Overnight Spring City's Liberty Fire Company was dispatched to the Park Spring Apartments for an electrical fire inside and upon arriving crews investigating discovered an active fire behind the walls of the apartment. The assignment was upgraded to a building fire response bringing additional units from Royersford, Limerick, Ridge, Valley Forge, Kimberton and Phoenixville to assist. Ladder 98 was ... (Full Story & Photos)

Monday evening's weekly training brought together Royersford, Black Rock, Collegeville, Trappe, and Upper Providence to hone their skills and processes around hose evolutions. These organizations commonly work together in Upper Providence Township on large scale incidents which may bring a multi-agency response such as a building fire. Interagency trainings reinforce a skills and operations which ... (Full Story & Photos)

Saturday morning members from Royersford Fire Department were in attendance as agencies from all over southeastern Pennsylvania and beyond celebrated the life and sacrifice of Firefighter Sean DeMuynck. In addition to his love of the fire service he was an active Emergency Medical Technician recently obtaining his certification after attending Good Fellowship Ambulance and EMS Training Institute.

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During the overnight hours Engine 98 was requested to assist Ridge Fire Company in West Vincent Township in Chester County. Units from Chester, Montgomery, and Berks Counties worked collectively to track down the fire which appeared to be electrical in nature. Engine 98 returned to Royersford after being released by command.... (Full Story & Photos)

July kicked off on a positive note with our EMS Division receiving word of securing a grant through the Pennsylvania EMS Provider Foundation and Highmark, Inc. The grant application closed mid-May of this year with over 500 applications totaling over $87 million in requests. Friendship Ambulance is proud to announce our application was selected as a recipient of funds totaling $22,267 which will go ... (Full Story & Photos)

If you were on 1st Avenue Monday night you may have seen a lot of activity. All of the fire agencies covering Upper Providence Township got together to practice relay pumping.

While we don't use it very often, sometimes when a water supply is not near a fire, Large Diameter Hose (LDH) is used with multiple pumpers (akak Engines) in order to maintain pressure supplying water to the fire scene. In ... (Full Story & Photos)

Apparatus from Royersford and Upper Providence Township were dispatched to the intersection of Roboda Boulevard and Springertown Road for a rescue. Reports indicated a lawn mower had overturned into a ditch trapping the operator underneath the machine. Units descended on the area with Fire and EMS working hand-in-hand to develop an extrication and treatment plan with included RFD & UPT Medical Director ... (Full Story & Photos)

In the early morning hours of Thursday, Ladder 98 was dispatched to standby at Liberty Fire Company, Chester Station 63, while they attended to a barn fire in East Vincent . After being in Station 63 for over an hour and a half Ladder 98 was released and returned to Royersford.... (Full Story & Photos)