Suspicious Fire in Elizabeth Borough – Update 8/11/2009
August 11, 2009 by FF184 · Leave a Comment
Elizabeth Boro Fire
Update 8/11/09 – Per Elizabeth VFC’s website, the Fire Marshal deemed this fire as accidental, and confirmed that nothing was thrown onto the porch.
Early on Wednesday morning, August 5th, Allegheny County 911 received a call from a homeowner stating someone threw something onto their back porch and their house was on fire.
Elizabeth Borough Station 139 and their first alarm were alerted for the house on South 3rd Avenue, in the Walker Heights section of Elizabeth. Initial crews on scene reported a working fire. Crews stretched a 2 1/2″ handline to the rear of the structure and another crew advanced through the front door. There was a nice knockdown and the initial crews did a great job of containment.
Lincoln Boro – Vacant House Fire – 07/04/2009
Lincoln - Liberty Way Fire
Lincoln 184, Liberty 183, and Port Vue 237 were dispatched to a possible residential structure fire shortly after 10pm on Saturday July 4th. Updates by police and Elizabeth Twp EMS reported flames showing and possible explosions or fireworks going off.
Engine 184 responded with 4 crew members and Tanker 184-1 responded at the same time as well. Engine 184 crew started fire attack with a hand line and deck gun. Engine 183 and Engine 237 arrived shortly after and assisted with establishing a water supply and fire attack. Due to the age of the structure, and amount of fire load, Chief 184 requested Central 147 and Elizabeth Boro 139 to the scene for additional manpower.
Rescue 300 Rollover Accident
April 22, 2009 by FF184 · Leave a Comment
Rescue 300 a
On Monday, April 20th, while responding to a call on Will Court in White Oak, Rainbow Rescue 300 slid off a narrow roadway onto its side. The crew of 4 members were able to get out with minor injuries. The driver refused transport.
White Oak 299 units were on scene first and started extinguishing a shed fire when the Rescue 300 was responding to the scene and slid off the road. At that time operations changed gears to rescue duties to make sure Rescue 300’s crew was ok. Speed does not appear to be a factor and the weather and narrow road were contributing factors.
Per news reports Elizabeth Twp Fire Department have loaned a rescue to Station 300 while Rescue 300 gets repaired.
Pictures From a Mt Nebo Road Accident
April 22, 2009 by FF184 · Leave a Comment
Mt Nebo MVA
Here are a few pictures from an accident on Mt Nebo Road on April 20th that were submitted to the site.
Natrona Heights Village Green Apartments Fire
March 13, 2009 by FF184 · Leave a Comment
photo by Chris "Jell-o" Negley
3-11-2009 at 21:00 Stations 167, 168, 169, and 110 EMS were dispatched to a working structure fire at The Village Green Apartments Harrison Twp, Natrona Heights, PA. 169 Chief first onscene advised a light smoke condition in the 2nd floor apartment. Station 281 RIT dispatched to the scene. Crew found a working structure fire in the apartments bedroom. Crew had a good knock down in the fire within 10 minutes of orrigional dispatch. County Maintenance was called to the scene due to the apartments being run by Allegheny county. The fire marshall was also called to the scene. No injuries were reported. The family was being assisted by Salvation Army and Red Cross.
Irwin Hotel Fire
March 9, 2009 by FF184 · Leave a Comment
photo submitted by Alan Harff
Here are a few pictures submitted by Alan Harff of a large fire that occurred on March 5th, 2009 at 211 Main Street in Irwin Boro at the Irwin Hotel.
Wexford VFC Structure Burn Training
February 10, 2009 by FF184 · Leave a Comment
photo by Jake Ballard
Here are some pictures of a recent structural burn training session taken by Wexford VFC through the Allegheny County Fire Academy.
Crews Battle Springdale Fire
Photo by Christopher "Jell-O" Negley
In the evening of Monday, February 9th, crews responded to a working structure fire at a large 2 story residence. Crews from Cheswick VFD, Springdale Twp VFD, Rural Ridge VFD, Springdale Boro VFD, Lower Valley EMS, Cheswick PD, Salvation Army Disaster Services, Allegheny County Fire Marshall were on scene. Numerous stations were put on mutual aid standby. Local news channels reported one injured firefighter due to smoke inhalation.
Revamped Video Section
January 30, 2009 by FF184 · Leave a Comment
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.
Fire Audio and New Link Added
January 28, 2009 by FF184 · Leave a Comment
Fire Audio from a January 21st residential structure fire in Indiana Twp added. Also added a link to Bellevue Fire Rescue Station 108.
