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The Fame Fire Co. No. 3 is one of three 100% volunteer fire stations that make up the West Chester Fire Department. As part of the WCFD, the Fame Fire Co. No. 3 provides fire and rescue services to the Borough of West Chester and all, or portions of, the following Chester County townships; Birmingham, East Bradford, Thornbury, West Goshen, and Westtown.

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Fame Fire Company Active Firefighters Have Reached 100% Pennsylvania State Certification!!! 

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Fame Fire Company's 2nd Annual Art Show

October 11, 2008 - 7 PM 

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Recent News

Electrical Fire Stumped By Sprinkler System In West Chester

September 27th 2008

West Chester Fire units on scene at the Kids First Center on E. Marshall St for an electrical fire on the third floor. Arriving crews found the sprinkler system activated and a smoke condition. Units were on scene for approx. one hour.

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Fame Fire Company Active Firefighters Have Reached 100% Pennsylvania State Certification!!! 

  Fame Fire Company has become the FIRST (1st) All-Volunteer Fire Company in Chester County and the fifth (5th) all-volunteer fire company in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to achieve 100% state certification in the voluntary state certification program.  The 49 Active Firefighters have participated in a Voluntary Pennsylvania State Certification Process following guidelines from the National Fire Protection Association, and recently achieved 100% fire professional certification.

 To achieve this goal, in 2007 the 49 active firefighters attended numerous training classes in firefighting, rescue and special hazards that totaled more than 10,000 hours in preparation for the written and practical skills competency validation of the National Firefighter Standards.

Fame Fire Company is proud to be the first All-Volunteer Fire Department in Chester County and the 5th out of 2,500 fire departments to receive 100% certification.  Fame is the 29th overall fire department out of 466 other departments that are participating in the certification process.

W.C.F.D. Mixes It Up On The Field

Monday, September 1st 2008

Fame was challenged to a football game on Labor Day by our fellow brothers at the Goodwill Fire Company at Henderson High School. Both companies showed up in full force to play, rehab, or cheer on the teams as they played in the hot sunshine. Fame ran out of time to score one final touchdown to win the game, and both teams left the field with the score tied 21-21. (Battalion 105. If you don't know, don't ask!)

 

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Married Team Wins 2008 Riggtown Games!

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

A beautiful day for the 9th Annual Riggtown Games at Green Field. The Single Team came out strong in the early innings. But, the married men rallied in the late innings to pull ahead, and win 21-17. Key hits by Bill Cummings, Mike McCarthy, and Mike McDonald in the 6th clinched the victory for the married men. Afterward, everyone enjoyed a good time back at  the Fame. The Married Team now lead the overall series 5-4 in the 9 years of the games.              

Fame Members Become Rescue Tech Certified

August 23rd, 2008

15 members of the Fame Fire Company # 3 and several Chester County Instructors attended a 52 hour Rescue Technician prep class and were certified to the National Pro Board “Rescue Technician – Vehicle & General Machinery” level. Training was conducted by Bucks County Community College.

 

West Chester Fire "Christens" New Burn Building at Fire Training Center

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

  

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Rescue 53 Assists Conshohocken on Massive Apartment Complex Fire

Wednesday August 13th/ Thursday August 14th, 2008

             

(Pic1 courtesy of 6abc.com: Fire at it's height in Conshohocken. Pic 2 courtesy of Richard Clark: Fame with other Chester County companies staging in a nearby parking lot at the scene of the fire.)

 Rescue 53 was added as part of a Chester County "Strike Team" to assist the Conshohocken Fire Department in Montgomery County on a massive apartment complex fire which began on Wednesday, August 13th. The fire started in an apartment under construction, and rapidly spread to two additional occupied apartment buildings. The fire eventually went to eight alarms, and the Chester County units responded at approximately 5AM Thursday, August 14th, and were on the scene on Conshohocken till 12PM that day. Additional units responding on the Strike Team were from Downingtown, West Bradford, Parkesburg, Oxford, Longwood, East Whiteland, and Honey Brook. Chester County companies due on the box alarms for Conshohocken included Valley Forge, Malvern, Berwyn, and Kimberton as well as the County Haz Mat Team.

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Accident in West Chester Borough

August 5th 2008

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Major Gas Leak Shuts Down Parts of West Chester Borough.

July 25th, 2008

Fame with Goodwill, and First West Chester responded to the 100 block of E. Miner St Friday morning at around 9:30AM to a report of a gas leak outside. Arriving units found that a contractor hit a rather large high pressure gas line, and gas was quickly entering the houses in the area. Seeing that this was a large leak, Chief 53 (McCarthy) quickly called for additional resources from surrounding companies, and fire police to shut down several streets in West Chester. Fire crews were ordered to evacuate everyone within a two block radius of the leak. PECO arrived, and clamped the leak within an hour. Fire units remained on scene checking houses in the area with gas meters to monitor the air, and ventilate if needed. Fire units cleared the scene at approx. 2:30 PM. Units from Goshen, Kennett Square, East Whiteland, West Whiteland, West Bradford, Newtown Square, Downingtown, Paoli, Uwchlan Ambulance, Delaware County Canteen 47, Good Fellowship, Medic 91, and Chester County Comm 1 were either on scene at the incident, or standing by at one of the three West Chester Companies. (Sorry if we missed your company) 

 

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Fame Assists Goshen and West Whiteland on Rt. 202 Accident

July 23rd 2008

  

(Photos by Mike McCarthy)

An Allied Waste trash truck skidded off of Rt. 202 and crashed just north of King road in West Whiteland Wednesday, July 23rd. Goshen, and West Whiteland Fire Companies were dispatched.  Incoming units upon arrival found the truck in a cloud of heavy smoke. Thinking the truck could be on fire, Tanker 53 was added to the call for extra water. Once the smoke cleared, crews found the truck head first into heavy brush with the driver still trapped in the truck. Chief 54 (Everhart) called for Rescue 53 to assist with the extrication. The initial assignment for Fame's Rescue crew was to make an attempt to winch the truck away from the brush, but that plan was scrapped when crews from Goshen, West Whiteland, and East Whiteland (Sta. 5) were able to quickly remove the heavy brush surrounding the truck, and extracted the driver. Good Fellowship, and Medic 91 were also on the scene to assist with patient care. Fame units were on scene for about one hour and thirty minutes. Police are investigating what caused the truck to crash.

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