Grove City's Volunteer Fire Service

Grove City's volunteer fire service began with an organizational meeting on September 21, 1904. The borough supplied the initial equipment: hose cart, hook and ladder cart, a hose, axes, crowbars. During the first year, a baseball game and a pie social were held to raise money for the department. During the early years of the volunteer fire department, a big event was the Hose Cart Races held on Broad Street on the Fourth of July. In 1916 the department received its first motorized fire equipment, built by Bessemer Truck Co. located on East Pine Street, at a cost of $2000.

Grove City, Pennsylvania · United States