Your Community Needs You - Volunteer to Make a Difference!

The Greater Springfield Volunteer Fire Department is actively seeking volunteers of all backgrounds for Firefighter, EMT and FireCorps Administrative roles.

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Every day, in every community, emergency responders answer the call of our families, friends and neighbors who are in need of assistance. From car accidents to heart attacks, from house fires to technical rescues, emergency responders are there to protect lives and property.

Emergency responders are a special type of people, with many different reasons for answering the call of duty. Some like the challenges and the adrenaline rush, while others like to sharpen their emergency skills and techniques.  Every one of them answers the call so that they can help someone in need.

Today's emergency responders do far more than put out fires or bandage wounds. Emergency responders are the first line of defense in natural and man-made disasters. They respond to vehicle accidents, hazardous materials incidents, specialized rescue situations and a vast array of emergency medical complaints.

In response to the growing need for new volunteer fire and emergency medical service providers, the Greater Springfield Volunteer Fire Department has initiated a recruitment campaign for interested citizens to learn how to "answer the call" and serve their community.

Becoming a volunteer emergency responder can be the most rewarding experience of your life, and allows you to reach out to someone in need. Together with the Greater Springfield Volunteer Fire Department you can ensure that there is always someone to "answer the call".

Click JOIN NOW ! to fill out the on-line contact / information request form.

Click FIRE EXPLORER's Program to learn more about Fairfax County's Fire & Rescue Department Explorer Program.

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The FCVFRA training committee coordinated an important Multi-Unit-Drill (MUD) on Saturday, January 16th for volunteers to aid first responders in learning more about Virginia Railway Express (VRE) operations and response techniques.  Units participating in this drill included 4 Engines and 4 Ambulances from Springfield, Fair Oaks, Dunn Loring and Centerville along with a Command Officer and Canteen unit with 35 Firefighters and EMT's participating.

The day's event included a lecture from VRE staff on rail operations, equipment overviews and safety operations.   After the lecture, the teams moved to the VRE Facility at Manassas's Broad Run location.   From there, VRE provided hands on tour and familiarization of train engines and passanger cars, with emphasis of features such as:

* Access points for emergency brakes and fuel cut-offs
* Emergency door release access points and operations
* Wheel chair lift operations in powered and manual modes

After the tour and familiarization, teams conducted an incident simulation consisting of a reported "fire" in a passanger car and extrication of multiple "passangers" with varying medical conditions.

Upon completion of the drill, teams gathered for a de-brief and review of the simulation and overall days events.

A big THANKS goes out to Mark Servello, Corey Merdler, and the rest of the committee for putting together this exceptional training opprotunity and a special THANK YOU to the folks at VRE for taking their Saturday by providing the lecture and access to VRE equipment that made this day a huge success.

For more photos, see our VRE photo gallery.

Smoke Detectors Save Lives

TIME TO CHANGE THE BATTERY & TEST ALL YOUR SMOKE DETECTORS !

Greater Springfield Volunteer Fire Department is offering free smoke detectors to residents who are in need of this simple but effective life safety alarm but might not be able to afford or install one themselves.

For information on requesting a free smoke detector and to schedule a free installation by a member of the Greater Springfield Volunteer Fire Department, contact the station at:

703-451-0120.

For Fairfax residents outside of the Springfield area, please contact the station nearest your home.

Greater Springfield Volunteer Fire Department held its Annual Fire Prevention Week Open House on

Saturday October 10th, 2009.  In addition to our Open House, we also offered our first Pancake Breakfast

which turned out to be a great success and even drew local political officials to help serve the community

 in new ways.   It was a fun and informative day for all teaching this years theme of "Stay Fire Smart -

Don't Get Burned".   Games, displays and activites helped to promote the ever important fire safety event. 

 Through the efforts of our FireCorps members, Volunteer Firefighters, EMT's and Career staff,

eveyone pulled together enabling the Greater Springfield Volunteer Fire Department to win the

 Fairfax County Battalion 5 Fire Prevention Week 2009 Best Open House (now two years in a row)

Check out this years Photo Album#1 and Photo Album #2