Company-22 was dispatched to assist EMS with a cardiac arrest call at 802 South Street in Lykens. Engine-22 responded and upon arrival assisted Medic-6 with CPR and patient care. The company was placed available after Medic-6 declared signal-12.
Company 22 was dispatched to 801 Market Street to assist EMS with lifting a large patient. Truck 22 responded with a crew of seven and Chief 22 responded to the scene POV. On arrival, the Truck staged on Laurel Lane and the crew went inside to assist EMS with lifting the patient. After successfully completing the task, the Truck went available.
2010
Accident with no injuries, Main and Market Streets (Box 22-1)
At the request of Lykens PD, Company 22 dispatched for traffic control and spill management for a crash involving three vehicles with no injuries at the intersection of Main and Market Streets on the square in Lykens. Captain 22, Chiefs 22 and 22-1 responded to the scene POV, and Engine 22 responded with 3. On arrival, crew controlled traffic and scene safety, and then cleaned up debris after the vehicles were removed, and then went available.
At the request of Medic 6, companies 22 and 23 dispatched class three to 801 Market Street in Lykens for a lift assist for an extremely obese patient. Rescue 23 responded with 3 and Truck 22 with 4. On arrival, crews assisted EMS with moving a patient from the floor to his chair, and then went available.
Truck 22 along with Dauphin County companies 26, 27 and 28 dispatched class one to Northumberland County in Upper Mahoney Township at 414 Snowdale Road for a structure fire. Initial dispatch advised fire through the roof. Truck 22 responded with 4 and one member POV. On arrival the Truck was staged and manpower sent forward to ladder and vent a 15 by 70 foot one story mobile home. Ladders were placed on the A C and D sides and two members went to the roof and trench cut it. Initial crews from Northumberland County made a quick knock on the bulk of the fire. Extensive overhaul with ceilings being pulled began and continued for some time. The Truck crew secured power to the structure. The Truck was released by command and went available.
The Do?a Paz was en route from Tacloban City, Philippines on the island of Leyte, to Manila, on December 21, 1987 when, while it was in the Tablas Strait, it collided with the small oil tanker, Vector, which was carrying 8,800 barrels of petroleum products. The contents ignited and caused a fire that rapidly spread onto the Do?a Paz. Of the 13 crew members aboard the Vector, 2 survived. The Do?a Paz sank within minutes and the death toll on the ferry is officially at 1,565, although some reports claim that the ferry was overcrowded and that the true death toll is over 4,000. The 21 survivors from the ferry had to swim underwater to escape the flames, as no lifeboats had a chance to be launched.
259 people aboard Pan Am flight 103 and 11 on the ground died in the crash which took place 38 minutes after take-off. The Boeing 747 left London Heathrow Airport bound for New York's JFK Airport. The debris from the aircraft was scattered across 845 square miles and the impact reached 1.6 on the Richter scale. Evidence of a bomb was found. Two men accused of being Libyan intelligence agents were eventually charged with planting the bomb.
A chartered Dutch jumbo jet with 340 people aboard slammed into a Faro, Portugal runway at 160 mph on December 21, 1992. The jet broke apart and burst into flames. Firefighting equipment was on the scene immediately. Panic broke out among the passengers as they sought to flee the aircraft, which they were able to do through the exits and through large holes in the broken fuselage. Helicopters took 34 of the more seriously injured people to hospitals in Lisbon, 135 miles to the northwest. Fire-blackened wreckage was strewn across 400 yards of the airport. Smoke poured from the wreckage all day, hampering efforts of rescue workers and dogs to searched for bodies. 56 passengers and two crew members died in the crash and fire.
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