Lloydsville Volunteer Fire Department, Unity Township Company #2

Lloydsville Volunteer Fire Department has been helping surrounding communities even before they became officially chartered in 1931. It was these same communities that helped them bounce back from an unfortunate setback in 1986.
On January 9th the Lloydsville Volunteer Fire Department caught fire and burned. The department lost garages and a tanker engine sending them into debt and forcing them to rebuild their station. But Lloydsville bounced back. They hosted a grand reopening celebration in September of that year. At the same time, they secured a replacement tanker truck allowing them to return an engine on loan from the Levelgreen Volunteer Fire Department in Trafford. Lloydsville continued this rebound by being a founding member of the Westmoreland Swift Water Rescue Team in 1995, alongside New Alexandria Volunteer Fire Department, and has been the home base of this team ever since.

The department is also a part of the Westmoreland County Technical Rescue team. Contrary to their name, the department doesn’t only serve the village of Lloydsville, as their service area includes the nearby railroad and as far as the Unity Township portion of Twin Lakes Park. The department currently has 20 active members, and Chief Brian Schulties says the department is preparing to replace a 21-year old tanker truck in the near future.