Pequea Valley Fire Department

08/08/2025

🚨❤️ Learn to Save a Life! ❤️🚨

Pequea Valley Fire Department is hosting a Community CPR Class and YOU are invited!
Whether you’re a parent, grandparent, teacher, coach, babysitter or just want to be prepared, CPR is a skill that can truly make a difference.

📅 Date: Wednesday September 17th
🕒 Time: 6:30pm - 9pm
📍 Location: 3204 Vigilant Street Gordonville PA 17529
💵 Cost: $35

No prior experience needed — our certified instructors will guide you step-by-step.

➡️ Spots are limited! Reserve yours today by filling out the form at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd4xRme8TGRm6y2k8yCJDsvCh-9XXMKBiJsTlzbo0jHTI1M_w/viewform?usp=dialog

🫀 Be the reason someone gets a second chance.

We are hosting a community CPR class. It will be held on Wednesday September 17th from 6:30pm to 8:30-9pm at Pequea Valley Fire Department (3204 Vigilant Street, Gordonville). It will be a lay provider ASHI CPR class and a certification will be obtained with it. Cost is $35 per person. Please fill o...

08/07/2025

🔥 Heading to Rough & Tumble's 77th annual Thresherm's Reunion next week? Don’t forget to swing by the Pequea Valley Fire Department Food Stand to fuel up while supporting your local firefighters! 🚒

🍳 Breakfast Buffet:
🕕 6:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Enjoy a full, hot breakfast to kickstart your day!

🌭 Lunch & Dinner:
Served all day — featuring hot dogs, burgers, sausage sandwiches, and crispy fries!

Your support helps us serve the community — one bite at a time! 🙌
📍Look for the PVFD stand on the grounds — we’ll be ready!

The event runs Wednesday August 13th - Saturday August 16th.

4997 Lincoln Hwy, Kinzers, PA 17535

The Most Complete Steam & Gas Show in the East!  Visit the large Flea Market!  Walk thru the Huge Flea Market 2-3 acres and we have over 100 vendors.  

08/02/2025

PVFD along with Paradise Leaman Place Fire Company, Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health Penn Med 1, and PSP are wrapping up a beautiful evening here in Paradise at the Paradise Township Community Picnic.

07/12/2025

📞 9-1-1 Service Restored 📞

The statewide 9-1-1 outage has been resolved, and normal service has been fully restored. Lancaster County residents can once again call 9-1-1 for emergencies as usual.

07/12/2025

🚨 Statewide 9-1-1 Outage Update – Lancaster County 🚨

Due to a continued statewide intermittent 9-1-1 outage, the public is urged to still attempt to call 9-1-1 first to report emergencies.

If you are unable to get through, please call one of the following alternate emergency numbers:

📞 717-664-1190 (Fire/EMS)
📞 717-664-1180 (Police)
📞 717-664-1209 (Emergency Operations Center - Police/Fire/EMS)

These lines connect directly to Lancaster County 9-1-1 dispatchers.

07/08/2025

Today, we had the privilege of facilitating a show-and-tell presentation from the Penn Medicine Prehospital Physician Response Team, "Penn Med 1", for the Paradise Township Supervisors at their monthly workshop meeting.

This innovative program brings highly trained physicians directly to the scene of critical medical emergencies, supporting EMS crews with advanced procedures and life-saving interventions in the field. The best part, this service is offered FREE through a fellowship program with Penn Medicine. Currently, Penn Med 1 is the only Prehospital Physician Response Team offered in Lancaster County.

Supervisors had a chance to get an up-close look at the specialized response vehicle, equipment, and learn about the vital role these physicians play in prehospital care across our region.

Penn Med 1 and their crew of physicians have proven to be a huge asset to PVFD and the local community here in the Pequea Valley area. Penn Med 1 has already responded to multiple calls to assist our EMS crews, offered education/training opportunities, and help develop and foster better relationships with the department and hospital staff.

A huge thank you to Dr Mulcahy, Dr McCardell, and EMS Manager Andrew Rennie for coming out for this presentation and to Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health for their commitment to advancing emergency medical services. Also, thank you to our township leaders for their continued support with PVFD and for taking the time to engage with this life-saving initiative!

06/20/2025

Heritage Days is this weekend at In*******se Community Park!

PVFD will have EMS onsite tonight and tomorrow, as well as the Tower tomorrow afternoon for the candy drop and bucket rides!

Make sure you stop by and say hi to the crews if you are there. Click the link below for information more information!

https://www.intercourseheritagedays.com/

06/12/2025

Yesterday Tanker 405, Engine 405 Engine 403 and Special Unit 403 assisted Bart Township Fire Company with a commercial building fire in the 900 block of Vintage Road in Bart Township. First arriving units found fire in two buildings on the property with an additional warehouse building and house as an exposure. PVFD units operated on scene for about 3 hours with crews handling multiple assignments including fire suppression, overhaul, water supply, rehab and command support roles.

*Photos courtesy of Quarryville Fire Company's page and station 40 members*

06/10/2025

The public parking lot in In*******se is now open!

While this might not be “fire news” we are happy to announce that the municipal public parking lot at the intersection of East Newport Road (772) and Old Philly Pike (340) is finally opened!

The lot is open from 5am -10pm and includes 8 EV charging stations. If you find yourself visiting the attractions here in our local town make sure you take advantage of this parking site!

06/07/2025

Come on out to our Kinzer station today to support the fire company at our summer sale!

3521 Lincoln Highway East, Kinzers Pa

While here come into the office and buy one of our new patches that just became available for sale. $8 a patch!

05/22/2025

Since the formation of Pequea Valley Fire Department in September of 2023 there has been a high demand for us to sell our patches. We are pleased to announce that day has finally come!

Patches are $8 each and can be picked up at our Gordonville station located at 3204 Vigilant Street Gordonville Pa or mailed for an extra $1 (payment much be received before we ship the patch). At this time we can not accept credit cards, if you would like a patch mailed, cash or check can be sent to:

Pequea Valley Fire Department
3204 Vigilant Street
Gordonville PA 17529

Any questions or to have one mailed please contact Deputy Chief Johnson at djohnson@pvfd40.com

05/16/2025

Truck 403 and Ambulance 403 are out at Pequea Valley School District’s annual spring fling at the High School. There’s still plenty of time to stop by this free event before the rain comes in!