Mont Alto Ambulance Squad, 6037 South Main Street, Mont Alto, Pennsylvania, Franklin County Company 5. February 5, 1931 a meeting was held to either reestablish the old Pearl Fire Department or start a new department. The Mont Alto Fire Department was then chartered in July 1931. Apparatus and equipment was first stored in a garage at 3 South Main Street. A new block station was 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. October 1, 1978 they began ambulance service, and on April 18, 1999 EMS dedicated their own building just down Main Street. MAAS run about 1,200 calls a year with 2 ambulances and a transport van.