Southwest Harbor Junior Fire Department

Last Updated 10/15/09
Next Junior Firefighters Meeting, Sunday October 18th, 3pm at the fire station.

Click here for FIRE PREVENTIONA Summer Junior Firefighter's Meeting, 2008. Click here for PROJECT PUMPER

The SWHJFD provides a positive direction for youth in our small community of Southwest Harbor, Maine.

Founding members of the Junior Fire Department at a fire muster in Orland Maine, 1981.

Established 1980

Founded in 1980 by local teenagers and the Fire Department, the Explorers, ages 9 to 13, and the Juniors, ages 14 to 17, learn the importance of being fire safe and the practices used by the fire service to provide the community a volunteer though professional fire department.

Junior Firefighters in a controled SCBA/Smoke exercise. Wash Detail

The program has proven that kids can grow with responsible and civic minds, becoming fire department officers and future leaders.