Engine 22 and Engine 23 were dispatched to 26 Main Street for an accident with injuries. Engine 22 responded, and Chief 22 responded to the scene POV. The accident was in front of Chief 22-2's residence. Chief 22-2 was on scene. He placed Company 23 in service and had Engine 22 respond non-emergency. The crew assisted with patient removal and transfer to an EMS unit.
Companies 20, 21, 22, 23, and 26 were dispatched to a call in Washington Township, the village of Loyalton, for a fire in the canopy and sign above the gas pumps of the Tower Sales Mini-Market along Route-209. Command held the box to Company-21 with all other companies placed in service.
2007
Smoke in a structure, 123 South Second Street (Box 22-1)
A report of smoke on the first floor of the residence at 123 South Second Street brought a local alarm assignment of Engine and Truck 22, Engine 23, and Rescue 21. Engine 22 responded with a crew of six, Truck 22 with a crew of five, and Engine 23 with a crew of six. Chief 22 had command, and upon arrival, crews were met on scene by PD and Lieutenant 22-1, who was running with Medic 6 on the call. The Lieutenant advised the incoming crews that the smoke was caused by burned food in a microwave oven. Command returned Rescue 21 and held the box to the units already on the scene. The crews vented the smoke from the structure, aired out the first floor, then went available.
First alarm assignment on the 27-1 box at 417 South Spruce Street in Gratz for a garage fire. Chief 27 arrived on scene with a 50 foot by 100 foot metal pole barn one story garage, well off. Truck 22 responded with 7, and on arrival, laddered the building and assisted crews from Gratz, Berrysburg, and Pillow with extinguishment and later salvage and overhaul. Rescue 23 stood by on scene as RIT, with Rescue 21 standing by in Station 27. Medic 6 established rehab to the rear of Truck 22. Command marked control and began releasing units. The Truck crew went available, but not until they got a chance to check out the new Rescue 27 that just arrived from Sutphen on Friday but was not yet in service.
Box 23-5 dispatched class one to 7957 Route 209 for a reported structure fire. Truck 22 went enroute with 5, Engine 22 with 1 and Chief 22 POV. On the arrival of Chief 23-1 he confirmed that it was a controlled burn and held the box to Rescue 23.
Companies 24, 23, 22 and Schuylkill 22-15 and 24 EMS dispatched to 229 Tunnel Street in Williamstown for a report of alarms sounding at a residence. Truck 22 responded with 5 and on arrival command 24 advised to take side A of a 3 story duplex wood frame residential structure with nothing showing from the exterior. Crew entered the structure from a B side kitchen window and searched the interior and found a smoke alarm on the third floor with a bad battery. Command placed the box in service.
The railroad bridge across the Susquehanna River six miles west of Harrisburg was discovered to be on fire at about 3 a.m. on Friday, July 17, 1868. Before the fire could be extinguished, five spans were destroyed. The fire was believed to have been started by sparks from the engine of the Baltimore Express train that passed over the bridge, going west, a few minutes before the fire was discovered.
1944
Munitions Ships Collision-Explosion - Port Chicago, CA
1971
Train Accident - School Children - Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
2007
Farming Show Fire - Bremen, Germany
2007
Nuclear Reactor Transformer Fire - Kashiwazaki, Japan
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