Delaware Valley College community service at Station 79, 8/20/2005
The Doylestown Fire Co. #1 was the recipient of a donation of community service from Resident Advisors of Delaware Valley College on August 20, 2005. The students, who are trained to advise and supervise activities in the residence halls at the college, finished 3 days of training in anticipation of students returning for the fall semester. As part of their orientation, they looked to the Doylestown community for a service project and offered their services to the fire company.
Lead by Matt Grogan, a college staff member and Doylestown volunteer firefighter, the 35 students descended upon the Warden Road firehouse in Doylestown Township on the muggy August Saturday morning. The students washed and waxed fire trucks, trimmed shrubs, weeded beds, cleared brush and constructed a fence in the course of the day.
The members of the fire company are extremely grateful for the efforts of the students. Numerous fire company members are graduates of Delaware Valley College. Many of them came to Doylestown as students at the college and were volunteer firefighters elsewhere and took advantage of the fire company’s associate membership program. The associate member program allows volunteer firefighters who attend the college to join the fire company and respond when in school. A sizeable number of these individuals have relocated to the Doylestown area and become active and vital members of the fire company and community. Delaware Valley College is a supporter of the associate program, for which the fire company is extremely grateful.
Amanda Boher, from Quantico, MD., cleans the main ladder of Ladder 79.
Vincent Ziglioli, Bohemia, NY, trims some shrubs.
Engine 79 gets a good scrubbing by the students.
Jeff Devine, Readington, NJ, washes Engine 79.
Meilssa Ridall, of Mehoopany, PA, weeds in a rock bed.