Cranberry Fire Station Expansion Completed

CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, PA - Cranberry's new expanded Park Fire Station on Route 19 next to Community Park will be formally dedicated on May 11 at 11:15 a.m. An open house from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. will include tours and a complimentary pancake breakfast.

The first floor has administrative offices, a kitchen, a conference room, and several work rooms for preparing incident reports. Those same work rooms, complete with wireless Internet, can also be used to accommodate daytime volunteers who are able to do their regular jobs online, allowing for quicker responses.

The second floor houses overnight dormitory-style rooms for volunteers, also allowing for quicker emergency call responses.

The expansion also has a glass-enclosed exhibit room at the building’s front to showcases the fire company’s first engine – a 1928 Pirsch pumper, purchased from another community’s fire department following 30 years of use, shortly after Cranberry’s company was formed in 1959. It was later restored to showroom condition by fire company members under the leadership of firefighter Jim Cole.