South Newton Twp. Vol. Fire Company #49

The meal for the Meat Raffle saturday night is Sausage sandwiches cooked on the Bar-B-Q pit or Meatball Sandwich and Soup. This is the last Meat Raffle for the spring and we will resume in September. Come out and bring a friend or two along and have a good evening while supporting a VOLUNTEER Fire Company. As always we appreciate your continued support.

On Tuesday crews responded to an accident on Furnace Hollow Road in the area of Foreman Mill Road, a pick up truck into a pole

Sunday morning units were dispatched to North Newton Twp at the intersection of Oakville Rd and Newville Rd.

Saturday started out around noon with an outside investigation. Brush 149 along with Chief 149 responded and found a grass fire that had melted the siding on the back of garage, the homeowner had most of the fire knocked down. Brush 49 sprayed down the area before returning to quarters. The second call was in West Pennsboro Twp at Big Spring Terrace for an odor of gas, Company 49 was placed in service while enroute. The last call of the day started out with an investigation of smoke from the mountain in the area of High Mt. Road. First arriving units found an unattended  controlled burn that had about 3 acres of mountain on fire. 2 additional brush trucks were requested to assist with a line while Engine 49 extinguished the pile that started the fire.

We would like to thank everyone who came out saturday night and made it a record night, thanks again for your continued support and look foward to seeing you in April. We will be having Sausage sandwiches and Meatball Sandwiches. The full menu will be posted closer to time.

The Meal for this saturday night will be Hot Turkey or Beef Sandwich, Mashed Potatoes and Peas and dessert. Dont forget to bring your loyalty card and a friend or two. Hope to see you Saturday night and thanks for your continued support.

Saturday night March 1st Engine 49 assisted Company 50 with a fatal crash on Lebo Road. I subject was flown and 1 was out of the vehicle on his own. Engine 49 crew assisted with extrication of the front seat passanger before being released by command 50. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all effected by this tragedy.

Dont forget with the changing of your clock, change your battery in your smoke detectors tommorrow night.

The Auxiliary still has tickets available for this sunday for there Longaberger/Gourd Bingo. Tickets are $25 and includes a meal of Turkey, mashed potatoes, green beans, desert and snacks as well as 20 games of bingo. Ther will also be small games of chance for money and baskets. Contact any auxiliary member or call the firehouse and leave a message.

YES our Meat Raffle is still on for this evening. Hope to see you

The meal for saturday night will be Spaghetti, Meatballs and Salad. Come out and enjoy the evening supporting your local fire company. Dont forget your loyalty cards!!!

We would like to thank all those who came out last evening and supported our Gun Raffle. The winners are as follows:

Ticket Drawn followed by the winning ticket # - 1 - 60, 50 - 76, 100 - 21, 150 - 242, 200 - 185, 250 - 121, 287 - 282, 288 - 145, 289 - 144, 290 - 35, 291 - 182, 292 - 155, 293 - 198, 294 - 95, 295 - 99, 296 - 283, 297 - 256, 298 - 67, 299 - 58, 300 - 83

This Saturday night is the first meat raffle of the new year. Make sure to come out to get a new loyalty card and try to win one of our new ORANGE reusable bags. As always we will have meat rounds and fish bowls along with plenty of door prizes. The meal will be choice of pork or beef bar-b-q sandwich, mac & cheese and green beans along with desert. Hope to see you saturday night and dont forget to bring a friend.

It is with heavy hearts to announce that Charter/life member David Mcbeth passed on last evening. The viewing will be held at Fogelsanger-Bricker Funeral home in Shippensburg on Wednesday January 22 from 6-8 and the funeral services will be on Thursday January 23 at 2 pm.

Come support our Fire Police on Saturday December 28 for the Breakfast Meat Raffle. If you have ever been to any of our monthly meat raffles it is ran like them but the doors open at 7 am. FREE breakfast is served around 8 am and the raffle starts at 9 am. Raffle should be done by 11 am. Come on out for a morning of fun while supporting a good cause.

We will be doing a Special raffle for shrimp and a New Years party pack. We will also be doing the 1/2 raffle at the end of the night along with 5 whole boneless Pork Loins w/sauerkraut for your New Years celebration

Meal: Scrambled Eggs, Sausage Patty, Bacon, Homefries, Toast, OJ and Fultons Dairy Chocolate Milk