Orwigsburg Fire Department gets more than $2 million to build new firehouse

The Orwigsburg Fire Department is receiving $2.25 million in federal funding that will greatly help it build the new firehouse it is planning, officials said.

The money was included in the federal agriculture appropriations legislation recently signed into law and announced last Friday.

This investment will help allow Friendship Hose Co. No. 1 to construct a modern fire station on the site of its existing facility at 121 N. Liberty Street in the borough.

“It will improve emergency response capabilities, increase volunteer recruitment and retention, and ensure safe, updated infrastructure for first responders,” U.S. Congressman Dan Meuser’s office said in a press release.