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FIRE HITS HOUSE IN LANCASTER COUNTY

TIMOTHY COOVER

At 7:06 a.m. on May 16th, crews were alerted for a house fire on Kelly Ave in East Donegal Township, Lancaster County. First arriving firefighters reported heavy fire through the dwelling and made a quick knock down of the bulk of the fire.

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Firefighters from Lancaster, Harmony and Zelinople responded to a suspicious house fire along US 19 in Lancaster Township. The home had been foreclosed and just sold days previously to a new owner. Firefighters JUMP TO FILE # had a hard time bat- 050915101 tling the fire as temperatures peaked into the upper 80's.

Firefighter had no sooner mopped up and gone home when Lancaster Township police responded further down the road to several vehicles knocked off the roadway.

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TIMOTHY COOVER

Fire hits house in Lancaster County

At 7:06 a.m. on May 16th, crews were alerted for a house fire on Kelly Ave in East Donegal Township, Lancaster County.

First arriving firefighters reported heavy fire through the dwelling and made a quick knocked down of the bulk of the fire. The fire was reported under control at 7:45 a.m. The homeowners were able to get out safely thanks to a passing motorist, who alerted them of the fire. Also, crews were able to extinguish the neighbors house as it was caught by the blaze. Mount Joy was assisted by Maytown, Marietta, Elizabethtown, Rheems, Susquehanna, Manheim, and Mountville Fire Departments.

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Upper Darby goes to work

Upper Darby C Platoon fought a working roof and attic fire on May 14th in the Bywood Section of Upper Darby Township. Companies found fire showing from the roof area of a two story row home, and advanced lines both to the roof and into the structure. The fire was contained to the roof and attic area, although interior ceilings were opened up to check for downward extension. Companies on scene included Engine 37, Ladder 36, Engine 26, Tower 74 (initial RIT) who were put into service, and Rescue 20 (replacement RIT), Delco Medics 103, and Upper Darby 11 (deputy chief). The fire was discovered by Upper Darby Police Lt. Paparo while on patrol.

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ANTHONY MICCICKE

Fully involved home spreads to several dwellings Reading, PA. With "B" platoon firefighters preparing to finish their tour on the morning of Tuesday May 5th, a box alarm was transmitted for 941 East Laurel Street at 7:27 a.m.

The Berks County Communications Center advised there was possibly someone trapped in one of the homes.

Chief Born (C7) reported a large column of smoke visible from the station. Chief Born and Engine 5 arrived to a two and a half story middle-of-the row with heavy fire from the roof and rear. With the fire spreading rapidly into the B and D exposures, Born requested a second alarm.

An occupant was quickly brought to EMS in respiratory distress from the smoke. With several lines stretched into exposure dwellings, a two and a half inch line

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Companies operated in multiple exposure buildings to stop the progress of the fast moving fire. Fire Chief Stoudt (C1) assumed command and upgraded to a third alarm to bring more manpower.

With Exeter Rescue 25 as RIT, a decision was made to commit them to an exposure building and special call another companywere operating, and primary searches were reported to be clear.

The fire building established as 941 and 943 was also heavily involved in fire. Both structures were declared exterior operations. Firefighters operated in 937, 939 and

943. The forward progress of the fire was stopped at 9:02 a.m.

The fire was ultimately placed under control at 9:21 a.m., although companies operated at the scene until well into the afternoon. The Fire Marshal's Office is investigating.

Three of the homes were heavily damaged and most likely will be condemned. Mount Penn Engine 1 and Exeter Rescue 25 were placed on the second alarm. Mount Penn Ladder 1 was requested on the third alarm. Spring Township Engine 85-1 was special called to replace Exeter as RIT. With A platoon firefighters coming in to begin their dayshift, many firefighters were able to staff reserve units quickly. Other county companies around the city were also placed on standby.

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Upper Darby Engine 26 (Highland Park) working at a roof fire on Thursday, May 14th.

