Homestead Fire Department

🍂🎃 Homestead Harvest Craft & Vendor Show 🎃🍂

Mark your calendars and come out for one of Homestead’s favorite fall events! 🍁

🗓 Saturday, September 19, 2026
⏰ 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM
📍 212 East 9th Avenue, Homestead, PA

🛍 Shop local and support small businesses with:
• Handmade crafts
• Unique gifts & fall décor
• Local vendors & artisans

🚒 Proudly hosted by the Homestead Volunteer Fire Department.

🎉 FREE admission & family friendly!

🚨 Vendors wanted! 🚨
Spaces available:
• $50 (No Electric)
• $75 (With Electric)

📞 Call now to reserve your spot:
(724) 393-1986 or (412) 219-6043

Early this afternoon, units were dispatched for a partial building collapse with 1 reported male trapped under debris. 171 Squad and Chief arrived on scene, along with EMS unit 510 confirming 1 Patient trapped under a pile of bricks between 2 houses. The patient was quickly extricated and transported to the hospital.

The firehouse pole was invented in 1878 by Captain David Kenyon of Chicago’s Engine Company No. 21. Captain Keyon wanted to speed up emergency response times and replace slow, narrow, and dangerous spiral staircases.

Our firehouse pole was 1 of 2 fire poles installed in one of our original fire stations in the early 1900s. When the new firehouse was built in the early 2000s This pole was installed and the other fire pole was donated to Swissvale Fire Department. Over 120 years later, members polish and use this piece of history that stays with us!