Local Fire Department Donates Ambulance to Long Island Firefighters
After Super Storm Sandy, Falls Church Volunteer Fire Department gives vehicle to another volunteer fire department on Long Island that lost nearly everything.
The Island Park Volunteer Fire Department in New York lost just about all of its fire apparatus during Super Storm Sandy. But Monday, the Falls Church Volunteer Fire Department, which also serves Arlington County, helped its volunteer fire department brethren on Long Island put their firehouse back together. The volunteer fire company, which is on the Falls Church-Arlington County border, is taking a 2002 Freightliner/Medic Master reserve ambulance that had been up for sale and instead giving it to the company in Long Island. “It was the day after Sandy went through and I saw on a fire blog that several fire departments on Long Island lost apparatus,” Falls Church Volunteer Fire Department spokesman Frank Bellavia said. “I knew this was …
