Hermitage Fire Department

What is a fire department?

To some, a fire department exists to do one thing...extinguish fires.  This concept is nothing but a carryover from bygone years.  The fire department is your local first line of emergency services in the time of community need.  A fire department must be capable of responding to not only fire situations, but also hazardous material incidents, emergency medical, rescue services, and serve as the community's source of trained personnel and resources for emergency management response should the community be struck by a natural or man-made disaster.

A major fire department objective is to educate the public about fire and life safety in an effort to reduce property loss, personal injury, and loss of life because of fire or unsafe environments.  This part of fire department operations comes under fire code enforcement, public fire education, fire and life safety building inspections, along with conducting fire cause educations.  Protecting life is our primary concern and mission.

ABOUT US

The Hermitage Fire Department is headed by the Fire Marshal and assisted by the Deputy Fire Marshal.   Our department consists of over forty highly-trained, certified volunteer fire fighters, EMTs, instructors, and investigators.  Our District is comprised of over 40 square miles of first-due coverage area.  This encompasses the City of Hermitage and a contracted coverage area of Lackawannock Township.

The Department has a vast array of modern fire fighting and rescue equipment including a fully-equipped mobile command post and mobile air cascade equipment. We respond regionally under mutual aid agreements with other communities and work closely with the Office of the Pennsylvania State Police Fire Marshal and related agencies.

We operate from three stations - the main (central) station at 2511 Highland Road where administrative offices and training facilities are located, a station at 119 Superior Street in the Patagonia (western) area of the City, and one located at 541 Mercer Avenue (southern).

The Department provides full fire and rescue services to the community including fire fighting, rescue operations of all types, fire safety education programs, fire safety inspection, fire code enforcement, training, haz-mat services, and fire incident investigation.

In addition, the Department maintains the City's Emergency Operations Plan and Emergency Weather Notification System and operates an extensive training facility.