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Welcome to the official website of the Adams County Volunteer Emergency Services Association.

The Adams County Volunteer Emergency Services Association (ACVESA) is exactly that, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing quality emergency services to the residents and workers of Adams County.

ACVESA is comprised of the members of our member fire departments. Each member has a vital role in steering the direction of the association for the good of the county. We are a 501(c)(3) organization.

 

Firefighters Ball

February 25, 2012
Cocktails @ 5:45 - Dinner @ 6:45

Held at the Historic Gettysburg Hotel
$35/Person or $65/Couple

Click here for award requirements and nomination forms


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Operation Save-A-Life

Rescue 22The ACVESA has teamed up with WHTM in Harrisburg to provide low income and those less fortunate with free smoke detectors. We have been given 200 smoke detectors to give to Departments


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Responder Safety

Should There be a Mandatory Retirement Age for Volunteer Firefighters?

November 8, 2011

Early this year, two volunteer firefighters in their 80s died in the line-of-duty. Their deaths should start a discussion that many firefighters and fire chiefs find difficult to have in a calm and professional manner: Should a volunteer firefighter retire, and should there be a mandatory retirement age for volunteers?

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