Middletown Fire Company #88

FIRST ALARM ON FISHER AVENUE TO END THE MONTH

Thursday, May 31, 2007

This evening at 20:17 Company 88, Engines 54, 59, and 7-4-1 (RIT) were dispatched to 113 Fisher Ave for a structure fire. Engine 88 (Chief Scheetz) responded 1 minute after dispatch with 6 men, county advised that they have reports of fire showing from the 2nd floor. Chief 88-1 Whitebread, called from 2 blocks out reporting heavy smoke, he arrived and reported a working fire in a 2 1/2 story apartment building attached on side Charlie with another 2 1/2 story apartment building with exposures on the Baker side. Engine 88 arrived and did a split lay from Wilson St. up Fisher Ave. While crews were stretching lines, bystanders were reporting people trapped in the building, one report of a disabled female, and another of a child. Crews stretched a line to side Charlie to access the 2nd floor apartment, while a 2nd crew forced the doors on side Alpha and stretched a line to the first floor apartment. Both crews performed searches of the building which proved negative entrapment. Engine 88-1 arrived, dropped their crew off and picked up the split lay, tapping a hydrant at Lawrence and Wilson Streets. Truck 88 and Rescue 88 arrived, sending crews to do a secondary search, ventilation and ladder the building. Chief 54 (Shellenhammer) took manpower/accountability. Engine 54 and 59 assisted interior crews, as well as the Truck Co. Engine 50, 46, 48-1, Truck 46, Rescue 46 and Air 41 arrived to assist with salvage and overhaul. E-32 was coming as the 2nd due RIT company, but, was diverted to Station 88 for stand-by. Thanks to all responding departments for a job well done!

BOAT AND DIVE TEAM 88 ASSIST COMPANY 54 AND PSP

Monday, May 28, 2007

Today at 14:16 hours, Boat 88 was dispatched to Box 54-9 (Londonderry), the Susquehanna River to assist PSP with a search detail. Company 88 responded with Boat 88 and Dive 88 (Capt. Cleland), to the Tri-County Boat Club. Upon arrival, crews were advised of a boater that had jumped from a pontoon boat at approximately 03:00 hours and had not been located. Boat 88 was launched and was assigned to respond to the head of Beshore Island to begin searching the waterway as Boat 54 searched the islands. After searching the area with nothing found, the Boat was given an exact location of were the subject had jumped from the boat. With a better location, the Dive team deployed with three divers to search for the subject. As the divers were searching, the PA Fish and Boat Commission had a boat with two officers keeping the dive area clear of boaters due to high boat traffic during the holiday. After making two dives and searching a rather large area water and land by boat, divers, and a PSP helicopter, the search was called off by Command 54 and PSP until further information could be obtained. The boat then returned to boat club where the crew placed all equipment back into service and cleared the incident. The subject was located two days later, deceased, by workers at the York Haven Hydro-Electric Plant.

Lancaster 4 Alarm Job

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

This evening at 21:04 hours, Engine 88 was dispatched to relocate to Lancaster County Sta. 7-9 (Maytown) while Sta. 7-9 and mutual aid units worked a large chicken house fire on Colebrook Road in East Donegal Twp. While Engine 88 (D/C Whitebread) was enroute with a crew of five, Lancaster County diverted the Engine to the scene and back filled the transfer assignment. Engine 88 arrived on scene with the crew standing by in manpower staging. Engine 88 remained on scene of the 4 Alarm fire for about an hour and a half before being released by Command 7-9. Visit Maytown FD’s website @ http://www.maytownedfd.com/fullstory.php?46051 for photos.

Dive Team Works on the Public Pool

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

This evening, Rescue Divers H. Cleland, K. Whitebread Jr., and Dive Tender K. Whitebread Sr. headed to the Middletown Public Pool to assist with some maintenance issues. The divers went down to the deep end and re-bolted the drain plates to the drain inlets. With nothing else needing to be done, the crew loaded up and returned. Crew out for about 1 hr.

Garage Fire in Paxtang

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

This morning around 03:45 hours, Rescue 88 was dispatched as the 2nd due RIT on a garage fire in the 40-2 box. Rescue 88 (Captain Fink) responded with a crew of 6. The Rescue arrived and was told to stage on Derry St. and hold the manpower. First in companies had a good knock on the fire and per the request of command 40 Rescue 88 changed its assignment to stand by for Co. 40 in their quarters. Crews were out for about 2hrs. Photo courtesy of www.pennlive.com

Accident with possible entrapment

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Tonight at 11:56 hours, Rescue 88 was dispatched to PA Route 283 Westbound just prior to the Toll House Road exit, for a vehicle accident with possible entrapment. Rescue 88 (Chief Scheetz) and a crew of 8 men were out the door within minutes. Upon arriving on scene, crews found a car to be about 100 ft up an embankment, into the woods with one patient. The other vehicle was about a ¼ mile down the road on the shoulder, with a total 3 patients. With crews from Rescue 88 and Engine 54 splitting up, all patients were attended to until EMS units arrived. After all the patients were packaged and transported to the hospital, crews were posed with a new problem, The tow truck driver advised his towing cable would not be long enough to reach the car in the woods. Rescue 88 finally had the chance to use the new winch, after flipping the car back onto its wheels, the 88 crew then pulled the vehicle out. Crews were out for about 2 hrs. A great job done by all 88 and 54 personnel on the scene. Photos and video courtesy of Londonderry Fire Company. Click here for video

FROM THE MEMBERS AT CO#88