The picnic is a local institution and a fund raising event for the Clifford Township Volunteer Fire Department.

For the first several years, the Firemen Picnics were held in the field behind the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter LaCoe.

The fire engine was kept across the street at LaCoe's Clifford Farm Supply Store.

[8] As this meant that stands and tents needed to be erected each year, the Fire Company purchased 21 acres (85,000 m2) of land including a small pond.

Volunteer Fire Company is home to a miniature railroad that once existed at Rocky Glen Park in Moosic.

It operated in the same area the 1905 Miniature Railroad did with a slightly different path, which in the 1980s would be where the Jet Coaster was located.

The now former Nallin-Jennings Miniature Railroad was dismantled and then sold by new owner Ben Sterling to persons from the Clifford Township Volunteer Fire Company, where it has remained with some modifications over the years to keep it going.