The area community purchased more than 600 tickets for a delicious chicken barbeque meal held Saturday at the Avondale station to benefit the fire company.
A crew of about 30 first responders began cooking at 6am Saturday morning. More than 700 chicken quarters were slow cooked on massive cookers, seasoned and turned by the cooking crew. Meals included chicken, a four-bean salad, mushroom salad, ... (Full Story & Photos)
Crews worked from 6am until mid-afternoon cooking barbeque chicken as part of a fundraiser to support SCCFR.
Crews from West Grove and Oxford assisted Singerly of Elkton on this house fire near the state line below Lewisville. (Thanks to Oxford for this photo)
Units from Chester and New Castle Counties were called to provide mutual aid to the Singerly Fire Company of Elkton at a fire near Lewisville in a residence at 630pm Saturday evening. The call was just south of the PA-Maryland border off of Route 841/MD213.
West Grove sent Engine 22-1 and Tanker 22 to the house fire, with reports of a bedroom on the second floor fully involved. Arriving Elkton ... (Full Story & Photos)
Firefighters from West Grove and Avondale conducted a shared training exercise focusing on engine company operations at the New London station Monday evening.
First arriving engine companies have a critical assignment at fires: size up the scene, quickly deploy handlines, and move with purpose to get water on the fire as soon as possible. Training hones those skills, especially helping firefighters ... (Full Story & Photos)
Crews ready to make entry into the training trailer at the New London station during engine operations training.
WGFC firefighters deploy a handline to prevent a shed and tree fire from damaging a residence in London Grove Township.
Firefighters from the West Grove Fire Company responded to reports of a shed fire Saturday in the Avon Wheel Estates neighborhood of London Grove Township. A fully involved shed fire had spread to a large tree and fire was threatening an adjacent residence.
Engine 22-1 arrived and laid in from a nearby hydrant, with crews quickly deploying an 1-3/4" attack line. With fire fueled by a reported gas ... (Full Story & Photos)
First responders from the West Grove Fire Company participated in two events Friday, commemorating the 25th anniversary of September 11.
At the Avondale firehouse, first responders from the WGFC, Avondale Fire Company, Kennett Regional Fire Department, Medic 94, PA State Police, and the Southern Chester County Regional Police took a moment of remembrance and reflection at the 9-11 Memorial Garden ... (Full Story & Photos)
First responders reflect on the 25th anniversary of 9-11 at the Memorial Garden at the Avondale station.
Engine 22-2 was a student favorite at the annual welcome back to school event at the Penn London School Friday evening.
Students were welcomed back to the Penn London Elementary School along with the West Grove Fire Company.
First responders were on hand with fire prevention materials and apparatus tours, engaging with hundreds of students and parents. Our thanks to the Avon Grove PTA for the invitation to this popular, annual event. ... (Full Story & Photos)
It may surprise you to learn that the West Grove Fire Company uses more than 16,000 feet of hose ranging from the 1" forestry lines up to our 5" large diameter supply hose. That’s about three miles of hose which is carried on the WGFC fleet: 1 Brush unit, 3 Engines, 1 Squad, and a Tanker, each carrying a wide variety of fire attack and water supply hose (along with lots of spare hose at each of the ... (Full Story & Photos)
WGFC has completed annual testing of 16,000 feet of various size hose used for fighting fires and moving water.
This generator's exhaust was pushing back into the corner of this home, with carbon monoxide gas getting into the residence. Two CO alarm calls Wednesday morning for the WGFC were generator-exhaust related.
Tuesday night's thunderstorms created power outages, wires down, and lightning strikes that kept the fire company busy at calls across our area, and into Delaware and Cecil Counties.
With the extended power outage comes call for CO Alarms -- there were two of those calls simultaneously early Wednesday morning. These CO alarm calls are typically the result of exhaust from portable generators leaking ... (Full Story & Photos)
