This year members attended the York Beach Fire Department’s 124th Anniversary celebration. It began with a parade through York Beach and across Long Sands Beach up around the Nubble area of town and then back to the York Beach ball field for a traditional New England Firemen’s muster with a respectable six muster teams. York … Read More →
We want to recognize one more time the four newest certified firefighters on the York Village Fire Department. FF Ryan Michel, FF Mac Poulin, FF Adam Schoff and FF Adam Stone. These four men spent their own time to complete a 300 hour program to become certified interior firefighters for the Town of York. The … Read More →
Tonight We drilled on firefighter rescue and R.I.T. skills. R.I.T. stands for Rapid Intervention Team. At every fire where firefighters are committed to fighting the fire from inside the building (interior attack) a R.I.T. team must be standing by outside the building. These firefighters MUST be proficient with advanced firefighting, search and rescue and other … Read More →
We are proud to announce another graduate of the Firefighter 1 & 2 class, Adam Stone. FF Stone joined the York Village Fire Department earlier this year and has spent around 300 hours in this class. We are extremely grateful to have such a large membership of volunteer firefighters, especially a large group who are fully … Read More →
Firefighters from York Village trained on forcible entry using the Friction Force Door loaned my the Maine Fire Service Institute. With the forcible entry prop comes other props that allow firefighters to be proficient with using other forcible entry tools allowing us to be more efficient at our job when seconds count. Here in the … Read More →
shortly after dinner time both fire departments were toned out to respond to 19 Long Beach Ave. for a report of a fire in the wall. The homeowner reported they noticed a section of wall in the kitchen felt very hot. On arrival companies found the section of interior partition hot enough to open up … Read More →
Tonight for Thursday night training Companies drilled on rural water supply tactics. Crews used tank trucks and porta-tanks set up. Mutual aid tankers from York Beach and Kittery Point assisted our own tanker with keeping the porta tanks full while Engine 4 drafted and attempted to maintain a 750 gallon per minute fire flow. At … Read More →
York Village Fire wishes to congratulate our two newest Firefighter I and II certified firefighters. Mac Poulin and Ryan Michel graduated last night after completing the nearly 300 hour program which began November 5, 2013. We would also like to extend our congratulations to York Beach Fire/Rescue firefighter Sean P. Graham along with the rest … Read More →