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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.

Lions Club Fire and EMS Awardees

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

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.





Fall 2007 EMT-B class

Fall 2007 EMT-B class





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.





Robert Krukowski, Director Hopewell Facilities and Helene Garcia, Director
     Community & Strategic Initiatives present check to President Daniel Boone,
     Captain Cindy Orlandi, and First Assistant Captain Kirk Schmitt

Robert Krukowski, Director Hopewell Facilities and Helene Garcia, Director Community & Strategic Initiatives present check to President Daniel Boone, Captain Cindy Orlandi, and First Assistant Captain Kirk Schmitt