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Hospital honors paramedic’s memory

Bern Township, PA. On Tuesday, May 19th, EMS providers assembled for a luncheon at Saint Joseph's Hospital in Bern Township as part of National EMS Week. Along with the activities, the hospital presented an award to a unit or provider for EMS excellence. This year, EMS coordinator Chris Chamberlain presented the award in memory of Reading Fire Department Paramedic Brenda Bauer. Brenda's husband Lieutenant Walt Bauer was on hand to accept the award on his her behalf. Brenda recently lost her battle with cancer in April.

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The Logan Fire Company has just placed this 1991 Ottawa/Marion pumper in reserve status after placing into service a new KME. This engine was formally from Palmyra, PA.

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Mississippi: Brandon Ricks, 40 Rank: Pilot Incident Date: March 30, 2015 Death Date: March 30, 2015 Fire Department: United States Forest Service-National Forests in Mississippi Initial Summary: The pilot and one firefighter died of injuries sustained and one firefighter was seriously injured when their U.S. Forest Service helicopter crashed while monitoring a controlled burn of about 800 acres in the Desoto National Forest.

Mississippi: Steve Cobb, 55 Rank: Forest Service Engineering Technician Incident Date: March 30, 2015 Death Date: March 30, 2015 Fire Department: United States Forest Service-National Forests in Mississippi Initial Summary: The pilot and one firefighter died of injuries sustained and one firefighter was seriously injured when their U.S. Forest Service helicopter crashed while monitoring a controlled burn of about 800 acres in the Desoto National Forest.

New Jersey: Barry Van Horn, 63 Rank: Firefighter Incident Date: March 25, 2015 Death Date: March 27, 2015 Fire Department: Somerville Fire Department - West End Hose Company #3 Initial Summary: Firefighter Van Horn responded to a fire alarm call at 7:25 a.m. on March 25. After the call, he returned to his office to fill out the fire report of the incident (Firefighter Van Horn was also the municipal fire official).

He felt ill and went home. Shortly thereafter, around noon, Firefighter Van Horn suffered a heart attack. He was transported by ambulance to Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center where he remained until his death on March 27.

Pennsylvania: John J. Doster, 95 Rank: Fire Police Captain Incident Date: February 25, 2015 Death Date: April 2, 2015 Fire Department: Edgely Fire Company #1, Inc. Initial Summary: Fire Police Captain Doster complained of not feeling well while on the scene of a two-alarm warehouse fire in Hulmeville Borough, Pennsylvania. Doster was direct-

ing traffic on a bitterly cold evening with much of the main street of the borough closed for fire operations. Shortly thereafter, Doster departed for home. Within a few hours, Doster’s condition worsened and he was transported to the hospital for treatment. On April 2, 2015, Fire Police Captain Doster passed away at St. Mary’s Medical Center.

South Dakota: Steven Ackerman, 38 Rank: Firefighter Incident Date: April 12, 2015 Death Date: April 12, 2015 Fire Department: Valley Springs Fire & Rescue Initial Summary: Firefighter Ackerman died from injuries sustained while working interior fire operations at the scene of a residential structure fire. Ackerman was found in the basement of the home after fire crews were ordered out of the structure due to fire conditions. The 47-year-old homeowner, Mr. David Smith, had been rescued by fire crews and transported to the hospital soon after they arrived on-scene but did not survive his injuries. Investigation into the fatal incident continues by local and state authorities.

California: Raymond Araujo, 37 Rank: Inmate Firefighter Incident Date: April 13, 2015 Death Date: April 13, 2015 Fire Department: CAL FIRE Initial Summary: Inmate Firefighter Araujo suffered a heart attack while engaged in a training exercise on the Morongo Indian Reservation near Banning, California. Araujo succumbed to his injury after being airlifted to a base camp where he was treated by CAL FIRE and Riverside County Fire Department medics.

