire Dept. participating. At the completion of the parade, a ceremony to honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice … [Read more...]