Upper Burrell Volunteer Fire Company #1

05/19/2026

Members took part in two training opportunities over the past few months.

hosted an Aerial Appararus Practices class. This provides students with a skill set to operate aerials for tasks such as water delivery, rescue and difficult positioning. Also pictured is Tower 111 from

Richland Twp VFC (Allegheny 241) hosted a confined space rescue class at property owned by Richland Water. Students learned safety and rescue scenarios and introduced to new equipment. We introduced companies to our mobile ventilation unit and our new Pelsue confined space rescue system we acquired through ACT 13 funding.

05/06/2026

We recently teamed up with Lower Burrell VFC No. 1 and the City of Lower Burrell Police Department at the Burrell High School to show equipment and apparatus to pre-schoolers.

We were happy to participate with the district and our mutual aid.

04/15/2026

7 incidents in under 24 hours, 5 of which were Brush Fires progressed by the wind and dry conditions. We want to thank our mutual aid partners, those we assist and those who assist us for all help is appreciated including our own public works.

04/01/2026

04/01/2026

Shout out to our mutual aid partnership with West Leechburg Volunteer Fire Department

Recently we have helped each other with non-emergency activities and training involving wrapping up a Mod 4 Interior Class at Armstrong Fire School and a Hazardous Materials Operations refresher.

We even included some mutual training on our Vent Unit and Down FF CPR.

Thank You for your support and relationship Company 52

03/27/2026

03/16/2026

The recent storm and day to day call volume brought us 31 incidents, a majority of which occurred within a 8 hour period Friday night into Saturday.

• 12 Utility affected Incidents
• 2 Possible Structure Fires
• 10 Tree Down (no utilities affected)
• 2 Motor Vehicle Accidents
• 2 Brush Fires
• 3 Multiple Alarm Brush Fires

A thank you to all of our mutual aid support and to Iselin/West Lebanon VFC (310) for covering and aiding incidents from our station, while we were handling other incidents.

Since 12/1/25, our members have responded to 157 calls for service

03/10/2026

Storms, Dry Weather, Warm Weather; on top of week to week activities have put us over 124 incident responses since 12/1/25.

Interested in joining? We welcome the help!

03/03/2026

This weekends nice weather brought windy conditions that dried out vegetation and lost control of a few recreational fires. Please take the weather conditions into consideration when burning.

An outdoor fire also got smoke into a commercial business in Salem Twp setting off the fire alarms in the building. Vent 115 assisted by using a loading dock to access and force fresh air to ventilate the building overnight.

Since 12/1/25, our members have responded to 106 calls for service.

02/14/2026

Tanker 115 responded on the 1st alarm of a 2 alarm fire aiding Logans Ferry Heights Volunteer Fire Department. Crews operated onscene for a few hours with the help of many mutual aid departments, until being released.