The Midway Volunteer Fire Department began in the late 1890's with a group of men who came together when an old feed mill and several houses caught fire. Immediately after the fire, that same group of men got together and started to organize a 'bucket brigade'. The local blacksmith shop always kept wooden barrels full of water on a wagon, and all they had to do was hitch up a horse and go. A schoolhouse bell would ring to gather the men and their buckets.

The 'bucket brigade' first met every Wednesday at a local dance hall. After the borough was formed in 1903, they combined a borough office and a fire department. In 1949, they bought property off the railroad and built their own building, where it sits today.

The first piece fire equipment purchased was a hand-drawn hose reel and pump and 2 hand-drawn chemical units. It took eight men to pull and operate the pump. It would pump enough pressure to shoot water 70 feet through a 2 inch hose. In 1925, they purchased a new Chevrolet motorized truck with a four tank chemical unit. The next apparatus was purchased in the winter of 1931, it was a custom built Buffalo fire apparatus. The truck had a 400 g.p.m. pump and carried 360 gallons of water, 12 buckets and 40 feet of hose. The next truck purchased was a custom pumper built by Diamond Truck Company in February 1951, and delivered on August 25, 1951, for a cost of $13,843.00.

A 1953, International Panel Van was bought for manpower hauling.

The firemen built an addition in 1961, for a new truck.

Then in 1962, a new Mack Pumper was bought with a 750 g.p.m. pump and 500 gallons of water.

In 1966, they raffled off the panel van and bought a Dodge Step side Van. Next was a Dodge Power Wagon in 1969, with a walkishaw pump which was used as a brush truck.

In 1970, they built another addition to the building for new truck. Which is the way the building is to this day.

In 1973, when the building and the hall was complete, a new Mack Pumper was delivered with a 1,000 g.p.m. pump and 1,000 gallons of water.

In 1991, the fire department bought their first rescue which was a 1991 Ford E-One Walk-in Rescue. In 1995, they replaced the 1966, Dodge Van with a 1995, Chevy Crew Cab which is used as a medic. The 1962 Mack was replaced by a 1996 E-One Pumper 1,250 pump with 1, 000 gallons of water and 30 gallons of class 'B' foam.

The 1969 Dodge Power Wagon was replaced with a 1999 Dodge Ram Quad Cab with a 350 g.p.m. pump with 300 gallons water and a foam pro system.

The latest apparatus will replace the 1973 Mack with a 2002 Ferrera Igniter Pumper with a 1,750 g.p.m. and 1, 000 gallons of water and 20 gallons class 'A' foam pro system.