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The Millville Volunteer Fire Company in conjunction with the Bethany-Fenwick Area Chamber of Commerce’s Fire and Ice Festival will hold our 2nd Annual Chili Cook-Off on January 28th, 2023 from 11am – 3pm at Millville VFC Fire Station 1 located at 35554 Atlantic Avenue in Millville, Delaware.

On Saturday January 28, 2023 the Millville Volunteer Fire Company held its 2nd Annual Chili Cook-Off. This year’s event was very well attended with 500 tickets sold.

On Friday afternoon and evening of January 27th, 2023 members of the Millville Volunteer Fire Company were on location at the Millville Boardwalk on Atlantic Avenue in Millville for the “Frozen Boardwalk” event.

Happy Birthday Chief McMahon

The progress of new Tanker 84 continues. Over the several days the apparatus committee took a trip to 4-Guys Fire Apparatus in Meyersdale, Pennsylvania to meet with design engineers and participate in a pre-build engineering conference.

On January 15th, 2023 at 1408 hours the Millville Volunteer Fire Company along with the mutual aid box assignment were dispatched to a reported shed fire in the 32000 block of Lavender Lane west of Clarksville.

At 1444 hours the Millville Volunteer Fire Company along with Roxana VFC and the Sussex County Paramedics were dispatched to a MVC with entrapment on Roxana Road in the area of Sweetgum Lane.

On the evening of January 14th, 2023 the Millville Volunteer Fire Company held its 70th annual banquet and awards night at the Roxana VFC banquet hall.

On January 14th, 2023 at the Millville Volunteer Fire Company Awards night two very special awards were presented by President Gregory Hocker and Past Chief Guy Rickards.

Here are some pictures of our new Peterbilt chassis that has been delivered to 4-Guys in Meyersdale, Pennsylvania. Construction of the body and assembly are scheduled for the next several months.

This week Engine 84-6 went to Bams Hook and Hose Inc. in Denton, Maryland to have our new Holmatro Pentheon Series Rescue Tools mounted.

The Millville Volunteer Fire Company presents our 2022 runs statistics. Our company remains one of the busiest in Sussex County, heavy influenced by growth and the resort nature of our response area.

Thank you to Matt’s LLC Line Striping for “keeping us straight”.

The Millville Volunteer Fire Company would like to thank the Roxana Volunteer Fire Company and Fire Chief Andy Johnson for the temporary loan of Engine 90-1 due to several ongoing maintenance issues with our current capital fleet.

The Millville Volunteer Fire Company welcomes back our 3rd Annual Outdoorsman Marketplace.