Ellicott Creek Volunteer Fire Company

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Ellicott Creek Volunteer Fire Company

Ellicott Creek Volunteer Fire Company 100 % Volunteer and Dedicated to serving the residents of the Town of Amherst and The Town of Tonawanda since 1945.
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01/03/2020

Clarence Fire Company

Come join a great organization and give back to your community!

12/25/2019

Merry Christmas!!!

12/22/2019

First off we want to thank all of our residents who came out saw Santa and donated food tonight! We love to have Santa going around our district passing out candy canes. Seeing the faces of the kids are wonderful! All of the food will be donated as we do every year to St. Christopher’s Food Pantry!
As with every year. A huge Thank You to Boy Scout Troops 58 and 173 who have participated with us for many years. They hand out the flyers in Willowridge and Tonawanda and are here to collect the food through the entire district.
A Thank You to the Empire United Soccer Academy U10 and U13. They offered this year to come out and help sort and pack food. They did an amazing job!!!
To our firefighters and there families for being here to take Santa around and see as many of our residents and kids as possible, Thank You. We love to be out in our district helping our residents in there time of need.
We would also like to thank Just Pizza on Niagara Falls Blvd. for donating pizza and wings for everybody who helped tonight!
As you can see from the pictures, it takes a lot of people to make this happen. And by the amount of food in the truck, this was another record breaking year!!

Thank You!!
Chief Osika

12/21/2019

Santa is on His Way,

12/16/2019

Congers Fire Department

As you begin to decorate for the holidays, please stay safe and water your Christmas tree daily! This video shows just how quickly a dried out Christmas tree fire burns, as compared to a well-watered tree, which burns at a much slower rate. Watering your tree daily will ensure we don't have to water it for you. Please have a safe holiday season!

12/10/2019

Fire Department Chronicles

A perfect video for all of our community to watch. Have a look, very worth the three minutes!

Learn how to save someone's life and laugh at the same time!!
Sharing this video could LITERALLY save someone's life.

12/07/2019

The following are the appointed positions for the year of 2020..

Firematic Lieutenants:
Alicia May
Gary Reed
Brandon Vizzi

EMS Lieutenant:
Charles Greenberg.

Dive Captain:
Mike Collins

Dive Lieutenant:
Russ Stith

Firematic Clerk:
Zach Buresch

Congratulations to all!

12/03/2019

The following are the results from our 2020 elections:

Chief: Joe Osika
First Assistant Chief: Paul Dusel
Second Assistant Chief: Ryan MacDougall

Captains:
Chris Robinson
Bob Zacher
Roger Brennan

President: Brian Wildrick
Vice President: Patrick Rosner
Chairman of the Board: Rich Eggleston

Board of Directors:
Dan DeMeester
Mike O’Neil
Jim Meier
Phil Asarese

Treasurer: Len Drabinski
Financial Secretary: Joe Vitthuhn
Recording Secretary: Debbie Adams
Corresponding Secretary: Ron Smeller

Congratulations to all, appointed positions are to be followed at a later date! Thank you to everyone who ran for positions!

11/30/2019

We are set and ready to roll in the Christmasville Parade.

11/30/2019

And the final November Raffle Number is

408

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11/29/2019

Today’s Raffle Number is

720

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11/29/2019

Happy Thanksgiving to all again!! After spending time with our families carving our turkeys and watching the Buffalo Bills carve up the Dallas Cowgirls, here is our second raffle drawing off of the evening number. Good Luck

937

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11/28/2019

Happy Thanksgiving to all!! We have two raffle numbers today. Below is the midday number. Will post the evening number tonight.