Nebraska: Andrew "Andy" Zalme, 42 Rank: Captain Incident Date: April 16, 2015 Death Date: April 16, 2015 Fire Department: Dakota City Fire Department Initial Summary: On the evening of Thursday, April 16, 2015, Dakota City Fire and Rescue responded to a vehicle fire on Highway 35. As fire crews were preparing to leave the scene, Captain Zalme collapsed. Despite numerous attempts, fellow responders were unable to revive Zalme and he passed away at the scene. A nature and cause of fatal injury has yet to be determined.

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Firefighter Lauren Fritz has been apart of Susquehanna Fire and Rescue, Company 804 in Columbia, Pa for four years. She is looking forward to when she starts going to college at Shippensburg, where she plans on running with the Shippensburg Fire Company.

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Vehicles collide on Stony Hill Road Lower Makefield Township, Bucks County, PA. Firefighters from the Yardley-Makefield Fire Company were recently dispatched by Bucks County Fire Radio to Rescue Box 80-28 for a two vehicle (Honda CRV versus a Toyota Camry) accident with entrapment in the area of Stony Hill Road and Oxford Valley Road. Firefighters were dispatched at approximately 4:02 p.m.

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PAUL GARRETT

Rescue personnel work on the victim of the one vehicle accident after he was pulled from the wreckage.

Mill Hall man flown to Geisinger A Mill Hall man is in stable condition after he was trapped inside his pickup truck on Route 44 in Limestone Township on May 18th.

Charles W. Styers, 58, was flown to Geisinger Medical Center near Danville by LifeFlight after his black Chevy pickup flipped onto the driver’s side after Styers attempted to avoid hitting a deer in the northbound lane of the highway according to a TVRPD police report.

According to the report, Styers was heading to his home on Long Run Road, in Mill Hall, around 11:00 p.m. Friday evening, after vis-

JUMP TO FILE #052315101 iting his son in Nippenose Valley.

When police arrived, the lone occupant of the vehicle was unresponsive at first, but finally regained consciousness enough to tell officers he had neck and back pain and could not feel his legs.

The victim was pinned by the truck door and steering wheel, the report said. The driver drifted in and out of consciousness four times according to the report, but he did say

he was trying to avoid the deer when his passenger side front and rear wheels drove up the side of the northbound road after traveling about 100 feet and then rolled over onto the drivers side where it came to rest.

Rescue personnel from Antes Fort, Nippenose Valley Volunteer Fire Department and both Jersey Shore Fire Companies responded along with Jersey Shore EMS and the TVRPD. - PAUL GARRETT

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Firefighter safe after mayday called during Swissvale house fire Shortly before 3 p.m. on Monday, May 11th, Swissvale firefighters were dispatched to a reported house fire located on Ormond Avenue.

Upon fire units arrival, a second alarm was quickly requested.

Firefighters attempted an offensive attack on the fire, but were quickly pulled out of the building.

Within seconds, a mayday was called due to low air, but the firefighter was able to self-evacuate the building without injury.

With temperatures near 90 de-

JUMP TO FILE #051415142 grees, several firefighters were treated at the scene for heat related injures, with three firefighters transported to local hospitals.

It is believed that roofers using a torch may have started the blaze, but the cause of the fire is still under investigation.

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Harrisburg operates this 2003 Chevy Tahoe as Chief car 2.

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Truck and motorcycle collide in Upper Hanover Twp.

Upper Hanover Township, PA. On Monday, May 18, 2015 at 9:23 a.m., East Greenville Fire Co. was dispatched to a truck and a motorcycle accident on Gravel Pike and Palm Hill Rd. in Upper Hanover Twp. The cyclist sustained injuries and was transported to the hospital by ambulance. The severity of his injuries were unknown. The cause of the accident is pending the outcome of the investigation. Assisting the fire company were Upper Perk EMS unit and PA State Police.

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PAUL GARRETT

Independent Hose Company honor their past members On Thursday evening, May 21st, Independent Hose in Jersey Shore and their brother firefighters from Antes Fort teamed up to place flags on the graves of fellow firefighters buried at Jersey Shore Cemetery.

