To the Community we serve,

Since the beginning of January 2022, we have been working diligently at building the foundation for a regionalized fire and EMS company. We are excited to announce that on September 11, 2023, the Kinzer Fire Company and Gordonville Fire & EMS merged to provide emergency services to the community as Station 40, Pequea Valley Fire Department. As of today, September 28th, at 2pm the Lancaster County 911 center has officially retired the individual station identifications of Gordonville Fire and EMS Station 43 and the Kinzer Fire Company Station 45 and placed the Pequea Valley Fire Department Station 40 in service. Both companies will continue to serve the community's needs from their current locations with no services being interrupted.

As we interact with you and many people who travel through our area, we recognize that things are changing at a fast pace. The needs of our community and how we respond to them have been one of these changes and we find ourselves needing to be more proactive in how we move forward with providing emergency services. Price increases, the decrease in the number of volunteers and current events are just a few of the reasons that working together would benefit everyone we serve. As we join together as PVFD, we will be able to collaborate better within Fire and EMS incidents, have more opportunities to train together, and we will have better purchasing power as we make the necessary purchases for multiple stations. Our desire is to have what we need in order to tend to most emergencies without wasting money on duplicate purchases of apparatus that a neighboring company may already have and not promoting the construction of multi-million dollar buildings that are all within a few miles from each other. Depending on what type of fire apparatus, it could cost over one million dollars and a new ambulance could cost over four hundred thousand.

With this in mind, we wanted to let you know that we are still going to hold our community sales and other fund raising activities at both Kinzer and Gordonville locations. We appreciate all of the support throughout the years and we look forward to developing the relationships even more while we move forward as PVFD. If you are interested in how we operate, want to visit one of the locations or want to know how you can get involved with EMS or Fire service to your community, please contact us at 717-768-3869.

Along with a new station name and station number, comes a new Board of Directors, new officer positions and apparatus and ambulance call signs that are all listed below. Please make note of these changes.

Board Of Directors:
President- AJ King
Vice President- Amos Stoltzfus
Treasurer- Daniel Beiler
Membership Secretary- Heidi Smith
Member at Large- Jonathan Fisher
Chief of Department- Tony Kauffman
Property Chairman- Kevin Quillin
Fundraising Chairman- Gideon Fisher
Community Representative- TBD

Fire:
Chief 40- Tony Kauffman
Deputy 40- Doug Brubaker
Chief 403- Ivan Ebersol
Chief 405- John Mark Stoltzfus
Captain 403- J. Elmer Esh
Captain 405- Dave Anderson
Captain 40- Acting Duty Officer (Past officers, filling in as duty officer)
Lieutenant 403- Johnny Fisher
Lieutenant 405- Amos Beiler Jr
Sergeant 403- Ryan Kauffman
Sergeant 405- Ivan King
Fire Police Captain 405- Manny Stoltzfus
Fire Police Lieutenant 405- Rick Cummings

EMS:
EMS Chief 40- Nissa Stoltzfus
EMS Captain 40- Dave Johnson
EMS Lieutenant 40- Jonathan Ebersol
EMS Sergeant 40- Mel Ebersol

Floating Apparatus:
Fire Duty Officer - Fire Command Vehicle
EMS Supervisor - EMS Command Vehicle

Station 403 Apparatus:
Engine 403 (formerly Engine 43-1)
Truck 403 (formerly Truck 43)
Squad 403 (formerly Squad 43-1)
Special Unit 403 (formerly Special Unit 43)
UTV 403 (formerly UTV 43)

Station 405 Apparatus:
Engine 405 (formerly Engine 45-2)
Tanker 405 (formerly Tanker 45)
Squad 405 (formerly Squad 45-1)
UTV 405 (formerly UTV 45)

EMS Units:
Ambulance 401 (formerly Ambulance 43-1)
Ambulance 402 (formerly Ambulance 43-2)
Ambulance 403 (formerly Ambulance 43-3)
Ambulance 404 (formerly Ambulance 43-4) - Currently housed at station 44.
QRS 40 (formerly QRS 43-1)

We look forward to working alongside you as always and look forward to what the future holds for PVFD. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to reach out.

Here to serve,

Pequea Valley Fire Department