Minquas Fire Company EMS and Mazi Adoption and Family Services Partner to Host Community Car Seat Check Event
Downingtown, PA — Minquas Fire Company EMS is proud to partner with Mazi Adoption and Family Services to host a Community Car Seat Check in celebration of EMS Week and Foster Care Awareness Month. This family-friendly event will take place on Friday, May 23, 2025, from ... (Full Story)
Engine 46-2 and Air 46 assisted West Whiteland Fire Company on a residential fire in West Whiteland Township. Crews assisted with fire attack and filling air cylinders.
Thomas E. “Pop-Pop” Lee, Jr., 86, of Downingtown, passed away on Saturday, March 29, 2025, at his home in Simpson Meadows, Downingtown, with his family by his side.
He was the beloved husband of the late Barbara Ann Lee who passed away in 1997. Born in West Chester and raised in the West Ward of Downingtown, he was the son of the late Thomas E. Lee, Sr. and Dorothy (Phillips) Lee.
Two years ago the process started to purchase two new engines for the Downingtown Fire Department to replace the aging engines in our fleet. After viewing a few different engines from Chester County and Lancaster County an engine spec was established that took into consideration our response area and neighboring jurisdictions. The low roof will make it ... (Full Story & Photos)
Yesterday evening Engine 46-2 was dispatched along with Thorndale Fire Company for a vehicle fire in Caln Township. Deputy 38 arrived first to the scene with a report of a well involved vehicle. Engine 46-2 stretched a hose line and began to extinguish the fire. The fire was quickly brought under control. Engine 38 also assisted onscene.... (Full Story & Photos)
This evening two of our members graduated from the Fall 2024 Chester County Public Safety Training Campus Firefighter I Program. This intensive 188-hour program teaches candidates the basics of firefighting. Candidates spent nights and weekends learning fire attack, ladder raises, ventilation, victim searches, CPR/AED and First Aid, Narcan administration, ropes and knots, and many more topics.
Downingtown Fire Department and Downingtown Borough representatives are currently at Pierce Manufacturing in the cold Appleton, Wisconsin. The goal for this trip is to provide the final inspection of the borough’s (2) identical engines. The first engine will be housed at the Alert Fire Company No.1, replacing the current 1998 Spartan/R.D. Murray Pumper, Engine 45. The second Engine will be housed ... (Full Story & Photos)
Just before 1:30pm the Downingtown Fire Department was alerted to assist Lionville Fire Company and surrounding mutual aid for a residential fire in Uwchlan Township. Engine 46-2 and Air 46 made the response. Engine 46-2 arrived with Engine 6-1 and Ladder 6 and began fire attack on the second floor of the house.
After clearing the house fire and cleaning up at station Downingtown Fire Department ... (Full Story & Photos)
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