Welcome to Woodward Township Volunteer Fire Company website. The company was founded on February 23rd 1948. Our primary coverage areas are Woodward and Anthony Townships in Lycoming County, PA. We provide fire, rescue and EMS services. We have a rapid intervention team that serves many local municiplalites. We run two brush trucks and respond to brush and forest fires thougout the area. We operate a hovercraft that serves as our primary water rescue piece for the several miles of the Susquhanna river we cover and is special called all over the area for water rescue needs. Our primary peice of apparatus is Squad 2. This holds all our rescue and firefighting equipment. We have a full compliment of Amkus Rescue tools and rope rescue equipment on that truck.

Our primary source of income is from running Bingo. The department is also supported by a fire tax in Woodward and Anthony Townships. We have numerous other types of fundraisers throughout the year to include tractor pulls and flea markets. We also rent our social hall out for special funtions and auctions.

Notable Moments in department history

February 9, 1948 - 45 men met in Linden to discuss the possibility of starting a volunteer fire company in our Community.

February 23, 1948 - 65 men of the township met in the Linden school to form a Fireman’s Organization. The charter was formed this day and the first officers were elected.

November, 1948 - First bingo game held.

February 28, 1949 - The Charter was closed a year and five days later.

November 23, 1948 - First bingo game was held.

December 3, 1948 - the old East Linden Schoolhouse was purchased.

1949 - First Engine was purchased

October 1950 - a new building was erected

 
1958 - Fire House was dismantled for new Highway 220

1959 - present building was built

October 15 1955  - the 1st mortgage was burned

 1979 - Engine bay built on to firehouse 

August 1993 - 1st Hovercraft purchased

 
January 19, 1996 Hover 2 was destroyed during a rescue operation on Lycoming Creek.

Fall 1996 - Took delivery of new hovercraft

November, 1998 - The fire departments first website went online. The first URL was woodward.billtown.com, a few years later the domain name of woodwardfire.com was purchased. The first host was billtown.com, then the site spent several years hosted at bizland.com. In May of 2008 the site came into the age of web 2.0 moving to yourfirstdue.com as a host.

JUNE 2001 - Took delivery of squad 2

October 2004 - Took Delivery of 2005 Ford Central States Brush Truck

PAST CHIEFS

            Mike Harsch            Art Dutter             William Carpenter      Richard  Fulcrod       

1949               1950-53  & 1961-75         1954-55                    1956        

  Richard Mchale           James Arvin            Don Benn             Scott Scruggs     

       1957-60                 1976-77                1978-85                  1986-87          

Richard Sherretz       Keith Blair

1988-91                 1992-96