Our thanks to the following local businesses who contributed door prizes that were given out during the Awards Banquet on April 13th:
The Alpha Fire Company held its annual awards banquet tonight at the Ramada Inn. Service awards for 2012 were: Five Years of Service Andrew Richards Lyle Domico III John Smoyer Svend Pedersen Steve Bair Tim Knisely Ten Years of Service Julie Matics Jason Troup Fifteen Years of Service Brian Bittner Andrew Prestia Twenty Years of Service Dave Felice Francis “Rusty”Schreiner Twenty-Five Years of Service Shawn Kauffman Jeff Martin Forty Years of Service Carmine Prestia, Jr. Gerald Ross Most Improved Firefighter Don Madden Ronald F. Ross…
At 0715 hours today, the Alpha Fire Company was dispatched to an unknown outside fire near the National Recreation area off of Circleville Road in Patton Township. Chief Yocum, Assistant Chief Kauffman and Engine Captain DeArmitt all arrived on scene confirming a wild land fire. Engine 514, Tanker 520, and Utility 522 arrived with the Kubota Quick Response Vehcile (539) in tow. Crews were put to work raking fire lines and extinguishing the fire. The Alpha Fire Company would like to thank the Boalsburg Fire…
Monday, March 25th, 2013 members of the Alpha Fire Company toured the East Campus Power Plant at Penn State University. The plant is off of Porter Road in College Township. Paul Moser, Superintendent of Steam Services conducted the tour through the plant and around the adjacent buildings. The tour was actually a training session that helps familiarize members with industrial sites like the power plant, the layout of the building, locations of firefighting aids like extinguishers and hydrants, and any special risks that might be…
At approximately 9:45 p.m. on Friday, 3/22/2013, the Alpha Fire Police were dispatched to East College Ave. near Elmwood Street for a car/pedestrian accident. A separate car/pedestrian accident, approx. 5 hours later, occurred on North Atherton St. at the Mitchell Ave. intersection. Fire Police officers assisted State College Police with traffic control around the accident scenes.
While Penn State students enjoy spring break, members of the Alpha Fire Company extinguished a Park Forest chimney fire. At 0900 AM on Sunday morning, crews responded to a reported chimney fire with smoke from the exterior wall along the chimney. Truck 517 arrivied to find a working chimney fire with possible extension. Engine 514 and Truck 517 worked the interior while Engine 510 and Quint 527 extinquished the wood burner and chimney fire. While the flue was cracked midway up, no extension to the…
During a snow storm on Tuesday evening Engine 510 was first in on an aircraft emergency at University Park Airport. Units were dispatched for a passenger aircraft with 16 people on board reporting smoke in the cabin. The aircraft landed and evacuated without incident. Airport firefighters investigated and disconnected the planes power supplies. Dispatched on the level 4 aircraft emergency to assist UPA Fire Units were the Alpha, Bellefonte, Milesburg and Pleasant Gap Fire Units; Penn State Haz Mat; Centre Lifelink, University and Mount Nittany EMS…
The normally busy State Patty’s Day weekend has a slightly different twist this year. The social media driven party weekend was established six years ago when spring break fell on St. Patrick’s Day. Ever since, Penn State students have annually established a State Patty’s Day weekend at Penn State. This year over thirty bars have agreed to close on Saturday to help curb alcohol fueled incidents in the community. However, students have moved parties from the bars to the apartments. The increased risk of fires…
Just before Noon on Thursday, February 21st, a traffic accident at the intersection of East College Avenue and Houserville Road took out the traffic signal causing major traffic problems at the busy College Township intersection. Alpha Fire Police assisted with traffic control while township staff attempted to repair the signal. While Fire Police worked the intersection, an unrelated power outage caused traffic signals on the South Atherton Street corridoor to be out. Approximately eight signals between State College Borough and Harris Township were inoperable for two hours….
Today, Alpha Fire Co. was honored to host Four Diamonds families at the Borough Station. Every year Alpha Fire Co. strives to participate in THON by giving station tours, bucket rides and fire safety presentations to children and their parents. This year was no different as the Alpha’s woke up bright and early to ready the station for the guests. Kids and parents got to try on gear, flow some water and ride in the bucket of Tower 517. Everyone had a great time. Go…