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The West Ridge
Fire Department is a fully volunteer
department that is located in the southwestern Millcreek Township, a western
suburb of Erie, Pennsylvania. Currently, Millcreek Township is the 2nd
biggest municipality in Erie County with a population of around 53,000.
The West Ridge Fire Department
has been an all volunteer fire department since 1940. For several
years, WRFD has been one of the busiest fire companies in Millcreek Township's . This
can be attributed to WRFD protected roughly around 40% of Millcreek
Township. The West Ridge Fire Department
is a full service fire department. The services provided by WRFD are
fire protection, rescue, hazmat, emergency medical services, public
relations, fire prevention and several special service requests. West Ridge
FD operates from two station. Currently, the apparatus fleet
consists of a chief's vehicle, two engines, an tower ladder, an air/light
truck and an utility truck. The West Ridge Fire Department
is currently dispatch by Erie County Communications.
The first due district is
a suburban setting. In our district, you will find highways, schools of all
levels, several industrial facilities, residents, nursing facilities,
several shopping plazas, hotels, few high rises and other miscellaneous
buildings. When responding to mutual aid first due districts, you will
find a major shopping district, 2 interstate freeways, several nursing
facilities, several major traffic ways, hotels and several other types of
structures.
In Millcreek Township, you will
find 4 all volunteer fire departments. These fire departments are
West
Lake,
Kearsarge,
Belle Valley and West Ridge. For several
years, all 4 departments have been acting on mutual and automatic mutual aid
dispatches and requests.
Back in 1999, the
4 fire
departments along with the
Lake Shore
Fire Department came together and formed Millcreek Paramedics Service.
Millcreek Paramedics Service (MPS) is a career ALS ambulance service that
covers Millcreek Township and surrounding districts when requested.
Since WRFD is an all volunteer
fire department, we are always looking for new members. If you would
like additional information on how to join, you can stop by either fire
station whenever a member is at the station or on Monday evenings at 7pm.
The classes of membership are firefighter, junior firefighter, fire police
or auxiliary.
Thank you for visiting our
website. On this website, you will find a lot of information about the
West Ridge Fire Department.
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