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  • 914th conducts search and rescue operations exercise

    We Respond the Way We Train

    The 914th Fire Department conducted annual training during the September unit training assembly four-day weekend. The team trained with advanced hoses, ladders, search and rescue operations, and various tools required to safely complete the exercise.
  • Niagara personnel conduct MARE

    914th personnel conduct MARE

    A member of the 914th Aeromedical Staging Squadron poses as an accident victim during a Mass Accident Response Exercise (MARE) while 914th Fire Emergency Services and ASTS personnel render aid at the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station, N.Y., January 8, 2020. This type of exercise is done on a periodic basis to insure emergency response personnel are
  • Niagara fire fighters conduct mutual aid drill with local vol. fire company

    Air Force fire-fighters conduct mutual aid drill with local vol. fire dept.

    Members of the 914th Air Refueling Wing Fire Department conducted a mutual aid exercise with the Bergholz Volunteer Fire Company at the aircraft fire training facility here June 27, 2019.Exercises such as these are held to ensure there is an understanding of roles and responsibilities in the event there is ever a call made for mutual aid assistance

  • 914th firefighters assist with community flooding

    As the water level continues to rise along rivers and streams and Lake Ontario, state and county officials are trying to keep the rising water from destroying nearby homes.Five emergency services personnel from the 914th Air Refueling Wing Fire Department responded to an area along the shoreline of Lake Ontario in Olcott, N.Y. where they assisted
  • Niagara firefighters assist community with flooding

    Air Base firefighters assist community

    914th Fire Emergency Services personnel from the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station assist with sandbagging on the shores of Lake Ontario in Wilson N.Y. on May 2, 2019. The air base was called by county emergency managers to assist in mutual aid to help save resident homes from rising water levels. (U.S. Air Force photo by Peter Borys)
  • Ride along with 914th Fire Emergency Services

    Airman for a Day

    Isaiah Pitts (left) rides along with Lieutenant Kevin Winters driver/operator of fire crash truck number four at the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station, N.Y. on November 29, 2018. Isaiah toured the Air Reserve Station as part of the 914th Air Refueling Wing's “Airman for a Day” program in cooperation with “Stone’s Buddies" of Oishei Children's

  • Niagara airmen & firefighters participate in school event

    Hoover Elementary School in Tonawanda N.Y. invited local veterans and emergency responders to participate in a Read with a Hero/Veterans Day celebration.  Hoover faculty and students provided a special school assembly in honor of Veterans Day and they invited each veteran and emergency responder to either read a selected book to each class, conduct
  • NFARS Assistant Fire Chief spreads message of kindness to elementary school students

    Niagara fireman brings message of kindness to students

    On a warm June morning, on the second last day of school, fifth graders at A.J. Schmidt Elementary School in Angola, New York filed into the gym for their graduation ceremony. The yearly ceremony is an opportunity for teachers and dignitaries to recognize students for their hard work and professionalism over the course of the school year, as well
  • An Air Force Firefighter bails out of a second story window during a 5 day training course hosted by Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station, N.Y., July 12, 2017. Participants come from McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, Fairchild, Dover, MacDill, and Grissom as well as Niagara. The course offers hands-on training for emergency situations in preparation of real-world situations. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Stephanie Sawyer)

    Firefighters train for real-world emergencies

    On Monday, July 10, 2017, members from seven other air force installations met here for a week long firefighter training course. The training focused on firefighter fire ground survival skills and involved individual, as well as partner, lifesaving techniques.The first iteration of the course was a 10 day, computer-based training held at Fairchild

  • 914th Lt. named AFRC Civilian Firefighter of the Year

    The 914th Airlift Wing's Lieutenant Brian Nosbich was named the 2016 Air Force Reserve Command Civilian Firefighter of the Year. Nosbich was recognized as a result of his instructing hundreds of military and civilians every year.
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