Sterling Volunteer Fire Company

The Sterling Volunteer Fire Company would like to congratulate our sister organization the Sterling Volunteer Rescue Squad on being selected by EMS Magazine to receive the 2006 EMS Gold Award, recognizing them as the premier volunteer EMS agency in the United States.

On Saturday October 7th, the Sterling Volunteer Fire Department will be holding their annual Open House at 104 Commerce Street, Sterling, VA during Sterlingfest. Sterlingfest will be kicked off at 10:00 am with a parade hosted by the Knights of Columbus which will start at Park View High school and travel down Sterling Boulevard to the barn on Holley ave. Following the parade open house activities will include static displays, a smoke house for kids, and information tables. Additionally, demonstrations such as a helicopter landing, vehicle extrication, oven fires and stokes basket rescues will take place on Commerce Street through out the day.

Please come and enjoy the day while supporting your local Fire Department and the community!

On Sunday September 24th, at approximately 1930, Engine 618 was dispatched to a reported auto accident in the area of Sugarland Run and Cottage Drive. The crew arrived on scene of this possible hit and run accident and identified that there were 6 cars impacted over a 1.5 mile distance with 3 patients involved. The crew quickly went to work completing tasks associated with scene safety and patient care. One patient was transported by SVRS to Loudoun Hospital for check out.

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At 6:20pm E618, E611, and T611 were alerted for an oven fire in an apartment in Sugarland. Dispatch advised that the fire was believed to be contained to the oven. Upon arrival E618 discovered the apartment full of smoke. Crews were quickly able to evacuate the occupant, contain and extinguish the fire in the kitchen, and begin removing smoke from the apartment.

Starting at approximately 1pm on Saturday, September 2nd units from from Sterling, Fairfax County (Herndon and Reston), Ashburn, Arcola, and Dulles Airport began responding to numerous gas leaks throughout the Sterling area. An equipment malfunction put too much mercaptan, the additive that gives natural gas its smell, into the system. At last count there have been 217 calls handled by the Loudoun County Fire and Rescue system, mostly in the Sterling area.

The Sterling Volunteer Fire Company would like to thank all the companies and personnel who helped out. A special thanks to the volunteers of Engine 822 (Springfield) for covering Sterling for 8 hours, starting at midnight.

Command 11 at the command post

Loudoun County’s mobile command center

Getting help from Springfield and Middleburg

Photos: Chief David Short