About Belle Valley Station 36
The Belle Valley Fire Department is a volunteer department located in the easternmost section of Millcreek Township in Erie, Pennsylvania. Your Belle Valley Fire Department has been serving the valley for nearly 90 years. With our trained team of nearly 20 active volunteers, we annually respond to an average of 600-plus emergency medical calls, fire suppression calls, vehicle accidents, and rescue situation. We also answer public service calls such as downed wires or trees, and flooded roadways, as well as educate the community on fire safety with events such as National Night Out.
Hopefully, most of you have never met our volunteer emergency first responders, but if you have, you likely will never forget their compassion, bravery, and the pride they take in protecting your homes and the lives of your family. Remember, when you dial 9-1-1, volunteers leave their jobs, their family dinner table, their children’s playtime, and more to respond. Most of our emergency calls take at the minimum an hour from dispatch to completion, followed by paperwork and required reports.
Your Belle Valley volunteers operate from one station and utilize two engines, an aerial tower, one heavy rescue, a QRS/support vehicle, and a reserve ladder truck. We respond to a very diverse region of Erie County including urban, suburban and rural areas. These response districts (both first due and mutual aid) include everything from residential buildings to industrial parks, high rises to farms, entertainment facilities to waterfront –and everything in between.
We work alongside the newly created paid Millcreek Fire Department to provide timely response to the far eastern portion of Millcreek, an area several miles from the closest manned Millcreek fire station.
We are always looking for new members. If you are interested in being a firefighter, emergency medical technician, traffic control, or auxiliary member – we need many types of members to protect our valley. If you’re interested in joining our department in any capacity, including roles that require no fire service training.
Learn more on our Volunteer page
You can also support our efforts to protect and serve the Belle Valley community by donating. You may be wondering why we continue to need your financial support for our Belle Valley volunteers when you are paying a fire tax. Those funds do not make their way to our Belle Valley volunteer department. Moving forward, our department expects to see a 60% cut to public funding, while still answering as many as 600-700 calls per year.
