Sterling Volunteer Fire Company

Seagrave continues to make excellent progress on the tower. Both sides of the body have been installed, the roll up doors and many other items. Compartmentation on the transverse compartment has been completed.

The Apparatus Committee will travel to Wisconsin February 6 to 10 to do a final inspection, and spend a day or so mounting tools and equipment.

Seagrave will drive the tower back to Fesco Emergency Sales Elkridge Maryland for a PM and then add the graphics. Seeing the new tower by the end of February. (Mark Featherstone)

Photos: Mark Featherstone and Seagrave

The Sterling Volunteer Fire Company held its 41st annual Banquet and Officer Installation on Saturday, Jan 20th. Congratulations to all the officers sworn in. Special recognition goes to those who were presented with awards last night:

Recruit Firefighter of the Year: FF Brian King
Firefigher of the Year: D/O Grant Serbousek
Officer of the Year: Capt Rick Opett
Associates of the Year: Treasurer Debbie Agnolet and points coordinator Kelly Poplar

The SVFC would like to extend a huge thank you to the volunteers from Ashburn, Leesburg and Purcellville for staffing both stations and ensuring that the citizens of Sterling were protected.

SVFD is proud to update the membership and community that as of Wednesday morning, January 17th, Seagrave has mounted the transverse compartment and expects to have both of the side compartments mounted by weeks end. The inspection is still on schedule for the first part of February with a delivery date to be no later than the end of February.

Keep your eyes open for the next update!

Front Basket

Left Side

Right Side

Photos: Mark Featherstone and Seagrave

Saturday was an eventful day for the crew of 618 with requests for the fire truck to attend 2 birthday parties, crew training, cleaning the station and trucks, a dinner feast created by one of the administrative members and running 5 calls. All of this was a great opportunity to introduce our new recruits to the additional responsibilities of helping the public beyond just handling the emergency calls.

At approximately 2050 on Saturday January 13th, crew 2 was dispatched to the scene of an investigation/fire reported out in a bathroom. The crew arrived on scene to find the results of a small fire in the bathroom that had been extinguished by the homeowner. The fire was confined to a small area consisting of the candle holder and the area located on the glass/wall behind it.

Photos: Kerri Smith

Thanks to all who helped rack the large quantity of hose we had on the ground!

At approximately 2239 on Monday, January 8th, W618 was dispatched to
the scene of a reported auto fire. The crew arrived on scene to find the engine compartment fully involved and quickly worked to extinguish the fire by gaining access to the passenger compartment. Great job to Crew 4 for keeping the fire in check which allowed the owner to salvage the contents of the vehicle.

Photo’s courtesy of M. Featherstone

The start to a very busy Saturday started at approximately 0500, with the 1st of 3 structure fire calls which was then followed by a call to assist with a successful baby delivery, 3 fire alarms, 2 entrapment calls, and other small jobs all in all equalling 9 calls. Great job Crew 1!

At approximately 0454, a full box assignment was dispatched for a structure fire at the Dulles Town Center Mall. The first arriving crews were informed by security that there was heavy smoke coming from one of the food establishments in the food court. E618 made entry and proceeded to extinguish the fire. T611 and E611 worked to secure the sprinkler system as well as opened a few ceiling doors and checked the HVAC system.
Thanks to the outstanding volunteer and career personnel operating on the scene the food court, with the exception of Chick-Fil-A was open in time for lunch.

At 18:15 on Wednesday, Jan 3, Engine companies 618, 611, 623, 439, Truck 611, Squad 439, Ambulance 25, and Battalion 602 were alerted for a kitchen fire in Cascades. Engine 618 arrived on scene to find a small fire in the kitchen and smoke throughout the structure. The fire was quickly contained and extinguished, and the smoke was removed from the structure. Many thanks to Chief 11, Engine 436, and Rescue Squad 615, who also responded.