Truck 22 was dispatched to Williamstown per request of EMS to assist with the extrication of a patient from a second floor bedroom. Truck 22 responded with five personnel and arrived on scene to find EMS unable to remove the patient down the interior stairs through conventional means. The EMS crew wanted the patient removed through a window. Truck 22 was not able to use the elevated platform due to wires obstructing access, so dual ladders and a rope descent system were set up to lower the patient in a stokes basket to the litter below. Members assisted EMS with packaging and placing the patient in ambulance.
The commercial high rise box dispatched class one to 15 South Second Street, apartment 401, at the Rattling Creek Apartments in Lykens for a structure fire. Residents called 911 reporting smoke coming from apartment 401. Engine 22 responded with 4, Truck 22 with 6, Utility 22 with 2, Chief 22 POV, Rescue 21 with 7, Engines 23 with 5 and Engine 24 with 6. Chief 22 arrived on scene of a 4 story brick high rise 50 by 100 apartment building with nothing showing from the outside. The Chief and Lykens PD went to the 4th floor and found the apartment empty with food burning on the stove. After removing it and opening a window, command held the box to Company 22. Crews ventilated the apartment and then went available.
2017
Cardiac Arrest AED response, 654 S. 2nd Street (Box 22-1)
Company 22 dispatched class one to 654 South Second Street in Lykens for a cardiac arrest AED response call. Chief 22 and 3 firefighters responded POV and Truck 22 went enroute with 6. On arrival, crew started patient care until the arrival of EMS and PSP. After turning the patient over to EMS command placed the company available.
Companies 24, 23 and 22 dispatched class one to 9280 Route 209 for a report of smoke coming from a building roof. Truck 22 responded with 5 and Utility 22 with 1. On arrival the Truck took side A and a crew was sent to the roof to check it while another crew forced entry thru the front door. Tanker 24 and Rescue 23 staged and sent crews forward. The building was a 50 by 50 one story concrete block building used for storage. After getting interior nothing was found and command placed the box available.
Company 21, Engine 26 and Truck 22 dispatched class one to 18 West Broad street in Elizabethville at the Hollywood Court Apartments for an automatic fire alarm. Engine 21 went enroute with 4 and staged at the A/D corner and sent a crew interior. Engine 26 went enroute with 6 and on arrival staged at the hydrant at Market and Broad streets. Truck 22 went enroute with 4 with 2 additional members POV and on arrival took side A and prepared to set up. Interior crews found normal conditions and no alarm sounding and the fire alarm panel normal. On the arrival of maintenance the building was turned over to him and Command 21 placed the box available.
Engine 22 dispatched class three to 221 North Street in Lykens for an outside smoke investigation. Engine 22 responded with 4 and on arrival staged at the intersection of North and Edward streets and the crew walked the area looking for any smoke. It was a humid warm night with patches of fog in the area. After checking the 200 block of North Street, 300 block of Edward Street and the 200 block of Oak Alley with nothing found, Engine 22 went available.
The blacksmith shop, carpentry shop, oil house, and fan house of the West Brookside Colliery near Williamstown were destroyed by fire on October 6, 1875. The breaker was saved through great exertions. This fire, along with one at Locust Gap the day before, and one at William Penn the day after, started at points where no fire was in use that day. The fires were believed to be the work of the Molly Maguires, carrying out an organized scheme of arson, while suspending, for the time being, their more desperate work of murder.
On Friday, October 6, 1905, Asley Cook's Green Grocery team, in charge of by his son, John, was being driven down Market Street when the horse took fright at the waving of a canvas sign on a medicine show platform in front of the Glen House. The horse turned around suddenly, upsetting the wagon. As the horse started down Market Street, the wagon righted itself again, but in passing the Union House had the shafts broken and lines torn by colliding with another team. It was finally stopped on the square at Main and Market Street when it was found that the box and single tree were also broken. The driver had jumped off before the wagon upset and was not injured.
A twenty-two car passenger train was carrying 2,000 religious pilgrims, when it derailed and caught fire at Saltillo, Mexico, on October 6, 1972. Two-hundred-eight people were killed.
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