Don’t forget to also change your smoke detector batteries and test your Smoke Alarms and CO Alarms.

From our family to yours, we want you to be safe!... (Full Story)

Well over 100 Lower Merion Fire Department members gathered on Wednesday and Monday night at our station to attend our Department wide annual Haz Mat Operations refresher training

This years topics included lithium Ion battery incidents and how to deal with them along with practical stations for multi gas meters, leaking drums / barrels, foam applications and a simulated Haz-Mat incident in a waterway. ... (Full Story & Photos)

Just before lunch time we were dispatched to the Expressway for an Accident with Injuries call along with our brothers and sisters from Belmont Hills Fire Company.
While enroute to that call, the Dispatch center notified us of a vehicle fire on Conshohocken State Road in the area of Hollow Road. Because were going to pass this location going to the first call, Ladder 24 was redirected to the car ... (Full Story & Photos)

Today, your Gladwyne firefighters responded to a reported house fire in the Merion section of the township. Engine 24 responded immediately after dispatch with 7 firefighters as a duty crew. Chief 313, who also serves as AC24 arrived to fire from the lower level of a split level home, prompting the LMFD Working Fire Dispatch (WFD). The WFD added Ladder and Air 24. E24 arrived as the second due engine, ... (Full Story & Photos)

On Thursday evening our very own Chief Blaine Leis was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant with the Upper Merion Police Department. Our Gladwyne Family, and his own, were there to support this career milestone.

Blaine has dedicated himself to public service, not only a Fire Chief, but as a paramedic and law enforcement officer! Not to mention all of those he has mentored and led along the way. ... (Full Story & Photos)