PittsburghVeteranFirefighters.org

With the New Year comes hopes of an active 2021, we hope everyone is safe and healthy.

Cancelled—3/13/2021  St Patrick’s Day Parade

Cancelled–4/11/2021–PVFFA Annual Meeting at Local #1’s Union Hall

6/16/2021–PVFFA  LODD Plaque dedication at the Training Academy

8/12/2021— PVFFA  10th Annual Golf Outing–at Birdsfoot Golf  Club–Cost: $125.00

9/10, 11, 12/2021—Cancelled due to lack of interest— 9/11 20th Anniversary trip to New York–Cost $300.00

9/20/2021–Stag Picnic at Banksville Park

10/3/2021— Firefighter Memorial @ Troy Hill–11:00am

11/7/2021–Tony Caiaccia Memorial Mass at St Pauls in Oakland–12:00pm

12/18/2021— PVFFA Christmas Party @ Monte Cello’s–7:00pm

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

John D. Chromey  8/1/2021

Edward P. Petrarulo  8/27/2021

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.