The Fire & Emergency Services Board (FESB) was created in July 2007. The FESB is comprised of the fire chief (or their designee) from each volunteer fire company serving Upper Providence Township. Additionally, a member of the Mont Clare Fire Company, a member of the Oaks Fire Company, the Township Emergency Management Coordinator, and 3 appointed civilian members are also included on the FESB.
The primary function of the FESB is to make recommendations to the Township Board of Supervisors on topics such as:
- Capital apparatus and equipment specifications and purchases
- Financial allocations
- Department training policies and procedures
- Department standard operating procedures
- Emergency response districts and response procedures
- Fire department staffing and the volunteer recruitment and retention program
Fire and Emergency Services Board Members
- Charles Frankenfield
- Joseph Kukucka, Emergency Management Coordinator
- Jay Murphy
- Jeff Wentworth, Alternate
- Charles Palmer
- Dale Sims
- James Daywalt, Vice Chairman
- David Mosteller
- Robert Greenwood
- John Wentworth III, Alternate
- Dave Panetta
- Craig Keffer, Alternate
- Chas Chell
- Bill Latch, Alternate
- Geoff Grace
- Frank Colelli
Over the past two years the Fire and Emergency Services Board (FESB) has made tremendous strides and developed recommendations that have led to improved communication and coordination among the 6 fire companies servicing Upper Providence Township.
Since 2007 the FESB has been instrumental in developing the following:
- Monthly joint training exercises among the companies
- Basic levels of training for firefighters and officers
- Standardizing call response throughout the township
- Establishing a more equitable distribution of township monies based on a schedule of calls
- Creating a volunteer incentive program and a developing a distribution program for volunteer incentive monies based on level of training and responses
Thank you to those members that serve on this board. To achieve our goal of bringing the best emergency services to the community and township, we encourage those who support this process to continue to work on the objectives and goals laid out in the emergency service studies.