Ten volunteers. One station. One hall.

Imler Area Volunteer Fire Company answers out of one station in Bedford County with ten volunteer firefighters and no career staff, no paid-per-call roster. The community engine underneath it is a ticket book: an annual gun raffle and dinner, a fire hall that hosts other people's events, and a banquet that thanks the ones who turn out.

Take ticket No. 11 Call 814-276-9117

This is a design concept. The company has no website of its own, and its Facebook page is its entire web presence.

Ten names and one station.

Public records list the company as all volunteer. Ten volunteer firefighters. Zero career staff. Zero paid per call. One station. That is the entire roster, and it is worth reading it as a number rather than a phrase.

The station address says Imler. The company's Facebook page lists the location as Osterburg. Both names belong to the same stretch of Bedford County, and either one will get you to the right place.

Volunteer firefighters: 10
Career staff: 0
Paid per call: 0
Stations: 1
Station address: 996 Mowrys Mills Rd, Imler, Pennsylvania 16655
Mailing address: PO Box 467, Imler, Pennsylvania 16655-0467
Company phone: 814-276-9117

The book that fills the hall.

Three tickets this area already knows by heart, and one that still has nothing written on it.

Fundraiser

Gun raffle and dinner

The gun raffle and dinner

The company runs an annual gun raffle with a dinner around it. It is the fundraiser the calendar bends toward, and for a ten-person company it is a serious piece of work: tickets to move, a meal to put out, a hall to fill.

The Morrisons Cove Herald reported on a past raffle in 2021, when 900 tickets went out and 20 drawings were made for guns, money and gift cards. That was one year's raffle, not a promise about the next one.

No date and no ticket price are published on this page. Those come from the company itself, by phone or on their Facebook page.

The room

Imler Fire Hall

The fire hall

The Imler Fire Hall is not only the company's own room. Outside groups hold their raffles and events in it, which means the hall is a working part of what this company does for the area rather than a building that sits waiting for an alarm.

If you need a room for something, that is a phone call to the same number everything else goes through.

The thank you

Awards banquet

The awards banquet

The company holds an awards banquet that recognizes its own members and the community organizations around it. In a place this size the thanks travel in both directions at the same table.

Reported by the Bedford Gazette.

Unclaimed

Nothing written on it yet

Ticket No. 11

Ten people hold this company up. Tickets A, B and C are already spoken for, worked by the same ten hands every year. The eleventh ticket in the book has no name printed on it.

If you live around Imler or Osterburg, it can have yours. Tear the stub, keep it, and make the call.

Ticket No. 11

Take it.

There is no form on this page and nothing here sends a message. Two channels reach the same ten people: the company phone and the company Facebook page. Ask what they need, say where you live, and go from there.

Call 814-276-9117 Message them on Facebook

Cannot run calls? Fill the hall.

Running into a burning building is one way to back this company. It is not the only one, and the other ways are the reason the first one is possible.

Buy into the raffle

Take a ticket when the raffle comes around, and bring somebody to the dinner. It is the company's annual fundraiser and the biggest single thing the community does for it.

Book the hall

Outside groups already run raffles and events out of the Imler Fire Hall. Your meeting, your benefit, your family gathering can be the next one.

Come to the banquet

The awards banquet recognizes members and the community organizations around them. Showing up is the cheapest way to make it land.

Where to reach them.

Two real channels, both verified from public sources. Nothing on this page collects or sends anything.

By phone

814-276-9117

The company's public number. Raffle, hall and membership questions all go to the same place.

On Facebook

Imler Area Vol Fire Co

Their active public page, and currently their entire web presence.

The station

996 Mowrys Mills Rd

Imler, Pennsylvania 16655. One station, listed under Imler and under Osterburg depending on where you look.

By mail

PO Box 467

Imler, Pennsylvania 16655-0467. There is no published email address for the company, so this page does not show one.