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Barn Fire Devestates the Webbs Mills Farm Community

Posted on January 26, 2012 at 9:25 AM Comments comments (0)

       A dairy barn on Dutch Hill Road in Pine City filled with more than 80 cattle went up in flames Tuesday night. As the fire started to spread, farmers saved the cattle by rushing them out of the structure, with no injuries reported.

Fire crews arrived to Watts Farm in Pine City around 5:00pm Tuesday evening. Fire officials haven't conclusively determined what started the fire, but say it was probably caused by gas-powered farm equ...

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W.M.F.D Gets a Rush of Alarms

Posted on January 26, 2012 at 8:55 AM Comments comments (0)

      With the first two weeks of the New Year being calm and our trucks not turning a wheel, W.M.F.D became one of the last to recieve their first call of the year. everything changed though on 1/16/12 when WMFD recieved a call for a roll over MVA with no injuries. Crews responded primarily doing traffic control since the patient was hurt. After crews returned to quarters to clean apparatus and conduct the company's monthly meeting. The next day as night fell up...

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Webbs Mills Aids Tioga County, NY During Flooding

Posted on October 15, 2011 at 2:40 PM Comments comments (0)

     On 9/9/11 Webbs Mills dodged major flooding but other communities weren't as lucky. The same night members of WMFD were responding to flooding in the Penn. Ave/ Rt. 328 area, neighboring communities such as Wellsburg and the counties of Broome and Tioga County, NY and Bradford, PA were experiencing major flooding from almost all the rivers and creeks in thier counties. After WMFD cleared from the flooding in thier district they began to assemble crews and supplies to ...

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Webbs Mills Comes Close to Flooding

Posted on September 9, 2011 at 5:45 PM Comments comments (0)

       Throughout the day Wednesday 9/7/11 remnants of Tropical Storm Lee moved through NewYork and Pennsylvania. At the same time storms formed in Virginia and eventually train tracked, which is storms form a line and move in the same area one after another, into the area Lee had left. Over the course of the day Seeley Creek rose slowly as volunteers staffed station 1 in case of any emergency. Towards the evening the rain seemed to have moved out of the area as ...

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WMFD Keeps Busy in July and August 2011

Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:50 AM Comments comments (0)

    As the hot days of summer rolled into New York, volunteers from WMFD kept themselves busy not with calls but multiple events in the area. In July WMFD sent a team to play at Knoxville Waterball and came home with 1st Place the third year in a row. Two days later WMFD shined up Brush 1872 and ATV 1874 and represented our area in Knoxville's parade and came back with furthest distance traveled. The next weekend Numerous Volunteers helped to raise money at a pre-sold Chicken B...

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WMFD Honors Memorial Day

Posted on May 31, 2011 at 9:52 AM Comments comments (0)
Webbs Mills Vol. Fire Dept. honored Memorial Day by representing our community in both the Elmira and Millerton Parades. Engine 1831 and Brush 1872 went to the Elmira parade with multiple members that marched the 1.5 mile parade route. After the Elmira parade was over units proceeded back to the station where other members waited to attend the Millerton Parade. Arriving just in time for the parade to start all of our apparatus was showcased in the parade for having the best appearing Fire D... Read Full Post »

WMFD Crews Finish Tornado Clean Up

Posted on May 30, 2011 at 12:43 PM Comments comments (0)

   

            Finally the warm weather has come to Webbs Mills but so has the Severe Weather. At Around 1645 hrs on May 26, 2011 a severe thundersto...

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Severe Storm Possibly a Tornado Hits Webbs Mills

Posted on May 28, 2011 at 1:00 PM Comments comments (0)

PINE CITY — By the strangest of coincidences, Maureen Brown was watching "The Big Bang Theory" on her television Thursday night when a severe thunderstorm darkened the sky and blew down nearby trees that, with a snap, crackle and pop, pulled the electric wires from the front side of her Pine City home.

The 1731 Pennsylvania Ave. home escaped any structural damage.

But with no electricity to run the well pump, there was no running water. There were no working appliances and a...

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2010 Firefighter I Graduation

Posted on February 12, 2011 at 4:21 PM Comments comments (0)

On behalf of the Webbs Mills Vol. Fire Dept. we would like to welcome to the service seven newly trained firefighters. Katie Bachman, Brendan Bassler, Tabitha Bassler, Ken Baumgartner, Brian Ewanyk, Kyle Halm, and Charles Riker all have completed their Firefighter I training in the Spring and Fall classes of the year 2010. This...

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Millerton Lumber Yard Fire

Posted on November 16, 2010 at 5:54 PM Comments comments (0)

        

         At 0615 hrs on 11/16/10 Webbs Mills Crews were dispatched Mutual Aid to Millerton for a full response to a str...

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