Alert Fire Company

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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...]

The members and officers would like to wish you and your family a Safe and Happy Memorial Day.  Let us never forget the sacrifices that our men and women of the Armed Services have made defending our freedoms. … [Read more...]

A few of the Downingtown Fire Dept. volunteers had the opportunity to meet Traffic Reporter and local personality Bob Kelly from Fox 29 morning Good Day Philadelphia program.  Every Monday, Bob and his camera-man George travel throughout the area doing a "Town Takeover" from 4:00 … [Read more...]

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

Thank you again to all of our Sponsors, Golfers and Volunteers who made our Fifth Annual Alert Fire Co. No. 1 Golf Outing at the Ron Jaworski's Downingtown Country Club another huge success. Below, is a list of all of our 2018 Sponsors who helped make the Golf Outing a … [Read more...]