The tribute is done every year by members of the departments to honor their past members just before the Memorial Day weekend.

This year saw a few female’s taking part in the tradition. Over the past year the company has acquired three new female members, two junior members, Jessica Willits, 17 and Lydia Yorks, 16, along with 22 year old Corissa Geher, now a probationary firefighter.

“I notice a lot of females, who joined and have family members who have done it for years so I

JUMP TO FILE #052315105 think they just follow in their footsteps to keep the tradition going,” said Geher, whose Pap, Dave Ulmer, has been with IHC for 51 years.

“I like to help people. My dad has been in for so many years and ever since I was little I said when I turn 16 that’s what I want to do. So I did it as soon as I could,” said Lydia Yorks, daughter of IHC firefighter Jason Yorks.

“As a new member of the station, it’s nice to see the past history and to be able to honor them as well,” Yorks added. The members walked through the entire cemetery to place flags on 77 graves of their fallen comrades. Some of the mem-

bers brought their children and even grandchildren to participate in the solemn service for their brothers.

Captain Jeremy Frantz from IHC, walked along holding one hand of his daughter, Rylee, 2 ½ , while she held a flag waiting to place it on a grave site. Frantz and his brother Jon, who is also with IHC, have many relatives who served in the fire service and have been laid to rest at the cemetery and he doesn’t hesitate when asked if his little girl will someday carry on the tradition. “Absolutely, it’s in the blood. My mother was a firefighter so why not have her granddaughter be a firefighter?” Frantz said proudly.

- PAUL GARRETT

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Bedroom fire on Locust Street in Reading Reading, PA. On Tuesday, May 26th, with B platoon members nearing the end of their dayshift, the Berks County Communications Center dispatched a bedroom fire at 722 Locust Street. Engine 9 and Ladder 3 arrived at a two and a half story MOR with smoke showing from the second floor. Crews quickly stretched a hoseline into service with the fire located in an upstairs bedroom. All searches were marked clear by rescue and ladder firefighters. The fire was placed under control at 4:55 p.m. The Fire Marshal's Office is investigating.

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Reamstown Fire Company once ran this 1974 Hahn 1500/1000. The unit is now privately owned.

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Newtown Emergency Services Department Firefighter Tim Chamberlain in service with a booster line.

Flames consume wooded area along I95 in Lower Makefield Township Lower Makefield Township, Bucks County, PA. Firefighters from the Yardley-Makefield Fire Company, Upper Makefield Fire Company, Parkland Fire Company, Fairless Hills Fire Department, Newtown Emergency Services Department, and Langhorne-Middletown Fire Company (Sta. 80 cover) were recently dispatched by Bucks County Fire Radio to Local Box 80-95 for a reported brush fire in the wooded

JUMP TO FILE #050615114 section of Interstate 95 Northbound just south of Exit 51 at approximately 4:49 p.m. on Monday, May 4th.

Firefighters were in service with multiple hand lines extinguishing the fire.

After the bulk of the fire was extinguished, firefighters re-

mained on location for an extended period of time wetting down hot spots and going in service with shovels and hooks.

Fire police conducted traffic control operations shutting down a lane of traffic in the fire operations zone throughout the incident.

The Pennsylvania State Police and the Lower Makefield Township Police were also on location.

- JEFFREY GOLDBERG

Haybale catches on fire in Upper Hanover Twp. Upper Hanover Twp., PA. On May 22, 2015 at 5:38 p.m., East Greenville Fire Co. along with Hereford Fire Co. were dispatched to 1122 Station St. in the village of Palm in Upper Hanover Twp. A lamp post accidently fell on top of a haybale on a porch and ignited a haybale. Upon arrival, firefighters quickly extinquished the burning haybale with pressurized water extinquishers. Assisting the fire companies were fire police from Hereford Fire Co.

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Every year for Memorial day, the Maytown fire department washes down the streets for the craft fair and parade. Every single year the kids are lined up in the street waiting for them to come down.