712

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11/27/2019

Today’s Raffle Number is

341

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11/26/2019

Today’s Raffle Number is

839

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11/25/2019

Today’s Raffle Number is

047

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11/24/2019

Today’s Raffle Number is

962

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11/23/2019

Today’s Raffle Number is

748

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11/22/2019

Today’s Raffle Number is

363

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11/21/2019

Today’s Raffle Number is

842

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11/20/2019

Today’s Raffle Number is

324

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11/19/2019

Today’s Raffle Number is

282

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11/18/2019

Today’s Raffle Number is

758

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11/17/2019

Today’s Raffle Number is

702

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11/16/2019

Today’s Raffle Number is

108

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11/15/2019

Today’s Raffle Number is

641

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11/14/2019

Today’s Raffle Number is

646

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11/13/2019

Today’s Raffle Number is

934

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11/12/2019

Today’s Raffle Number is

623

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11/11/2019

Today’s Raffle Number is

212

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11/10/2019

Today’s Raffle Number is

830

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11/09/2019

Today’s Raffle Number is

424

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11/08/2019

Today’s Raffle Number is

465

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Please help out the Elementary School’s in our fire district, thank you in advance!

11/08/2019

Weather Machine

Please help out the Elementary School’s in our fire district, thank you in advance!

Vote in for your school in Andy Parker's Weather Machine Contest! New contests will occur throughout the school year. Watch 7 Eyewitness News from 4:30 - 7:00 a.m. to see which schools are in the lead as well as extra credit pictures and projects from your school!

11/07/2019

Today’s Raffle Number is

519

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11/06/2019

Today’s Raffle Number is

351

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11/05/2019

We have been messaged by quite a few asking for us to not post there name if they win. With that in mind, we will only post the daily number from now on and will notify the winner by email or cell.

AND HERE IS TODAYS WINNING NUMBER
Check your tickets!!!

654

11/04/2019

*** UPDATED***
Sorry for the delay.
Today’s Helmet Raffle number is

499

This ticket was not sold and is owned by the Fire Company

11/03/2019

Today’s Helmet Raffle number is

668

Winner is Charles Greenburg

11/02/2019

****Update****
Today’s Helmet Raffle number is

900

This ticket was not sold. No winner today

11/02/2019

Our Officers and Firefighters wish to express our deepest condolences to our Brother and Sister Firefighters of the Getzville Fire Company on the LODD death of Past Chief Irv Isenberg. We offer our thoughts and prayers to his family and friends. Irv was an amazing man who has left an unbelievable mark and legacy on Emergency Services in the Town of Amherst and the WNY area. Chief you will be missed. Rest Easy and we will take it from here.

Line of Duty Death
Irving Isenberg
12/17/1963-11/1/2019

November 1, 2019 - The following statement is from Daniel Cownie, Assistant Chief of the Getzville Fire Company.

It is with profound sadness and heartache that the Getzville Fire Company family announces the passing of our friend and colleague, Irving Isenberg. Irv was a member of the Getzville Fire Company for 29 years and held the offices of Fire Chief from 2007-2011 and President from 2016-2018. Irv was a part of a state-wide mutual aid deployment to Ground Zero after the September 11th attacks. Irv was one of four Getzville firefighters stationed at Albany Street and West Street, a mere block away from Ground Zero. After being diagnosed with job-related cancer from his heroic efforts in lower Manhattan, Irv's last few weeks were spent with family and friends as he battled until the very end. Irv was surrounded by the ones he loved, and was in the thoughts and prayers of his friends, coworkers and the many lives that he touched over his 35-year career as a first responder.

Irv leaves behind his loving wife, Lisa; his two sisters Susan Boyar, Ruth Lipsitz; his mother Alice Isenberg; his stepchildren Jeffrey Costa, Aaron (Brittany) Costa, and his granddaughter Olivia Costa.

Arrangements will be forthcoming.

"Red" Porch Light Vigil
We are asking the community to turn on your porch light and use a red bulb to honor Past Chief Isenberg and all firefighters who lost their lives in the line of duty for the duration of November.

11/01/2019

*****UPDATE*****
First Drawing for the helmet Raffle.
NYS Daily Midday (afternoon) number is

923
Winner is Kim Palmer!!!

10/26/2019

We would like to congratulate retiring Amherst Fire Control Dispatcher William Orr on his 36 years of unbelievable service to the Firefighters and residents of the Town of Amherst. Bill was always a welcome and calming voice on the other end of the radio. There was never a question that if you asked for something on the radio that he was more than likely already two steps ahead of us. Again Congratulations Billy on your retirement and we wish you all the best!!!

