North Warren Volunteer Fire Department

Welcome to the official website of the North Warren Volunteer Fire Department.
Take a look around, and be sure to view our upcoming events and recent calls.

Community News

Allegheny River Cleanup

Help Get Dirty Jobs to Warren County!

In its fourth year, the Allegheny River Clean-Up is scheduled to get dirty and pull trash out of the waterways on September 15-22, 2012.To highlight our community and the importance of our river, the organization is trying to get Mike Rowe of the Discovery Channel’s “Dirty Jobs” show to join the crews and get dirty for a good cause!To make this happen, WE NEED YOUR HELP! Please go here and access the Discovery Channel’s discussion forum to place a comment and encourage Mike to come to Warren! The more people and comments we can get on the forum, the greater our chances are to bring the show to Warren! Thanks for your support and we hope to see you in September, for more information go to www.alleghenyrivercleanup.com

Recent Pics of Training.

This year so far NW has participated in mutual aid training with Glade VFD at a Wildland burn and structural burn and Russell with in house training. Other pics include NW flow testing different hose diameters for our monitors this year as well.

: Monitoring Fire Conditions

Recent Calls

April Alarms

: C. Riggle, Wadlow, Mintzer, Cushner

: Mintzer

: Day 2, Crews securing line and mopping up

: Mead, Not doing anything.

North Warren was dispatched for 5 alarms in the month of April. One standby for WFD. NW emptied the station to assist at a structure fire in Lander with several other departments from PA and NY. A strike team was also requested to Dutchman Run in Clarendon to a large wildfire. 2 days and 141 personnel hours were logged by NW crews on Clarendon’s fire. Crews from multiple forestry districts throughout the state and ANF assisted Clarendon.

March Alarms

11 calls rounded out the month. Of the 11 there were 3 MVA’s, 2 Structure Fires, 2 Brush Fires, 1 AFA. NW Rescue assisted Glade VFD with one accident with entrapment. Landing Zones were set up to assist Emergycare and Starbrick. An engine was requested for a structure fire in Clarendon for ventilation and overhaul. A week later Sugar Grove requested an engine company to assist with overhaul. Overall, mutual aid was provided for several different companies and different capacities to Russell, Glade, Emergycare, Starbrick, Clarendon, Sugar Grove, and a standby for Youngsville.