Along State Road, the Union Fire Company is now home to a growing number of Bensalem Township's most critical emergency vehicles.

During a ribbon-cutting on Wednesday, the Bensalem Rescue Squad, which has called this station home for the past year after six local volunteer fire companies consolidated, announced a second medic unit will be stationed there full-time.

"There's gonna be a lot of development down in the Andalusia area in the next few years," Thomas Topley, the executive director of the Bensalem Rescue Squad, said. "And we're predicting increased call volumes down here, increased traffic that would delay our response times, and during weather emergencies, we always want to be in Andalusia anyway, so it seemed like the perfect match."

Bill McVey, the director of Bensalem Polic

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