The Parkside Fire Company is advertising to rent out our Banquet Hall for various functions. There is a new system being utilized, so e-mail us for the new rental prices. The Hall can accomadate up to 150 people, bartenders can be provided, and there is a full kitchen attached. Contact us at parksidehallrentals@gmail.com to get more information.

Tonight, the members enjoyed a night off and had the annual banquet in the hall. The night consisted of delicious food, awards, great music, dancing. The awards are as follows Life Members- Val Petchel, Dawn Alonso, Rob Powers Sr., & Catherine "Minnie" DiDomenico. Junior Firefighters of the year- Rob Powers Jr., & Mike Schnarrs Lou Hong Award- Paul Curry Past Presidents Award- Pat Iacono Past Chief Award- Joe "Ike" Iacono Service Award- Lisa Iacono Top 10 Fire Responders 1- Paul Curry, 2-Billy Dewees, 3- Ryan Clarke, 4-Mike Schnarrs, 5- Bobby Helmer, 6- Shayne Bierman, 7- Rob Powers Jr., 8- Dave Karlunas & Dave Lamey, 9- John Albany Jr. & John Smedley, 10- Rob Powers Sr. & John Clancy Jr. Top 10 EMS Responders 1- Thomas Vetri, 2- Mimi Epright, 3- Kevin Toth, 4- Chris Rowan, 5- Shayne Bierman, 6- Marc Seltzer, 7- Jake Sheridan, 8- Kameron Crisculo, 9- Dave Wilkie, 10- Christine Cylc Thanks goes out to all of the members of Parkside Fire Company for their dedication this past year.

For the last 2 Tuesdays, the officers and members of Parkside as well as a few other Delco Fire Companies completed the Hazmat refresher class. The class was taught by Daryl Harris. The class went over foam, talked about the recent incidents @ the Boston Marathon, & Texas. We would like to thank Daryl for teaching the class.

Tonight, Engine 42 (Collingdale #2) covered the station tonight for the annual banquet.

About 2 hours into the cover @ 1945, E-42 was dispatched to 1 Avenue of the States in Chester @ Kimberly Clark to assist on a 2 Alarm building fire. E-42 arrived & assisted the city. Units were made available & E-42 returned @ 2300.



No other calls were recorded that night. Thanks to 42 for providing coverage.

Around 1600, Rescue 45 along with Engine 55 (Ogden) were dispatched to cover Sta. 71 (Chester Heights). 71 was operating at a Box Alarm in Aston Twp. While standing by @ Sta. 71, Units were alerted to Concord Twp for a box alarm. Units arrived with nothing showing. The Rescue was made available a few minutes later, & returned to Sta. 71. There were no further calls during the rest of the cover.

Around Midnight, Rescue 45 was dispatched to 842 Main St. in Darby Borough to assist with a 3 Alarm fire during the overhaul operation. Rescue 45 operated for about 6 hours along with Tower 44 (Springfield), Engine 22 (Millbourne), & Chesco Engine 22 (West Grove).

The Parkside Fire Company is excited to annouce the details for its upcoming banquet.  The banquet will be held on Saturday, April 27th at the Parkside Fire Company Hall, beginning at 5PM.  There will be hor d'oeurves, dinner, a bagpipe band, a DJ, and dancing.

Tickets are $10 per person.  Please see Teresa by Saturday April 13th for tickets.

The City of Chester was operating at a Working Fire on 6th St when they struck a 2nd Alarm. At about 9:30 in the morning, Engine 45 was dispatched and responded for mutual aid. The City units controlled the blaze and no services were needed, so Engine 45 returned available.

Around 11:30pm, Engine 45 was dispatched to assist Company 57 (Upland) on a Building Fire. A trash can was on fire in the rear of the residence on Church St. and had extended into a rear addition on the building. Crews operated to find and extinguish the fire in the walls and the roof of the addition. After almost an hour on scene, the fire was deemed under control by 57 Command and crews returned available.

Rescue 45 was dispatched to cover Station 42 (Collingdale #2) while they operated on a working fire in Lansdowne. Rescue 45 responded with a crew of 4, and shortly after responding they were alerted of a Building Fire with Possible Entrapment in Sharon Hill. The fire was knocked down quickly by crews on scene and all searches were negative. Rescue 45 returned to service a short time later.