Penn Hills Fire Service
The Penn Hills Volunteer Fire Service was started in the Lincoln Park Community of Penn Hills Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania in the 1920s.
The Penn Hills Firefighters operate out of seven stations, spread throughout the Municipality of Penn Hills and are 100% volunteer. The volunteer firefighters are alerted through pagers and respond to various types of emergencies, including structure, vehicle, brush, and gas fires, odor investigations, vehicle, water and technical rescues, and other public assist calls.
Some stations are hosts to a Junior Firefighter program, allowing students 16 years and older, or 14 years or older in some stations, to participate in training and responding to assist at scenes. Firefighters respond to over 1800 incidents per year. Penn Hills fire units have assisted neighboring communities Verona (285), Wilkins (302, 303, 304), Churchill (122), Oakmont (216), Wilkinsburg (305), the City of Pittsburgh, Plum (233, 234, 235, 236), and Monroeville (192, 193, 194, 195, 196). Most firefighters meet weekly to train.
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—William Penn (1644–1718)
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Bosom’d in yon green hills alone—
A secret nook in a pleasant land,”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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—David Webb Peoples, U.S. screenwriter, and Ridley Scott. Roy Batty, Blade Runner, final words before dying—as an android he had a built-in life span that expired (1982)
“The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men to thinking how certain civilizing benefits, now only enjoyed by the opulent, can be enjoyed by all.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)