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A future 1st responder helping Elizabethtown Fire Department Lieutenant Mike Smith discharge the hose on a small brush fire.

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Walnuttown has a 2007 HME/Ferrara pumper, 1500/1000/50/50.

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Pittsburgh firefighters battle smoky 4-alarm fire during rush hour Engine 3 of the Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire is a 2008 KME 2000/500/25.

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At 4:53pm on Thursday May 14th, City of Pittsburgh firefighters were dispatched to city fire zone 221 for a reported structure on fire at the intersection of Murray and Forward Avenues in the city’s busy Squirrel Hill section.

The first alarm attempted to make an offensive attack but were pulled from the structure about 20 minutes after their arrival.

The fire quickly spread through-

JUMP TO FILE #051415143 out the vacant structure as the fire quickly escalated into 4-alarms.

The roof of the building collapsed along with part of the building’s façade.

Officials stated that the fire started in a vacant two-story building that had been vacant for at least

six months and all utilities had been shut off.

Firefighters stayed on-scene for hours containing the fire to the original fire building.

There is no word on what may has started the fire but City of Pittsburgh Arson investigators were onscene starting their investigation.

There were no reported injuries.

- ERIC RASMUSSEN

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Emlenton Fire Department of Venango County operates a 1997 Spartan/4-Guys as Engine 10 1000/1500

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The Berks Emergency Strike Team operates this 1993 Sutphen 1500/750 as Engine 81. The rig previously saw service in Choconut Center New York.

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The three new female members are from left. Jessica Willits, 17, Lydia Yorks, 16, both junior members. and Corissa Gehr, 22, a probationary firefighter.

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SCENES FROM THE FIRE EXPO Photos by Heather Pillsworth

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FDNY War Years Volume 3 VIDEO REVIEW

Video reviews by John Malecky

FDNY War Years, Volume 3 By Fire Line Video Productions Available from: FSP Books & Videos 188 Central Street, #4 Hudson, MA 01749-1330 1-800-5228528 E-Mail: support@fire-police-ems.com www.fire-police-ems.com Price: $29.95 (DVD only)

This is a group of seven major fires in the late 1970’s shot by Sheldon Levy as were the ones in the last reviewed DVD, Volume 2.

The first and most spectacular is a Brooklyn Boro Call at Knickerbocker and Bleeker Streets in July of 1977.

This fire took 23 buildings made up of attached dwellings and loft buildings. The temperature was over 100 degrees that day and the fire was well underway when the recording started.

It was a war zone! People are evacuating some of the dwellings.

The first is shot from all angles as tower ladders, deck guns and handlines operate. It equaled ten alarms.

The next is in March of 1978 and is a fourth alarm in Brooklyn involving 14 frame dwellings with a common cockloft.

The fronts of the dwellings have an extension with a peaked roof which terminates at the main part of the building where the cockloft is.

Roof operations can be noted as the fire burns through it.

The next is in November of 1979 and is a third alarm in Queens at Douglaston Parkway for a group

of 14 three story attached dwellings that were under construction.

Much of it is collapsed and 28 parked vehicles were caught up in it!

A fire on Valentine’s day in 1979 involves a large loft building in Manhattan. This went to a fifth alarm. Fire extended to exposures.

The super pumper arrives and is put to work. Icicles can be seen on the valve handles of the pump while it is there.

A Bronx second alarm is for a five story 100 foot by 100 foot “H” shaped vacant dwelling with the top floor involved at Marcy Place.

Much of this coverage is of Rescue 3 and Ladder 49 providing ventilation off the roof. Some of the Rescue 3 members are wearing work shoes rather than boots.

The next is in March of 1977 for a Manhattan third alarm at 12th Avenue and 30th Street involving a seven story warehouse fully involved.

I actually buffed this job with a group from the Jersey City Gong Club, a canteen service that serves Hudson County across the river in Jersey. We were there until dawn and it eventually went to a second alarm boro call.

At the height of it, 12 tower ladders were operating. The super tender can be seen setting up.

