Want a Ride to School on a Rainy Day? …Two Girls Got a Woodbury Firetruck
Two elementary schoolgirls rode to the Mitchell Elementary School in a Woodbury Volunteer Fire Department truck on Friday May 9th as part of a PTO fundraiser in Region 14. Pictured from right to left are Frankie Voice, age 11, in the fifth grade, with her neighbor buddy Lyla Legge, age 7, in the first grade. […]
Woodbury Firefighters Recertify in Skills
Woodbury Volunteer Firefighters turned out in force Sunday morning May 4th for semi-annual recertifying in fire and rescue skills ranging from quenching flames from a ladder truck to forcing doors for entry and many other practices. In photo 1, Fire Capt Corey Shaker climbs on a ladder truck. In photo 2, Firefighters Pano Koukopoulos uses […]
Woodbury Fire Hosts Kids Fishing Derby; Plus Pancake Breakfast for Mom
The Woodbury Volunteer Fire Dept will host its free annual Kids Fishing Derby in honor of the Late chief Mel Snyder on Saturday morning May 10th and its annual Mothers Day Pancake Breakfast on Sunday morning May 11th. “We love our neighbors,” says Fire Chief Janet B. Morgan, adding. “and even with this social weekend, […]
Woodbury Fire Dept Community Events May 10t & 11: Kids Fishing Derby Saturday, Mother’s Day Pancakes Sunday
The Woodbury Volunteer Fire Dept will host a community weekend on May 10th and 11th with a free kids’ fishing derby on Saturday morning and a Mother’s Day pancake breakfast on Sunday morning. “We’re all neighbors and we draw volunteer firefighters from across the town in a wide variety of occupations,” says Fire Chief Janet […]
Touch a Truck with Woodbury Fire Department
Woodbury Fire Chief Janet B. Morgan explains the workings of a firetruck to rapt schoolchildren at Region 14’s Touch-A-Truck Day at the Mitchell Elementary School, Tuesday April 1st 2025. In the photo, Chief Morgan is telling fifth graders about the functions of the driver who is also the pump operator. A moment later she opened […]
Woodbury Firefighters Smoke Rescue Practice Drill
Woodbury Firefighters practiced search-and-rescue operations in a vacant, smoke-filled building on Saturday March 29th. Said Fire Chief Janet B. Morgan, “It’s easy to get disoriented in an unfamiliar building when you can’t see. You open a door that you think leads to a hallway and it’s a closet or a flight of stairs. We want […]
Jan-Feb Woodbury Fire Stats and March begins with major barn fire
The Woodbury Volunteer Fire Dept responded fifty-one times in the first two months of the year, Fire Chief Janet B. Morgan said today. She noted also that March began with a major barn fire (photo) used as an office shortly before 1 am on Tuesday March 4th. “We kept it from spreading to another barn […]
Woodbury Finance Committee’s First Look at Fire Dept’s New Command Vehicle
The Woodbuy Finance Committee got its first look at the Fire Department’s new $70,000 Command Vehicle at its meeting Saturday March 1st, 2025. Fire Chief Janet B. Morgan explained the updated communications and specialized gear in the week-old truck that replaced an exhausted 14-year-old vehicle. With Chief Morgan (l-r) is Deputy Finance Chair Karen McWhirter, […]
Woodbury Firefighters Respond to Crash near Hollow Park
Woodbury Firefighters wrapup a two-car accident at the cemetery next to Hollow Park about 9am on Saturday morning Feb 22nd. The serious crash involving a pickup truck and a sedan was the fourth call-out in 24 hours, officers said. The Incident Commander was Fire Capt Corey Shaker. When not fighting fires, he is chief executive […]
Woodbury Firefighters in Rapid Intervention Training
The Woodbury Volunteer Fire Dept engaged in RIT (Rapid Intervention Team) training Tuesday night Feb 18th 2025. Pictured is a drill in which a supposedly injured Firefighter Haden Ware has his empty air bottle swapped for a full one and is prepared for evacuation by fellow Firefighter Tony Delia. Speed is the key in RIT […]