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Congrats Aaron and Lindsey on your Wedding!!!

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  • December 31, 2011
Manheim Fire Department would like to wish Aaron and Lindsey many years of Happiness!!!

Holiday Tree Safety. Help Prevent Holiday Fires

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  • December 17, 2011
About 3,500 Americans die each year in fires and about 18,300 are injured. Special fire safety precautions need to be taken when keeping a live tree in the house. When selecting your tree, the needles should be green and hard to pull back from th...

South Central Alert

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  • November 22, 2011
SOUTH CENTRAL ALERT       On Tuesday, November 15, the Lancaster County Board of Commissioners and Commissioners from other Counties unveiled South Central Alert.  This is an eight County regional mass notification system to be used to notify the ...

Change Your Clock, Change Your Batteries!!!!

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  • November 5, 2011
Manheim Fire Department would like to remind residents about changing your smoke Detector Batteries when changing your clocks this weekend.

Members complete Truck 2 Certification

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  • October 18, 2011
On Saturday, October 15th members from Manheim, Penryn, and Mt Joy Fire Companies completed the 16 hour Truck Co. 2 Operations class through Bucks County Comm. College. The 1st 8 hours of the class was classroom instruction held and the Manh...

Rescue attends Open House and Apparatus Dedication @ E-town Fire Co. Sta. 7-4

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  • October 10, 2011
On Saturday, October 8th, 3 members loaded up on Rescue 2-6 and headed up to Elizabethtown to Attend a Open House and Apparatus dedication at Friendship Fire Co. Sta. 7-4 of Elizabethtown. Sta. 7-4 has placed into service a 2010 Sutphe...

Members participate in Firemen Competition at Manheim Farm Show

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  • October 10, 2011
Members participated in the Firemen's Competition that was held on Monday, Oct. 3 at the Manheim Farm Show. Member's that participated were Asst. Chief Dave Johnson, Firefighter Seth Gantz, Firefighter Duane Ober, Firefighter Dan Reif, Firef...

LANCASTER COUNTY LODD

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  • September 26, 2011
  The officers and members of the Manheim Fire Department would like to extend our deepest heart felt condolances to the Brothers from the Lancaster Township Fire Department (6-6) and the Rankin family on the Loss of Lieutenant Keith Ra...

In our Thoughts and Prayers

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  • September 13, 2011
Manheim Fire Dept. would like to extend our utmost sympathy to the Geib Family on the passing of Mark Geib. Mark was very well known to many members of our department. Many members of our department have spent hours at Marks farm for our Mon...

Thank you from Manheim Fire Department

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  • September 12, 2011
On behalf of the Manheim Fire Department, I would like send a sincere thank you to all the department’s from around Lancaster County along with some departments from Chester County and Lebanon County that assisted us through the flooding in our ar...

09/11 We Will Never Forget!!

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  • September 12, 2011

Incident Log for 08/29 - 09/04

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  • September 5, 2011

Manheim Fire Department had 7 requests for service from 08/29 - 09/04. They are as follows:

Incident Log for 08/22 - 08/28

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  • August 30, 2011

Manheim Fire Department had 17 requests for service from 08/22 – 08/28. They are as follows:

Members complete Truck 1 class

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  • August 27, 2011
On Saturday, August 27th while the area was bracing for Hurricane Irene to arrive, some members spent the day at Lancaster County Public Safety Training Center for the last 8 hours of Truck 1. The instructors for the day was Jason Greer and ...

Silo Fire in 1st Due

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  • August 26, 2011
On Wednesday, August 24th @ 1338 Manheim Fire Department was dispatched for a Silo Fire @ 604 Old Line Rd. in Rapho Twp. Engine 26-1 with Lt. 3 (Kirchner) as OIC arrived on location to find smoke showing from a 70’ Silo along with a small am...

In Our Thoughts and Prayers

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  • August 23, 2011
Manheim Fire Dept. would like to extend our utmost sympathy to the Shire family, East Petersburg Fire Dept., Yoe Fire Dept. (York Co.), and to the York Area United Fire/Rescue (York Co.) on the passing of John Shire. John Shire is a retired Captai...

1st Annual Bucket Brigade 5K race held in conjunction with Annual Open House

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  • August 23, 2011
Manheim Fire Department held our 1st Annual Bucket Brigrade 5K Race on Saturday, August 20th in conjunction with our Annual Open House at our station. The day started out with the Race starting at 9AM. The competitors left the station headin...

Incident Log for 08/15 - 08/21

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  • August 22, 2011

Manheim Fire Department had 3 requests for service from 08/15 - 08/21. They are as follows:

Incident Log for 08/08 - 08/14

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  • August 16, 2011

Manheim Fire Department had 5 requests for service from 08/08 - 08/14. They are as follows:

 

Incident Log for 08/01 - 08/07

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  • August 8, 2011

Manheim Fire Department had 13 requests for service from 08/01 - 08/07. They are as follows:

Early Christmas present for Manheim Fire Department

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  • August 4, 2011
   On Monday, August 1st, Manheim Fire Department received an early Christmas present at our Monday night training. Mid Atlantic Fire and Air arrived with the department's new Scott Air-Pak NXG7 SCBA. The department purchased a total of 21 of...

Incident Log for 07/25 - 07/31

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  • August 3, 2011

Manheim Fire Co. had 7 requests for service from 07/25 - 07/31. They are as follows:

2011 Manheim Fire Department Fund Drive in Progress

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  • July 28, 2011
  Our 2011 Fund Drive is underway.   You should have recently received our 2011 Fund Drive Letter in the mail.  If you have already contributed, we would like to express our appreciation.  If you have yet to contribute, you may still support ...

