Dust off those LEGOS® (other compatible plastic bricks and elements) and start building your original fire truck for the "Design Your Fire Truck LEGO® Contest" which will be held during Open House on Sunday, October 9, 2022. Click here for contest guidelines and entry information.
Installing sprinklers and smoke alarms in your home increases your chance of surviving a fire by more than 82 percent. Safer fire service: The risk to firefighters is much less. Sprinklers reduce the heat, flame and smoke from a fire. Fast response: Home fire sprinklers are more sensitive to heat than [...]
The next Pancake Breakfast is scheduled for Sunday, September 11th from 8am - Noon. Tickets can be purchased at the door or you may pre-purchase your tickets by clicking here.
We are proud to have selected Daniel E. Carroll II as AVFRD’s new Executive Director. Daniel holds a degree in business and education and brings with him an abundance of experience through non-profit executive leadership, as well as fire and rescue knowledge. He most recently joins us from Project [...]
Come run with Ashburn Volunteer Fire & Rescue Department (AVFRD) on Saturday, October 1st for our 4th Annual Point-to-Point 5K race! Join AVFRD and our friends at House 6 Brewery for a point to point evening 5K that will be fun for the whole family. The 5K will start at 4:00pm [...]
July 15th is Pet Fire Safety Day, and we would like to share some tips to keep you and your four-legged family members safe. According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), approximately 500,000 pets are affected by fires every year; and, the NFPA estimates that 500 to 1,000 [...]
Join us on July 10th at the Ashburn Fire Station for our Pancake Breakfast. We start serving at 8am and end at Noon. Tickets can be purchased at the door or can be pre-purchased. For more information or to pre-purchase your tickets, please visit Pancake Breakfast. [...]
AVFRD was excited to participate in both the Leesburg and Purcellville's 4th of July parades yesterday! Thank you to all the volunteers who drove the rigs and those who were along for the ride. [...]
Last night, LCCFRS held the graduation ceremony at Heritage High School for the 66 system members who took and completed the Spring 2022 Firefighter I-II, EMT, and AEMT classes. AVFRD had 16 members who graduated: 3 from Firefighter I-II, 11 from EMT, and 2 from AEMT. In addition, AVFRD's [...]
Did you know? More than 19,500 reported files are started by fireworks annually. Burns account for 44% of the 9,100 injuries treated in emergency rooms seen in the month around July 4th? Half of the fireworks injuries seen at emergency rooms were extremities: hand, finger, or leg. One-third were [...]
