Congratulations to members Bill Vance and Eric Warner on their recent high school graduation. Penncrest High School graduate, Bill, plans on attending Thaddeus Stevens in the fall. Eric, a Marple High School graduate, will be going to Penn State Brandywine in the fall. Good luck to both of you in all of your future endevors.

The officers and members of Lenni Heights Fire Company regret to announce the death of fire company member Francis Lawler. Fran was a twelve year member of the fire company, and will be deeply missed. Fran's son Keith is a firefighter and daughter Jyl is the fire company President. Our thoughts and prayers are with Fran's wife, Susan, and family. Funeral arrangements are as followed:

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Viewing: 8am-10am

Donohue Funeral Home

1627 West Chester Pike

West Chester, PA 19382

Mass: 11am 

Saint Mary Magdalan

2400 N. Providence Road

Media, PA 19063

Interment: St. Peter and Paul

1600 South Sproul Road

Springfield, PA 19064

The officers and members of the Lenni Heights Fire Company would like to thank and congratulate Chief  Jeff Webster and the Huntsville Fire Department on purchasing the Hurst equipment we had for sale. We wish you luck with your new equipment. We also wish you luck with your new rescue purchased from Newtown Square Fire Company.

We would like to wish firefighter Katelyn McHale the best of luck. Katelyn, a two year member of the fire company, left today for boot camp for the United States Air Force. We will miss her but wish her the best. Congrats Katelyn, from your proud Lenni Heights family.

Tonight, members gathered at the Concordville Inn to celebrate our 86th annual banquet. Thank you to our banquet committee and our supporting local businesses for their contributions. The annual banquet is our chance to honor our members who volunteer their time 365 days a year. The top ten responders for 2008 were:

1. Doug Schmidt

2. Joey Bourgeois

3. Nick Benegar

4. John Rowley

5. JJ Bonsall

 6.Ian Tully

7. Bill Richardson

8. PJ Mchale

9.Paul Zippi

10.Frank Kimmel

Chief Engineer's Award was received by Nick Benegar. Vinnie Soster was awarded the Chief's Award. President's Award was given to Michelle Zachar. The Firefighter of the Year Award, which is voted upon by the active members, was awarded to Joey Bourgeois. Special thanks to Leedom Fire Company and Newtown Square Fire Company for covering our station.

Over 6 inches of snow fell today covering all road surfaces  making driving difficult at best. Even with the snow covered roads the 54 crew only had two calls to go to today, one of which was an MVA in our local on Rt. 452. Upon arrival we found the occupant of the car out of the vehicle and suffering from mild pain from the air bag and seat belts.

  The crew spent the rest of the day doing their daily tasks around the station as well as cooking dinner for themselves. Over the past two nights the crew got to find out which of our lieutenants was the better cook, with 54-13(Tully) cooking for the crew last night and 54-13a(Bourgeois) cooking dinner tonight.

The crew at Lenni spent the day today on a cover assignment to 52(Brookhaven) for the second time this week, and getting ready for the snow storm tonight with up to 12"  of the white stuff expected. With this much snow call volume is expected to go up and a crew will be staffing the station for the night. Try your best to not drive on the roads until they are clear so you can avoid becoming a call tonight.

Congratulations to our fire company President, Jyl Lawler. Jyl just received an Associate of Science in Business Administration, and an Associate of Arts in Communication, from Delaware County Community College. Good job Jyl!

At around 6:45pm, Company 69(Lima), Squad 54, and Medic 104-7(RMH EMS) were dispatched to the 100 block of Yearsley Mill road for the accident. Squad 54 landed first and reported 1 vehicle into a tree involving a deer. There were no injuries and crews secured the vehicle. Shortly after returning, the accident assignment was hit out again for the unit block of South New Middletown Road involving a deer. 69-2 and Squad 54 arrived to find a 3 vehicle crash with a deer trapped under the vehicle. It was determined that the deer had expired and crews focused on securing the vehicle. There were also no injuries.

The Lenni Heights Fire Company would like to thank Newtown Square Fire Company and Lansdowne Fire Company for covering our local from 0600-1800 today while crews attended the funeral for Past President Richard Zachar. Covers responded to 1 emergency as Task Force 54.