Incident Log for 07/18 - 07/24

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  • July 25, 2011

Manheim Fire Department had 11 requests for service from 07/18 - 07/24. They are as follows:

Health Safety Tips During Current Heat Wave

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  • July 23, 2011
Heat Wave Burns the East Coast Record high temperatures are sweeping several states again this week, making heat safety a priority. To keep yourself and your family safe, follow these precautions. Stay hydra...

1st Annual 5k Bucket Brigade Race to benefit Manheim Fire Department

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  • July 21, 2011
Manheim Fire Department will be hosting our 1st Annual 5K Bucket Brigade Run in conjuction with our yearly open house. The event will be held at our station in Manheim on Saturday, August 20th. The race will start @ 9:00 am. Come out and sup...

Members attend Life Lion Landing Zone Safety Course

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  • July 21, 2011
On Monday, July 18th @ 1800, Members loaded up Engine 26-1, Rescue 26, and the Duty Vehicle and headed over to the Lancaster County Public Safety Training Center for our weekly training. LCPSTC was holding the Life Lion Landing Zone Safery C...

Incident Log for 07/11 - 07/18

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  • July 20, 2011

Manheim Fire Department had 8 requests for service from 07/11 - 07/18. They are as follows:

Dwelling fire in the Boro on 07/10

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  • July 16, 2011
  Station 26 @ 1850 hrs. was alerted for a dwelling fire at 44 S Hazel St in Manheim Boro. Chief 26-2(Johnson) went en route and was advised by LCWC that the caller is reporting seeing smoke from front window and having a odor of someth...

Incident Log for 07/04 - 07/10

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  • July 13, 2011

Manheim Fire Department had 11 requests for service from 07/04 - 07/10. They are as follows:

Incident Log for 06/27 - 07/03.

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  • July 5, 2011

Manheim Fire Department had 9 requests for service from 06/27 – 07/03. They are as follows:

In Our Thoughts...

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  • July 2, 2011
      The Officers and Firefighters of Manheim Fire Department wish to express our deepest sympathy to our Brothers and Sisters of the Berks County Sheriff's Department and the Spring Township Fire Department (Berks Co. 85) on...

Firework Safety for your July 4th Celebration

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  • July 1, 2011

National Council on Fireworks Safety Recommends "Common Sense" Safety Tips for the Fourth of July Season

Incident Log for 06/20 - 06/26

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  • June 28, 2011

Manheim Fire Department had 6 requests for service from 06/20 to 06/26. They are as follows:

06/13 Propane Tank Fire Training @ LCPSTC

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  • June 20, 2011
On Monday, June 13th, members loaded up Engine 26-1 and Squad 26 @ 1845 and headed over to Lancaster County Public Safety Training Center for our weekly training. We met up with Mastersonville Fire Co. and members did some joint training with the ...

Incident Log for 06/13 - 06/19

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  • June 20, 2011

Manheim Fire Co. had 4 requests for service from 06/13 to 06/19. They are as follows:

Incident Log for 06/06 - 06/12

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  • June 20, 2011

Manheim Fire Co. had 10 requests for service from 06/06 to 06/12. They are as follows:

06/06 Vehicle Rescue training with Mastersonville Fire Co.

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  • June 7, 2011
On Monday, June 6th for our weekly training, crews loaded up Rescue 26 and Engine 261 and headed up to Kreiser's Garage where we met up with Mastersonville Fire Co. for some vehicle rescue training. Kreiser's had 2 vehicles for us to tear ap...

MFD participates in the Manheim Memorial Day Parade

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  • June 7, 2011
On Monday, May 30, Manheim Fire Department members loaded up the appartus and headed to Manheim Memorial Park to line up and participate in the annual Manheim Memorial Day Parade. The parade started on Memorial Drive and the continued in E. ...

Incident Log for 05/30 - 06/05.

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  • June 7, 2011

Manheim Fire Co. had 10 requests for service from 05/30 to 06/05. They are as follows:

MFD hosts Traditions Training Forcible Entry Academy on June 4th

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  • June 6, 2011
    On Saturday, June 4th, Manheim Fire Department hosted a Forcible Entry Academy put on by Traditions Training. The class consisted of 8 hours of all hands-on instruction. The class started out with going over the tools that fire depar...

Manheim Fire Department participates in Manheim "Market on the Square"

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  • May 31, 2011
On Saturady, May 14th, Manheim Fire Department participated in the Annual Trike Race and the pie eating contest during Manheim Downtown Development Group's  "Market on the Square". Our Trike racing team of Firefigher Ben Lapp, Deputy Chief S...

05/09 Car Fire Training at LCPSTC

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  • May 31, 2011
    On Monday, May 9th @ 1830, Members loaded up Rescue 2-6 and Truck 2-6 and headed over to The Lancaster County Public Safety Training Center for our Monday night training. We were joined by Mastersonville Fire Co.  Sta. 2-12 for an ev...

Incident Log for 05/23 - 05-29.

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  • May 31, 2011

Manheim Fire Co. had 10 requests for service from 05/23 - 05/29.

They are as follows:

Incident Log for 05/16 - 05/22

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  • May 27, 2011

Manheim Fire Co. had 9 requests for service from 05/16 - 05/22.

They are as follows: