emergency services

SMETHPORT — The McKean County Department of Emergency Services activated extended efforts earlier in the week in response to the global pandemic of CO...

An aging population, shrinking tax base and rising costs are making it harder for municipal governments and emergency services in rural areas to opera...

Name: James Neely Title/Position: Captain Agency: Smethport Fire Department Inc. Length of time in position: 3 years What made you decide to become a ...

Free “ham radio” courses for Technician (entry level), General and Extra classes are available. The Technician and General classes will be from 9 a.m....

Each and every day, volunteer emergency responders come to the rescue when disaster strikes, but what would you do if one day nobody came? With increa...

Carol E. Duffy, current Republican McKean County commissioner, has announced her intention to run for re-election. As a lifelong resident of Smethport...

Tuesday started out misty with a light rain but as the day progressed slight rainstorms turned into a day to be cautious, with periodic heavy rainfall...

PORT ALLEGANY — Success at last. After more than two years, the effort to revitalize local emergency services by offering appropriate first responder ...

SMETHPORT (EC) — The director of the county emergency services has lauded dispatchers at the emergency communications center in Smethport for their wo...

HARRISBURG — State Reps. Martin Causer, R-Turtlepoint, and Matt Gabler, R-DuBois, on Wednesday joined their House colleagues in unanimously passing le...

LITTLE VALLEY, N.Y. –– Cattaraugus County Sheriff's deputies are investigating the death of a 14-year-old Conewango, N.Y., boy involved a logging acci...

A local committee is considering one option that could help alleviate the manpower shortage facing the area's volunteer fire departments. Organized la...