I moved into the Paxtonia Fire Company in Dauphin County in Fall of 2008. In the year and a half that I have been a member here we have run well over 500 fire calls including numerous working fires. As a Live-In my responsibilities are pretty reasonable, help out around the station, clean the station, clean the apparatus, and respond to fire calls. Its pretty basic and easy for a place thats lets you live there for free just for doing a few chores! Paxtonia Fire Company has four pieces of apparatus with one being the only one in the county. We have a 1998 Seagrave Rescue Engine, A 1998 Seagrave Tiller which is the only one in Dauphin County, A 2001 Ford Utillity Truck, and 2008 Seagrave Suppression Engine. We are averaging between 400 and 500 calls a year and stay pretty busy running everything from working house or commercial property fires to accidents to automatic alarms. My goal is to show day by day what we do all on top of going to college. Some days are hectic running calls all night and going to school the next day, but if being a firefighter is what you want to do this is definantly the program for you!
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