10/26/2019

Always happy to come out for our community events.

10/06/2019

Four Members of our Honor Guard are currently in Emmitsburg, MD at the National Fallen Firefighter’s Memorial Weekend supporting family members of this years fallen firefighters. Past Chief Pete Calandra, Firefighter Ed Reichard, Firefighter Robert McGinley and Firefighter Michael Collins.

Address

45 S Ellicott Creek Rd
Amherst, NY
14228

Telephone

(716) 691-7439

Website

http://www.ecvfd.org

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Videos

We completed the sale this evening of our old E1, a 1992 Pierce Lance to the Forestville Fire Department in Chautauqua County. Chief Kyle Barthel picked her up and is making the delivery to his members. We wish them luck as she has served us well for many years and will serve them well for many years to come. Safe Travels!!

Video from our open house burn demonstration this afternoon. First burn was put out by our members, second burn was put out with simulating a sprinkler in the home. Thanks to everybody who came out to our open house today, we hope you had a great time and learned something!

FIRST ANNUAL MEAT RAFFLE

Earlier this evening we received a Still Alarm from Amherst Fire to assist in rescuing a few ducklings from a receiver in the parking lot of Classics on Niagara Falls Blvd. Assistant Chief Stith along with Lieutenants Bob Zacher and Chris Robinson arrived and worked to remove the 6 Ducklings from the receiver and reunite them with Mama Duck. With all of the calls we take on a daily basis, whether with good outcomes or bad, it always helps to have a good out of the ordinary rescue to make us smile a bit more. Thank You to Traci Bissonette for the videos that she sent over.

A lot of posting this weekend as it was a busy one. Last one. Below is helmet camera video from FF Mike Frase. First in attack line from the fire at 192 Glenhaven Drive. Had to edit it down due to length. But it gives you a great sense of what our firefighters encounter inside a structure fire.

While number of our interior firefighters are attending G.R.I.T at Getzville fire Station. Our officers took time to work with some of our new members on some of the skills to get them ready for basic exterior/ interior fire fighting classes.

192 Glenhaven Drive 4/13/18

Video from our Motor Vehicle Fire yesterday morning In front of Wegmans on Niagara Falls Blvd. A little background music as the Chief forgot to turn his stereo down. Great job by the crew of Engine 1.

Our Rescue 5 and Engine 3 Responding to an MVA this evening. We currently have a crew standing by at the Hall, as we are covering a portion of the Getzville Fire District until 07:00 tomorrow morning. Our Brothers and Sisters from Getzville are spending the evening celebrating there 101st Annual Installation of Officers.

Willowridge "Win A Ride to School on a Fire Truck" 2017

Today we had the pleasure of giving Kamnden A ride to school on a fire truck. He entered to win our contest at our Annual Fire Prevention Open House back in October..

Live Burn

open house 2017!

Dive Rescue 1 Certification Recap 2017

Last weekend Divers from the Ellicott Creek Volunteer Fire Company, Getzville Fire Company, Amherst Police Department, and Ontario County Sheriff's Department attended a four day certification class. This 4 day class was taught by Instructor Steve Wilson of Dive Rescue International-Public Safety, Here is a recap of the teams during thier training. A great job was done by all and the knowledge will enable the teams to provide a more advanced response to water emergencies in their districts and neighboring communities and counties.

ECVFD 2016 Recap Video

Our Recap Video for 2016.Produced by a team of our firefighters, Visit our web page to see our other videos.

Open House starts in just under 1 hour. Come down and see us.

Our new Rosenbauer Has arrived!!!!

Here is the video of our Extrication Team in action during our Fire Prevention Open House. Excellent job!

Here is the video of our Live Burn Demonstration. Notice the smoke alarm goes on very quickly but stops around the 2:30 mark. This really emphasized the importance of getting out and staying out during a fire situation. Recent studies have shown that you have less than 3 minutes to escape and this backs up that information. Working Smoke detectors really do save lives.