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Special thanks to the PVFFA board for putting together a great family picnic and to all who attended that made the day “Special”.  Mark your calendars for next years picnic, at the Rose Barn Sept 15, 2024.

The following members are not doing well, Donald Dorsey,   Please keep in your prayers, if you know of anyone who

could use “Our Thoughts & Prayers” please let us know.

It is with great sadness that we acknowledge the passing of;

Antonio Balestreri–9/14/2023

Richard M. Cunningham–9/14/2023

Joseph Malaskovitz–8/31/2023

David L. Higgs Jr. –8/23/2023

Francis W. Lippert–8/29/2023

Glade E. Knoch–8/25/2023

(Active) Randolph  (Randy) S. Meyer II  8/19/2023

How can I continue to give when I’m gone?

Suggest to your loved ones that in place of flowers they might consider donating to the Pittsburgh Veteran Firefighters Memorial Fund.  Your family’s donation will help the PVFFA to continue to provide bibles and monetary help to our loved ones.

These were ordinary men and women in a profession that often took them to the edge of disaster. With years of training and practice they learn to overcome their fears, while gaining self-confidence in their abilities. They knew it was inevitable that someday they would come face to face with their own mortality. These Firefighters who work to preserve life and property, and whose shadowy figures would appear among the smoke and flames, struggled daily with the unknown challenges awaiting them. The people they served in the midst of destruction, never knew their names, never knew they had wept in silence for them, and never knew how the years of endless training had not prepared them for the realities of their profession. They were not heroes, just ordinary people doing an extraordinary job.
To these men and women, their only reward was in knowing that they gave their best—they are the Retired Firefighters—people of extraordinary courage—people who gave the very best of themselves to others.