A volunteer fire company in Juniata County has found an innovative solution to combat rising equipment costs while maintaining essential emergency services for local residents. Thompsontown ...

the Live Oaks No. 1 volunteer fire association, organized in 1829. Its equipment, obtained in 1833, was a hand-operated fire engine—an improvement over the cisterns and buckets used prior to that time ...

Thompsontown Volunteer Fire Company recently acquired a used fire engine at a fraction of the cost of purchasing a new apparatus, saving Juniata County taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars ...