The Borough ' s three VFD fire companies, Gill Hall, Jefferson Hills 885 Area and Floreffe, are staffed by men and women who volunteer their time and skills to serve our community. Currently, the three companies are appealing for fire fighters and residents with administrative skills to join their teams.

Collectively, our three volunteer fire departments annually answer over 400 calls, serving over 11,000 residents in an approximately 16 sq. mile area. In addition to the men and women who ride the trucks and put out fires, our fire companies need volunteers that have backgrounds in general business, accounting, medicine, law enforcement, mechanics, construction, computers and fundraising. Nationwide, its estimated that volunteer firefighters save the American taxpayer $ 37.2 billion dollars a year in labor costs.

If you are interested in learning more about becoming either a firefighter or administrative volunteer, call the Borough offices at 412.655.7735, and you will be put in touch with one of our fire departments. Also, you are welcome to visit the fire stations and the volunteers will be happy to show you around. All three of our VFD’ s have Facebook pages where you can see photos and read more about their activities.

Volunteer firefighters represent over 70 % of all our nation’ s 1.1 million firefighters. Out of the 30,125 fire departments in the US, 25,770 of those are staffed by all volunteer firefighters compared to 4,355 that are staffed by paid or career firefighters.

Thank you to our Borough firefighters who were sworn in to their administrative posts by Mayor Jan Cmar in January ceremonies.

Gill Hall

Front row: Adam Galis( Assistant Chief), Mayor Jan Cmar, Joe Floriolli Sr.( 1st Lieutenant), Patti Felix( Secretary), Calvin Felix( President), Kevin Christofel( Vice President, Relief Association) Back row: Shawn Nowakowski( 2nd Lieutenant), Sean Kundrat( Fire Chief), Jeff Werner( Captain)

Jefferson Hills 885

Howard McBride- Financial Secretary Kevin Dougherty- Vice President Justin Allan- Captain & Trustee Evan Hornyak- Lieutenant & Treasurer Tony Cardello- Captain Tim Yavoich- President Bill Weeks- Trustee Ned Trbovich- Trustee

Floreffe

1st row l-r Val Lance. Mayor Jan Cmar Bob Seleski, Max Stanton. Marlene Stanton Debbie Cudlipp 2nd row Hank Lance, Phil Upton, Ken Burkett, Don Withers, Austin Hatfield, Jay Girman. Eric Welsh

Mike Horgos- Captain & Trustee Scott Deutsch- Deputy Chief Kevin Gloeckl- Recording Secretary Brian Chalfant- Assistant Chief Brandon Webb- Trustee Andrew Tomer- Chief Not pictured Taylor Dougherty-Trustee

72 West Jefferson Hills