On Saturday May 11, Windsor Heights Fire Department is hosting their annual Pancake breakfast. It will be held from 8am to 1pm. A single ticket is $5.00 and a family ticket is $12.00. Stop on by for some good food and to see the trucks!

On Saturday, May 30th, Windsor Heights Fire Department will be hosting their annual Easter egg hunt. 8000 eggs have been stuffed with candy. The location will be at Colby park and there will be different sections for kids depending on their age. The hunt will be started off with sirens and horns from Windsor Height's fire trucks.

As of last week, Windsor Height's newest recruit class just received confirmation that they all have passed their Fire Fighter 1, Fire Fighter 2, and HAZMAT Ops test. Congratulations to them all for their hard work. They are currently in EMT-Basic school. They are now all cleared to start riding on all calls. So again, congratulations to Kaleb Rowley, Chris Dorff, Sam Bolton, Brian Brewer, Julie Kabrich, Tony Wattier, and Lou Lyle.

Departmental wide training on the Pittsburgh Drill. This showed to be very eye opening for the experienced as well as all the new recruits. With some great training the crews can offically say they are experts with the drill. It was a great night of training!

Stud Duck Construction was once again hard at work. Pittsburgh drill props are all completed and ready to be beat up!

Cowles Elementary held a live public auction to help fund the school. The FD and PD both were able to provide breakfast with the firefighters/police officers and a ride to school in the apparatus. The winning child and one friend were met at the FD with donuts, chocolate milk and OJ. They were able to ask questions to the full house of firefighters as well as receive a special visit by officer Woods who gave them a bag of goodies. The FD and PD are excited to be given the opportunity to help out the PTO and Cowles School.

As a yearly project to give back to the community the WHFD Association has purchased and donated a new Phillips AED and mounting case to the Ingram building located at 7900 Hickman. The fire assos. has been placing public access AED's in the occupancies with the most foot traffic. This will allow employees to quickly respond and defibulate a downed bystandard prior to the arrival of EMS.

Engineer Curtis Conrad has magicaly reappeared at theWHFD after serving 10 months in Afghanistan. We welcome Curtis home with open arms and cant wait for his return to sevice within the department.  Welcome home!

WHFD Fire Assos. will once again cover the city with Santa Claus. Santa will ride the tailboard of the fire engines on the morning of Dec. 15th. Listen for the sirens to draw out the kids!

Capt. Jason Cutsforth has been deployed to Afghanistan since July 2012. WHFD and the entire community is behind Jay and all his brothers and sisters fighting for our freedom over seas.

The newest 8 members of the WHFD are nearing the end of recruit class. They have well exceeded in all the initial expectations of the class. They have completed most of the state skills for FF1 and FF2 and will be testing late December. Great work crew!!

Local cub scouts toured the FD to help earn there life saver badge. 12 scouts and there parents toured the trucks and station and were then able to watch our new group of recruits battle it out in a gear challenge.

On August 18th 2012, the Windsor Heights Fire Department put their vehicle extrication training on display for the public at the Windsor Heights Hy-Vee parking lot. Four cars were set up in different positions to represent different car accident senerios. During the vehicle extrications, the public took advantage of the pie throwing at the Windsor Heights Fire and Police Chief's. After the training, a friendly eating competition between the Police Department and Fire Department took place inside Hy-Vee. Each person was given their own small pizza and at the end, the Fire Department was the winning team.

Thanks Isaac Slings for making an awesome video from this event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAHi_uAv8Ak

1st annual PD vs FD public education event was a huge success. Most members of the FD were present to put on a vehicle extrication demo and the PD was able to provide help with car seat installation. A cameo visits was made by Vince and Larry who met with kids and horsed around with visitors. Officer Canada and the new WHPD K9 were also on site. Thank you to the Windsor Heights Hy-Vee for there continued support.

On July 10, 2012, a 2nd Alarm fire broke out at the Windsor Heights Hy-Vee on University Ave. Smoke was seen pushing out of the roof and when fire crews arrived, smoke and fire was seen coming out the roof on the backside of the building. The fire was in the back mechanical room of the building. The building had a sprinkler system and three sprinkler heads were activated which helped to suppress the fire. Engine crews were sent inside and a ladder company was sent to the roof to help with ventilation. The fire was fully extinguished within an hour. There were no injuries from the incident.