About Us

Bucket brigades were the mode of fire fighting until 1916, when a group of industrious men organized the Bridgeville Volunteer Fire Company. They secured a hose cart, which the firemen pulled to fires for eight years. Then, in 1924, the volunteers bought their first motorized piece of fire apparatus. It was a brand new open cab American LaFrance, chain-drive pumper. It was early 1929 when they were chartered as a non-profit charitable corporation by the Commonwealth courts. In 1945, the volunteers purchased the Bonosky property on Bower Hill Road and donated it to the Borough, on which land, the present Borough Building was built. This building housed the fire department and all other functions of the borough. The firemen moved into their new quarters on December 15, 1948, where they remained until 1997, when the firemen moved into their new fire station and social hall on Commercial Street.