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Written by Chris Simpson
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| March 26-27, 2011 |
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On Saturday crews from the Alpha Fire Company made their way to the county training grounds where they trained hard in engine company and truck company operations. Crews operating with the engine company pulled lines and practiced fighting fire in different possible scenarios including residential, mid rise and high rides fires. Crews operating with the truck company practiced various search methods, ladder placement, victim removal, different ventilation methods and roof operations. While at training the company handled various alarms throughout the first due.
On Sunday crews made their way back to the training grounds to continue training. While en route Company 5 was alerted for a working car fire in College Township. Quint 527 took in the call. At the training grounds crews honed in on their skills they had learned the previous day. While at the training grounds Company 5 took in a number of other calls in the first due.
Crews just got back into quarters and were debriefing and putting all the used equipment back into service when an engine was requested to transfer to Company 15 (Port Matilda). Engine 510 responded with 6 volunteers and stood by while a number of companies from the county operated at a wild fire.
Throughout the weekend Alpha’s responded to numerous calls including multiple reported house fires, multiple alarm systems and nuisance calls. At approximately 2:00 AM Monday morning Centre County dispatch alerted Company 5 for a reported trailer fire at 1312 Pennsylvania Ave in College Township. Police arrived on scene and advised of fire underneath the trailer. Engine 510, Engine 514, Quint 527 and Truck 516 responded on the run. Q-527 arrived on scene and pulled multiple lines to make a quick knock of the fire. E-510 secured Q-527 water supply and T-516 completed searches opened up for the engine company and ventilated. Command held the incident to 2 and 1.
Training continued into Monday night where rescue crews made their way to a local park to train on low angle rescues utilizing rope and rigging systems. |
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