Company 22 dispatched class one to 446 North Street in Lykens for a medical assist for lifting. Truck 22 responded with 7 and on arrival side A they went interior and assisted EMS 24 with the transfer of a patient from the residence to their transport unit and then went available.
Box 21-6 dispatched for Engine 21 and Truck 22 to 5668 Route 209 in Washington Township at the Upper Dauphin Middle School for an automatic fire alarm. Engine 21 with 7 and Truck 22 with 5. Further information provided to DO 21 was that the activation was accidental and the box was placed in service.
Company 22 and Engine 23 dispatched class one to 50 Reiff Street in Lykens at the Reiff and Nestor Plant for an automatic fire alarm. Engine 22 went enroute with 3 and Truck 22 with 2. Lieutenant 22 advised that there was a water main break at North and Arlington Streets in the boro that may have triggered the alarm. On arrival, the Engine took side A/B corner by the main entrance of a 75 by 300 foot one story manufacturing facility with nothing showing. Engine 23 was placed in service. The Truck arrived and set up on the D/A corner. Plant staff met the crew and advised of no issues in the plant. A walk through of the plant was performed, and finding nothing, command placed the box in service.
Engine-22 was dispatched per request of EMS to assist with a patient having difficulty breathing, since EMS had an extended ETA. Engine-22 responded with six personnel and performed initial assessment and took vital signs of the patient. Upon arrival of EMS, personnel assisted with packaging and transfer of the patient to an ambulance.
A combination garage, chicken house, and coal shed burned to the ground on the evening of Thursday, September 6, 1945. The fire was believed to be ignited by sparks from a nearby rubbish fire. Lykens and Wiconisco firemen responded, but were hampered by the lack of water. Chemicals were used and the fire was prevented from spreading to the nearby dwellings. The building, which was practically empty at the time of the fire, was on the property formerly owned by the late Mr. and Mrs. James Thomas.
A wooden breaker built over the shaft opening of the Avondale Mine in the Wyoming Valley, one mile below Plymouth, Pennsylvania, caught fire on the morning of Monday, September 6, 1869. The fire was caused by sparks from a ventilating furnace. The shaft under the burning breaker was the only exit from the mine, and it soon became a roaring inferno. The men working in the mine at the time became trapped. A bucket brigade was formed from a large water tank on the hill to the fire until the first fire apparatus arrived from Kingston. The engine was supplied with water by buckets until a trough was made from the water tank to provide a constant supply. Good Will Engine No. 1 from Wilkes-Barre arrived next and a steam fire engine Nay Aug arrived from Scranton about one o'clock. The Nay Aug was supplied by the Good Will engine at first, but later set up suction from a stream below the railroad, and sent a powerful volume of water into the shaft, which was covered with a mass of burning timbers. About the middle of the afternoon, the two streams from the Kingston and Scranton engines had about extinguished the flames. Scranton's stream was then moved to a side tunnel that led to the shaft, and poured water into the shaft from there until the fire was extinguished. During this time, the Good Will engine was keeping a constant stream on a huge mass of burning coal that had been in the chutes between the headhouse and railroad. Around 5 p.m., preparations were being made to enter the mine to search for survivors. The crowd at the entrance was hampering the efforts and policemen tried unsuccessfully to force them back. A stream of water from a fire engine soon drove them away. Teams were sent into the mine to clear the path for rescue efforts. Mine gases hampered efforts of rescuers and two rescuers were overcome died. After their death, no further attempts were made to enter the mine until the following day when ventilation could be set up. All attempts on Tuesday were still complicated by mine gases and it wasn't until Wednesday that the bodies of the miners were found. One-hundred-eight minders died from suffocation during the fire and two rescuers died later while attempting to reach them.
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