An extra special Thank You to the voters of York for approving both our annual budget, and the purchase of the Pumper tanker to replace two aging pieces of fire apparatus with one state of the art modern truck that will fulfill both functions. Currently we have a tanker for firefighting in rural (non-hydrant district) … Read More →
York Village firefighters and some of their family members participated in the Kittery Fire annual 5k road race this morning. They were the only firefighter team to sign up. FF Ben Palavos (second from right) placed third in the firefighter category. Great Job, guys!!!!!
York Village firefighters were heavily engaged at this large fire in Eliot for 21 hours. Crews arrived around 1300 hours on May 10 and were not released until 1000hrs on May 11. This fire was in a recycling facility and was very deep seated requiring heavy equipment to physically move the piles of burning garbage … Read More →
York Village Fire Department regrets to announce the passing of FF Marvin Collins. Marvin was a very special person and a man of few words. Marvin has been a member of our department since 2003. He has previously been a member of the Newry and Bethel, Maine Fire Departments. Marv has served our department in … Read More →
100 years ago in the New York Times, this is the story that was published about the previous night’s fire. Interesting to note that little York, Maine received a blurb in a newspaper as large as the New York Times!!
On today’s date 100 years ago, January 26, 1916 a tragedy struck the Town of York, Maine. Just prior to 7pm caretaker Charles Perkins discovered a fire at the Marshall House Hotel in York Harbor on Stage Neck Point. He quickly summoned the fire department, which at the time was only the York Beach fire … Read More →
Today York Village Fire celebrated it’s 99th birthday. This year marks our 99th year in business since the disastrous fire at the Marshall House on Stage Neck Point in 1916. We played host to a small number of out of town departments as our parade was a bit smaller than it usually is, no doubt, … Read More →
Late in the evening on August 3, York Dispatch began recieving calls for a structure fire at the Realty Building at 240 York St. This is a large brick building right in the center of York Village. Rick’s restaurant and a laundromat occupy the basement and other businesses occupy the first floor. The second and … Read More →
Tonight members drilled on large stream appliances. As with most fire departments in the area we aren’t seeing a lot of fire duty, but when we do fight fire we typically use 1 3/4″ hose as our mainstay. The 1 3/4″ hose is a very capable hose selection, but it doesn’t work for all fires. … Read More →
Today we carried on the annual tradion of marching in the annual York Memorial Day parade. This is a big event for York Village Fire and we take great pride in putting our Class A uniforms on and marching up York St. Through York Village. This year York Village Fire fielded 32 marching members.