31-Mar-2008
The Lion's Club Volunteer Recognition Award is presented by the Hopewell
Valley Lions Club to members of Hopewell Valley's fire and EMS organizations.
On March 30, 2008, the Lion's presented awards for 2006 and 2007 at the Mountain
View Golf Course banquet hall. The 2006 recipient from the Pennington
First Aid Squad was Julie Aberger, and the 2007 recipient was Cindy Orlandi.
These recipients' names will be added to a plaque hanging in Pennington Borough
Hall listing honorees from previous years.
Hopewell Valley Lions Club 2006/2007 Fire and EMS Awardees. Click on picture
for higher resolution.
29-Mar-2008
The drill for the April meeting will start at 17:30. Please see the training link for details.
15-Mar-2008
New street, Silver's Court, added to directory.
4-Mar-2008
Pictures from Captain's Party will be posted as soon as they are made available.
3-Feb-2008
All PFAS EMTs must take "Right to Know" and "Blood Borne Pathogens" each year. Courses
are being offered Saturday February 9 at 0800-1200, Wednesday February 20 at 1900-2300,
Tuesday February 26 at 0800-1200. Sign up in the radio room.
2-Feb-2008
Results are slowly dribbling in from the state. Congratulations to Wendella
Doggett and Brian Haig, two more new EMTs.
21-Jan-2008
Congratulations to our new EMTs: Lauren Apgar, Kyle Heys, Jessica Niederer, Kristen Orlandi,
Kelly Thompson, and Morgan Zang. Hope to see you on many calls soon.
We expect to see more new EMTs on this list when the State
finishes grading the tests for our other new students.
01-Jan-2008
PFAS salutes the top ten responders for 2007; Julianna Aberger, Neal Blackwell, Daniel
Boone, Ellyn Gerberding, Richard Gordon, John Muccioli, Zay Risinger, Kirk Schmitt, Tom
Tedd, and Heather Varrasse. Together these ten responded to 1379 calls for help from our
community.
PFAS top ten responders for 2007
30-Dec-2007
Daily rig checks may now be done on line. Members are urged to try it and send feedback
to the Assistant Captain. We expect this will result in faster correction of problems
and better inventory control. The form is in the forms section for
members only.
10-Dec-2007
Individual loginIDs and passwords were issued to members tonight for access to the
"for members" portion of this website. If you did not get one, call the Assistant
Captain. The generic loginID and password will be retired in two weeks.
9-Dec-2007
The new Ferno stretchers and Stat Trac fastening systems purchased with a grant from
Merrill-Lynch have arrived and are being installed. Ambulance 151-3 was the first
converted.
All members are urged to practice with the new system before they need to
use them. A training session will be held at 18:30 11-Dec-2007, preceding the regular
monthly meeting.
9-Dec-2007
Some new rules for filling out emsCharts will be discussed by the Captain at the next
monthly meeting, 11-Dec-2007.
10-Nov-2007
We are pleased to announce the graduation of 35 students from the Pennington First Aid
Squad's fall EMT-B class. The graduation
ceremony took place November 17 at the Hopewell
Township Municipal building where an overflow crowd heard talks from our education
director Julie Aberger and Hopewell Township Police Chief George Meyer. The video
"New Jersey Volunteer EMS Opens Doors was also shown followed by presentation of diplomas
and an expression of thanks
and gifts from the class to the instructors.
Of the 35 students, 13 will ride with PFAS, 8 with Titusville, and 5 with Hopewell. The
importance of volunteers to the Hopewell valley was emphasized by the fact that the PFAS
was toned out for two EMS calls during the graduation ceremony.
10-Nov-2007
Knox Boxes are now operational on all three ambulances.
10-Oct-2007
Our thanks to Merrill Lynch for a special grant of $15000 to replace our stretchers
and stretcher mounting system.
