South Newton Twp. Vol. Fire Company #49

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.

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

Sunday December 15 - Santa will arrive at the Firehouse at 1 PM. He will be there until 2 PM for all the kids to stop by and visit santa, have a FREE photo taken and enjoy some snacks as well as getting some small gifts.

The meal for saturday night will be sausage,potatoes and cabbage and cole slaw. We will have plenty of turkeys to give away as well as the normal meat rounds. Dont forget to bring your loyalty card as well as a friend or two. Hope to see you and thanks for your continued support.

Thanks to all those who came out last night to support of fall gun raffle. Tickets for the February raffle should be out by mid December. The following is a list of winners from last evenings drawing.

Ticket drawn out   -  Winning ticket #

1 - 233

50 - 270

100 - 65

150 - 286

200 - 264

250 - 184

287- 66

288 - 116

289 - 135

290 - 245

291 - 287

292 - 179

293 - 113

294 - 40

295 - 11

296 - 207

297 - 215

298 - 114

299 - 126

300 - 292

Yesterday morning shortly after 5 am crew were dispatched for a garage fire. Shortly after dispatch Chief 52 went responding and county advised they received multiple calls of a well involved garage. Chief 52 was in the area with a glow in the sky and requested the working fire dispatch. Engine 49 arrived and assisted with extinguishing the fire and overhaul. Before returning the crew assisted Shippensburg with breaking down the supply lines.

Last Friday Engine 49 was dispatched to Penn Twp, Pine Road and Blue Pond Road for an auto accident, vehicle rolled over with entrapemnet. Units arrived to confirm dispatch. A SUV missed a turn and went into a field several hundred feet over turning several times with entrapement. Crewsextracated the single patient before going available.

The meal for our meat raffle saturday night will be Ham, Green Beans and Potatoes. Don't forget to bring a friend and your loyalty card. Hope to see you saturday. FYI: We will be handing out our 2014 event calanders.