Firefighters from the West Grove Fire Company rescued three adorable ducklings in London Grove Township on Saturday afternoon.
Employees of the Walgreens store on Route 41 at Old Baltimore Pike called the 911 Center and reported that three ducklings had fallen into a storm drain. The WGFC responded with Ladder 22 and the fire police.
Firefighter removed the storm drain cover and pulled three ... (Full Story & Photos)
Last week, the West Grove Fire Company helped students at the Avon Grove Fred S. Engle Middle School with with a science/physics experiment.
Each year, 8th grade students have to make a container that protects a raw egg when dropped from various heights. If the project survived the previous in-school drops, students can have their project dropped from a height of about 80 feet from atop the WGFC ... (Full Story & Photos)
Science experiments were dropped from the top of Ladder 22 at the Engle Middle School recently.
Jake Barnes of Medic 94,
Lisa Glass of the WGFC, Michelle Robinson with Brandywine River Valley Home Health & Hospice; and
PJ Mullin of State Farm gave safety presentations recently at Luther House in Penn Township.
Community safety education is one of the major outreach programs of the West Grove Fire Company, in schools for students and also for adults as well. Over the last month, the WGFC has partnered with Medic 94, Brandywine River Valley Home Health & Hospice, and a local State Farm Insurance broker to deliver safety education at the Luther House in Penn Township.
Two West Grove Fire Company volunteers graduated yesterday from an area program designed to prepare high school students for careers in public service. Two others were recognized for finishing an EMS program.
WGFC's Morgan Yingling and Dylan Osborne graduated from the Octorara Homeland Security & Protective Services Academy (OHSPSA) in front of family, friends, and officers of the WGFC at ceremonies ... (Full Story & Photos)
Several WGFC volunteers completed programs at the Octorara Homeland Security & Protective Services Academy graduation this week.
WGFC EMS was named Distinguished EMS Service of the Year for 2022 at Wednesday night's Annual Chester County EMS Awards banquet.
At the annual awards banquet of the Chester County EMS Council held on Wednesday evening, the West Grove Fire Company was recognized as the Distinguished EMS Service of the Year. Also, several WGFC EMS personnel were recognized for a clinical save.
The annual awards banquet was held in Kennett Square as part of the EMS Week Celebration. More than 250 EMS first responders, service leaders, and various ... (Full Story & Photos)
May 21-27 is National EMS Week, a time when the nation recognizes the work of first responders in emergency medical services (EMS).
At the West Grove Fire Company, we are exceptionally proud of the EMTs that staff our ambulances 24 hours each day, and for the compassionate care they provide to patients thousands of times each year. The WGFC has an amazing team of career and volunteer EMTs who respond ... (Full Story & Photos)
During this EMS Week, we celebrate the EMTs who staff our ambulances, and thank them for their compassion, professionalism, and commitment.
WGFC assisted Oxford on this Pugh Road house fire in East Nottingham Township.
Fire companies from across Chester, Lancaster and Cecil Counties worked to extinguish a house fire in East Nottingham Township on Monday evening. The farm house was a near total loss.
West Grove firefighters were just getting back to their stations after Monday evening training around 8:30pm when pagers sounded for a house fire with the Union Fire Company of Oxford 21 on Pugh Road. The reporting ... (Full Story & Photos)
West Grove firefighters were called to join efforts to contain a blaze at a historic building on Elkton's Main Street Sunday evening.
The large blaze brought firefighters from across Chester, Cecil and New Castle Counties to a 3-alarm fire at Elkton's historic Howard Hotel Building. The dispatch for the WGFC was for a ladder and engine at just before 6pm, with Engine 22-2 and Ladder 22 responding. ... (Full Story & Photos)
Heavy fire greeted firefighters on W. Main Street, Elkton for this 3-alarm blaze. WGFC's Ladder 22 and Engine 22-2 were on scene.
