Revamped Video Section

For those of you who haven’t noticed yet, the video section of the site is being revamped.  If you have a video from an incident, a departmental video, a tribute video, or any other type of emergency video that you would like posted be sure to contact us so that we can link to it.  We would like to grow this section of the site to have a nice collection of western PA fire videos.

Two more audio clips have been added in the audio section.  They are from the beginning of January and include a residential structure fire in Hampton Township and a motor vehicle accident in Shaler Township on Route 8.

Two more site links were added as well, they are for Belle Vernon VFC – Station 4 in Fayette county, and Lower Burrell #3 in Westmoreland county.  Check them out when you get a chance.

Body found in ruins of Fayette County home

An autopsy is set on a badly burned body found in a Fayette County home hours after a fire was extinguished there.

Masontown Police Chief Joseph Ryan says the body was found only after the son of the woman who lives in the home inquired about her after the fire.

A state police fire marshal is investigating. The house caught fire about 6 a.m. yesterday and collapsed.

The county coroner says the autopsy will be today. The body was too badly burned to even determine its gender.

Ryan says investigators believe the body was found in the kitchen, because it was near some appliances. But the ruins were so collapsed even that is unclear.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/breaking/s_609490.html

Teenage girl dies in Tarentum house fire

Firefighters say they could not rescue a teenage girl from a second-story window when her house caught fire in Tarentum.

Crews are still battling the fire on Corbet Street.

Three other people got out of the house. Two got out by themselves, but an elderly woman had to be rescued and has been taken to a nearby hospital. She’s expected to survive.

The Allegheny County fire marshal is investigating the cause of the fire.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/breaking/s_609488.html

Vehicle Crash with Entrapment – Elizabeth Twp.

0927 hrs. Twp. Fire was alerted to the 1600-blk of Round Hill Rd. for the vehicle crash with two pinned.  140 Asst. 3A arrived to find a minivan overturned over a 12 ft. retaining wall landing on its roof pinning two occupants.  R3 arrived and made initial access to the patients and ordered R7 to deploy the preconnected JAWS for the disentanglement.  R7 arrived and set up two ladders to access the vehicle, sending the extrication crew down to go to work.  Both passenger doors, drivers door, and rear gate were removed for access.  Crews made good access in approximately 17 minutes.
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Fire Audio and New Link Added

Fire Audio from a January 21st residential structure fire in Indiana Twp added.  Also added a link to Bellevue Fire Rescue Station 108.

Cambria County Tire Store Goes Up In Flames, Mayday Called.

Fire crews in Cambria County remain on the scene of a massive tire fire in Stonycreek Township.

The more than five-alarm fire started around 4 a.m. this morning at Carmen’s Wholesale Tires in the 1800 block of Bedford Street.

More than 20,000 tires are believed to be on fire.

In addition to the tire company, a plant shop and a former pizza place were destroyed.

At one point, a Maday call was put out. The firefighter had to be rescued from the flames.

There’s no word yet on what sparked the fire.

The fire marshal is investigating.

Link to Original article. KDKA.Com

17 Fire Companies Fight Bowling Alley Fire

UNION TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Seventeen fire companies responded to a persistent blaze at a Lawrence County bowling alley and restaurant.

Rescue officials said no injuries have been reported at the Parkstown Lounge & Restaurant in Union Township in Lawrence County. Fire companies fought the fire since before noon on Saturday, and it took them hours to gain control of the fire.

Fire authorities said they believe the fire may have started in a hooded fan above a stove in the restaurant’s kitchen. Patrons of the restaurant and bowling alley escaped unharmed.

“We rushed out (and the fire department) were here within 10 minutes,” said Richard Bardash, who has owned the facility for 28 years.

Fire companies from throughout Lawrence County and from as far away as Poland and Springfield, Ohio, responded helping to put out the blaze. Firefighters rushed in water to the scene from Erie.

“When the chief got on scene, he said there was smoke showing from the lounge area at the Parkstown Lounge & Restaurant bowling alley. When he went inside, he found fire in the kitchen. The fire spread through the lounge; however, it has been stopped at the bowling alley,” said Patrick Angiolelli, president of the Union Township Fire Department.

Bardash said he was relieved the situation didn’t turn out worse.

“We were pretty confident at that point that they were going to be able to put the fire out and, as time went by, the fire continued to spread. We felt maybe the lounge and the kitchen were a loss, but ultimately, they told us that the whole complex is gone,” he said.

Bardash added, “I think the fire department, all of them, have just done a tremendous job and there’s nothing they could do. It was beyond their capability and everybody has just been so great. Thank God that there was no loss of life.”

The 20-lane bowling alley is about 55 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.

http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/18556102/detail.html

Bellevue Borough Fire Department – Pittsburgh, PA

This video shows Bellevue firefighters in action.  This video was created around November of 2008 by Jeff Wissner (108engineboss).

Ak-valley and western PA Firefighters Tribute

This video was made by Bill Hartman (Smokejoker951) back in March of 2008 as a tribute.  Many pictures in the video came from the contributions to Hoopie World.

Crews battle industrial fire on the North Side

By The Tribune-Review

Fire officials say a four-alarm warehouse fire in the Woods Run area of the North Side was declared under control just after midnight this morning.

No injuries were reported.

Sgt. Amanda Aldridge of the Pittsburgh Fire Department says the fire started at about 9:30 p.m. Friday in a building where steel plates are made in an industrial building on Doerr Street, near the State Correctional Institution.

Aldridge said there were no evacuations because of the blaze.

Onlookers were kept at a distance because Pittsburgh firefighters were told that there are a variety of chemicals stored in the building.

State Department of Environmental Protection officials were notified that run-off water from the fire could flow into the Ohio River.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/breaking/s_608656.html

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