Mont Alto Volunteer Fire Company, No. 1, 517 South Main Street, Mont Alto, Pennsylvania, Franklin County Company 5. The Pearl Fire Department was established June 17, 1916 in Mont Alto. They elected officers, approved by-laws and then quickly faded away. On February 5, 1931 a meeting was held to either reestablish the Pearl FD or start a new department. The Mont Alto Fire Department was then chartered on July 1, 1931. Apparatus and equipment was first stored in a garage at 3 South Main Street. A new block station was built and opened in September 1939. Later another new firehouse, their current station, was built and dedicated in the fall of 1977 with an addition for the ambulance built in the 1980's. Another addition was completed in 2003. October 1, 1978 they began ambulance service, and in 1999 EMS moved into their own building just down Main Street. MAVFC run with 2 engines, a tanker, a brush truck and a utility.
