April 25, 2006

Ben & Jerry’s and SVFD

Filed under: Community,Events,Photos — Kerri Smith @ 12:17 pm

On April 25th, the Sterling Volunteer Fire Department attended the “Free” scoop event at Ben in Jerry’s at Cascades Market Place in Sterling. Actually, we did more then just attend we were the celebrity scooper’s for the day! The department would like to thank the employee’s of Ben and Jerry’s for donating all tips made that day to the department. Over the course of 8 hours, over 1600 people who came through the line for a free scoop and made donations of just over $1600 to the department!

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April 20, 2006

SVFC attends Family Night at Chick-Fil-A

Filed under: Community,Events,Photos — Kerri Smith @ 10:28 am

On Thursday April 20th at approximately 1715 volunteers from the Sterling Volunteer Fire Department (MTech J. Haddad, D/O B. Graham, FF J. Brown, FF B. Welsh, PFF D. Parrish, PFF L. Avila) arrived at Station 18 to prepare the Quint for the “Family Night” event held at Chick-Fil-A later that evening. Also in attendance was Admin. member D. Schweisthal, Photographer F. Fleming and Duty Crew 4. Thanks to all who attended and made this a sucessful event!

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April 2, 2006

Firefighters Participate in LPG Drills

Filed under: Photos,Training — Administrator @ 23:20 pm

Firefighters from Sterling and other parts of the county trained in practicals to deal with LPG (Liquid Propane Gas) emergencies as part of the Firefighter 2 course curriculum. AFFF operations were also covered so that firefighters could gain experience laying down a foam blanket to deal with such incidents as a fuel spill on fire.


Propane tank prop lit off.


Two separate attack crews advance lines onto the tank.


Firefighters Cabo, Rambo, Lloyd, and others follow Technician Lusk’s lead on the offensive.

Photos by: FF Smedburg

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Yet another 3 alarm fire in Reston

Filed under: Calls,Crew 5,Photos — Administrator @ 23:14 pm

For the second time in less than two months, units from Sterling (specifically Crew 5) were sent to Reston to assist Fairfax County for a 3 alarm fire. This time E11 (Capt. Roman), E18 (Master Technician Morimoto), BC1 (Lamb) were dispatched at 1434 on Sunday afternoon to 11266 Fairwind Dr in Reston to assist with a townhouse fire that had spread to multiple units. Due to a mostly exterior attack, command decided the services of the third alarm were not needed and released both engines within 30 minutes of their arrival. Honorable mention should be given to Tower 11 (Lt. Firmin) for their road trip down to Chantilly to fill 415! Engine 415 was certainly suprised to see Tower 611 arrive at their doorstep instead of going to the fire. While all this was going on, the guys and gals back home were able to staff the remaining two pieces of apparatus (Q18 and W18).


Photo from Reston Fire Station 25

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