Fairview Fire & Rescue welcomes all members of the community with a heart to serve. Your opportunity to help the community is not limited to direct involvement in firefighting, rescue, or EMS operations. Have a mind for business, we can use your assistance. We have several members whose sole desire is to assist the department without running calls providing a variety of administrative and other functions around the stations such as building maintenance and upkeep, records keeping, bookkeeping, providing food and comfort for our personnel when busy working at scenes of emergencies. There are many needed working behind the scenes to keep the organization working efficiently.
For those interested in participating in the roles of emergency providers/first responders there are no specialized qualifications needed. If you do not have any prior experience we will train you! Fairview Fire & Rescue provides Fire, Rescue, and EMS services. We are always in need of those interested in becoming firefighters, rescue technicians Emergency Medical Technicians, and Emergency Medical Responders as well as needing people to operate the vehicles to and from or at the scenes of incidents. If someone is only interested in specific functions, we are happy to have you, you’re as important as those interested in doing it all.
Stop by the station check us out and talk to some of our people. We have weekly training drills on Wednesday nights at 7 PM at our headquarters at 7190 West Ridge Rd, Fairview, except for the 2nd Wednesday of the month which is our monthly business meeting. We invite all interested in helping the community to come check us out.
Requirements to be a Member
Associate Members
- No previous experience required
- Anyone who wishes to help in any way- does not need to be an active call runner
- Be 18 years of age or older
- Complete and submit an application
- Submit PSP criminal background check
- Submit PA child abuse clearance
- Attend 6 monthly meetings annually
Active Members
- No previous experience required
- Anyone who wishes to help with running calls
- Be 18 years of age or older
- Complete and submit an application
- Submit PA criminal background check
- Submit PA child abuse clearance
- Attend 16 drills and training annually
- Attend 6 monthly meetings annually
Junior Members
- Be between the ages of 14 and 17
- Complete the application with parental consent
- Attend 6 monthly meetings annually
- Attend drills and training if wish to be active
- Submit school “working papers”
Opportunities to Help
Associate members are everyone who joins the organization. If you don’t want to be actively involved in emergency operations but are interested in helping with day-to-day operations, business functioning, fundraising, and much more
Members who participate in various activities to support fire suppression activities. Not everyone needs to actively fight fires, we need individuals who can drive and operate apparatus, perform vehicle checks and a variety of other functions
Rescue encompasses a wide range of technical aspects to vehicle rescues, ropes rescues, farm rescues and more. We need individuals who can perform these rescues as well as drive and operate apparatus, perform vehicle and equipment checks, and a variety of other functions.
EMS is the busiest portion of Emergency Services today. Dedicated EMT’s (Emergency Medical Technician), EMRs (Emergency Medical Responder), and EMSVOs (EMS Vehicle Operators) are always needed. It takes a special person with compassion to provide the necessary EMS services.
Individuals 14-17 years of age who want to help out the community. Start learning basic skills involved in the different aspects of operations of the department.