JEFFERSON VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY

Our first response area covers 20 square miles, with roughly 6,500 people and 2,650 homes. Our immediate area includes 4 schools, 7 Churches, 2 mobile home parks, 1 RV park, and numerous businesses and commercial properties. Additionally, we provide protection for numerous State, County, Borough and Township roads that traverse the area, 1 Railroad line, and many high pressure gas and propane lines. With many mutual aid requests, our response area expands to 100 square miles. 12,700 people, and 4,550 homes. Our normal response to these requests is within 20-25 minutes with 20 plus members when available. We feel that this is a testament to the departments dedication to serving the public, as well as our own Community. The number of mutual aid responses in 2024 was 3, as well as 18 public service calls as well as 6 separate trees down responses. Also in 2024 we responded to 66 fire related calls, including 26 structure fires, 13 field fires, 24 fire alarm activations, and 3 unknown type fires. We also responded to 5 unknown odor investigations, 1 smoke in a structure call, 10 reports of wires on fire and 1 false fire alarm activation. We were also placed on Stand By from neighboring departments 3 times.

The number of ambulance related calls in 2024 was 338. We also responded to 39 motor vehicle accidents, and 5 vehicle fires. We transported patients to Waynesburg PA, Washington PA, and Morgantown WV. IN addition to ground ambulance transportation, we also provided 8 helicopter landing zone setups at our high school football field, for those patients that needed to be air lifted to a hospital with a trauma center faster than ground transport would get them there. We also provide support for other area fire departments when needed and transported 139 patients from these assists.