On Wednesday, November 30th, Kennett Fire Company Fire Fighters Joseph Wendling and Michael Casson graduated from Chester County Fire Training Academy with Firefighter 1 certification. The Pennsylvania Entry Level Firefighter curriculum is composed of four separate courses that together require 188 hours of both classroom and hands-on training. The training at times is rigorous and includes several ... (Full Story & Photos)

Around 8:15am on Sunday, November 13th, Kennett Fire Company and Longwood Fire Company were dispatched for an automobile accident on the northbound Route 1 By-Pass in the area of mile-marker 21.7. Crews arrived to find one vehicle off the roadway and into the treeline just north of the Route 82 on-ramp to northbound Route 1, with one patient trapped. The patient was checked and determined to be deceased. ... (Full Story & Photos)

At 7:20pm on Wednesday, November 2, 2022, Kennett Fire Company responded to assist Po-Mar-Lin Fire Company and Longwood Fire Company with an accident near the intersection of Green Valley Road and W. Doe Run Road in East Marlborough Township. It was reported that a vehicle went off the roadway and into a ditch. Kennett's Chief 24, Engine 24, Rescue 24, and fire police responded to the scene.

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At 2:51am on Saturday, October 22nd, Kennett Fire Company, Longwood Fire Company, and Hockessin Fire Company were dispatched for an automobile accident with a vehicle overturned on Chandler Mill Road near Ewart Road. The overnight volunteer duty crew sleeping at the station responded within one minute of being dispatched.

Engine 24 arrived at the scene to find one vehicle on its side with no occupants. ... (Full Story & Photos)

At 10:12pm on Thursday, October 20, 2022, Kennett Fire Company and other mutual aid, were dispatched to assist Avondale Fire Company at a fire in the 100 block of Rocky Springs Road in New Garden Township. Kennett's crews provided manpower and assisted with overhaul while working at the scene for about two hours.

Kennett's fire police assisted with traffic control for the duration of the incident.

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On Monday, September 26th, Kennett Fire Company assisted Longwood Fire Company at a reported hit-and-run accident with entrapment near the intersection of Bayard Road and Baltimore Pike in East Marlborough Township. Crews arrived to find one vehicle on its roof on Bayard Road at Baltimore Pike with no entrapment. Firefighters assisted with clearing debris from the roadway and stood by due to leaking ... (Full Story & Photos)

Around 9:30pm on Monday, September 5th, Kennett Fire Company, Longwood Fire Company, and Po-Mar-Lin Fire Company responded to a motor vehicle accident with reports of entrapment in the area of mile marker 22.3 on the northbound side of the Route 1 Bypass in Kennett Township. Units arrived to find one overturned vehicle off the roadway and quickly determined that there was no entrapment.

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At 11:16am on Sunday, September 4th, Kennett Fire Company and Longwood Fire Company were dispatched for a vehicle fire in the 300 block of W. Cedar Street in Kennett Square Borough. Kennett's Engine 24 arrived to find smoke coming from the engine compartment of a pick-up truck. Kennett Square police officers had extinguished the flames with fire extinguishers before Engine 24's arrival, but firefighters ... (Full Story & Photos)