Lower Yoder Vol Fire Dept

10/15/2026

🚗 LITTLE PASSENGERS. BIG RESPONSIBILITY. ❤️

The snacks are packed. The favorite toy is aboard. Before you roll, check the most important thing: their car seat!

CAR SEAT SAFETY BASICS

✅ REAR-FACING
Keep children rear-facing until they reach the car seat manufacturer’s maximum height or weight limit.

✅ FORWARD-FACING
Once they outgrow the rear-facing seat, use a forward-facing seat with a harness and tether until they reach its limits.

✅ BOOSTER SEAT
Continue using a booster until the vehicle seat belt fits properly:

• Lap belt lies across the upper thighs.
• Shoulder belt rests across the shoulder and chest.

✅ BACK SEAT
Children younger than 13 should ride in the back seat.

BEFORE YOU GO

📖 Follow both:

• The car seat instructions
• Your vehicle owner’s manual

Choose each stage based on your child’s size and the seat’s limits—not birthdays alone.

NEED A CAR SEAT INSPECTION?

👩‍🚒 A Child Passenger Safety Technician is available for car seat inspections.

Contact Valley Training & Consulting to schedule an inspection or request more information.

LEARN MORE

🔎 Find seat-selection guidance and a nearby car seat inspection location:

https://www.nhtsa.gov/vehicle-safety/car-seats-and-booster-seats

Right seat. Right fit. Every trip. 💚

10/14/2026

🥪🍕 STATION 23 HAS YOUR LUNCH PLANS HANDLED! 🍕🥪

Your refrigerator has disappointed you enough this week. Let the Lower Yoder Volunteer Fire Department help! 😂

📅 Saturday, October 24
⏰ 9:00 AM until sold out
📍 515 Fairfield Avenue, Johnstown

💲 $10 each — pizza or an 18-inch ham sub!

🥪 Ham subs — with or without onions. Choose wisely depending on who you plan to talk to afterward.

🍕 Pepperoni, Meat Lovers, or Cheese pizza. Because “I’ll just have one slice” is a lie we’ve all told ourselves.

Grab lunch, feed the family, or buy an 18-inch sub and confidently announce, “This is meal prep.”

Come early! Once we sell out, all we’ll have left are crumbs, bad jokes, and firefighters asking whether anybody saved them one. 🚒😂

Thank you for supporting Lower Yoder VFD Station 23!

10/14/2026

Special thanks to AC Beers for a great class tonight and thanks to Westmoreland County station 47 for showing up. We hope everybody had fun and most importantly learned something.

10/12/2026

🦃🚒 THE TURKEYS ARE NERVOUS. THE BACON IS CRISPY. THE 23 CREW IS UNSUPERVISED. 😂

Join us for the Lower Yoder Volunteer Fire Company Annual Holiday Raffle! Come hang out with your favorite firefighters, enjoy some laughs, and try to bring home dinner!

Prizes:
🦃 5 turkeys
🥓 5 bacon prizes — 5 lbs. each
🌭 5 kielbasa prizes — 5 lbs. each
🍖 5 ham prizes — 5 lbs. each

🎟️ Rippy tickets and a 50/50!
🍽️ Food and beverages available for purchase!

Rip some tickets, grab a bite, and harass the 23 Crew a little—we’ve been training for that part our entire lives. 😂

📅 Friday, November 13, 2026
🕖 7:00 PM
📍 Lower Yoder Fire Hall
515 Fairfield Ave., Johnstown, PA 15906
🎟️ $1.00 raffle ticket donation

Bring your friends and your best turkey jokes. If you win the ham, please resist telling everyone you “brought home the bacon.” We have actual bacon for that. 🥓🤣

Share this post and help support your local volunteer firefighters!

No purchase necessary. Purchase does not increase odds of winning.
SGOC #26-319

10/12/2026

10/04/2026

🏇 THE HORSES HAVE LEFT THE BUILDING… AND THANKFULLY, SO HAS THE MANURE! 💩😂

Everyone at Lower Yoder Volunteer Fire Department sends a HUGE thank-you to everyone who made our Night at the Races a success!

👏 To everyone who attended: Thanks for cheering, laughing, and yelling at imaginary horses like they could actually hear you!

🤝 To our sponsors: Your generosity helped keep this event running—even when some of the horses apparently stopped for snacks halfway down the track.

❤️ To our volunteers and helpers: From setup to the final cleanup, you made it all happen. The 23 Crew couldn’t do it without you!

🧹 To the brave souls who cleaned up after the horses: You deserve a trophy, a fresh pair of boots, and possibly a confidential meeting about your life choices. 😂

🏆 To our winners: Congratulations! Enjoy your winnings and your temporary status as professional horse-racing experts. To everyone else… clearly your horse was saving its energy for next year.

Thank you for supporting LYVFD Station 23 and spending your evening with us!

🏇 Join us next year for another Night at the Races! More laughs, more questionable horse names, and another opportunity to shout, “THAT’S MY HORSE!” right before it finishes last. 🍻😂