The final fire is a third alarm in Queens for a 120 year old lutheran church located in a cemetery at 70th Street and Metropolitan Avenue.

It is a large church with many stained glass windows that were destroyed.

The fire is throughout and is fought by heavy streams and handlines. It took place in April of 1977.

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Laugh your way to the bank with a stand-up comedy fund-raiser

Who needs to laugh more than the Fire Companies ---the first responders who deal with dangerous circumstances each and every day?

There’s an innovative concept for fund-raising developed by Joey Novick, who is a stand-up comedian and the Fire Commissioner in his hometown: Stand-up comedy shows.

Fire companies can get much-needed laughs and profit financially as well.

Novick's company, ComedyWorks, provides all-star headline comedians from HBO, Comedy Central, Showtime, Last Comic Standing, and the Tonight Show.

Novick’s been producing comedy shows since 1977, and has experience producing shows with such comedians as Jerry Seinfeld, Rosie O’Donnell, Larry The Cable Guy, and Tim Allen.

"The comedians were very funny, and very professional," wrote Mark Bruhmuller, Fire Chief of the Churchtown Fire Company of New York. “Joey Novick did an excellent job. Everybody loves to laugh, and it's a great deal of fun."

ComedyWorks produces more than 300 shows a year, almost 150 of those for emergency service organizations. The money these shows can

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raise varies, depending on things like the number of tickets sold, how they're priced, the amount spent on promotion and whether food and drink are available.

"Mostly companies produce shows in their own facilities, which may hold 300–400 people," says Novick.

"We'll put together a show for them that will bring in comedians from major comedy clubs, with a headliner from HBO, Comedy Central, or the Tonight Show. The feature performer will be someone who's headlined the comedy circuit: Catch a Rising Star, the Improv, the Comedy Store. The host of the show will be a comedian who's very high-energy, like a gameshow host, to get the audience warmed up. A triple headliner show!”

The Somerset Fire Company of New Jersey produces two fundraisers a year through ComedyWorks.

"We've done about ten shows so far, and it's been great," says Mike Rein-

beck, who coordinates the shows for the 65-member volunteer department.

"A friend of mine who had used Joey told me, 'This guy books really good acts.' So, we did the first show, everything was great, and we've been doing shows with Joey ever since."

"I find their people to be very funny," agrees Adam Hubney, chief of the Atlantic Highlands Volunteer Fire Department in New Jersey, which books comedians through ComedyWorks for its annual dinner.

"We have a professional comedy club in our county, and the quality is just as good."

Comedy Works provides a 30-page ‘How-To’ guide that assists organizations through the comedy show production and warns of mistakes to avoid. "We make sure they follow everything in the guide," says Novick. "If a company has never done this before, it gives you everything from you need to know. We make sure that things get done right.

Clients who follow the guide always do very well and tend to make money.”

For information on Comedy Works, call 1 (888) 782-4589, go to www.comedyworks.org or e-mail joeynovick@earthlink.net.

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TERRY RITZ JASON BATZ

One rolled over in Cumru Township Cumru Township, PA. On Wednesday, May 6th, the Berks County Communications Center was following reports of a wreckless driver through Shillington Borough.

Moments later, the communications center received reports of the vehicle rolled over on Philadelphia Avenue. A rescue assignment from Cumru Township Fire and Shillington was dis-

JUMP TO FILE #050615137 patched.

Chief Brady (FC42) was on scene with a mini van rolled over after striking a landscaping trailer.

Rescue-Engine 36 was requested to go in service to access the driver.

An additional rescue crew

from Spring Township was also dispatched to cover Cumru.

With the vehicle stabilized, companies removed the roof and assisted Southern Berks EMS with a backboard extrication.

The driver was removed in 23 minutes, and taken to Reading Hospital. No other injuries were reported.

- JASON BATZ

One car accident in Upper Hanover Twp. Upper Hanover Twp., PA. On Wednesday, May 27, 2015 at 11:55 a.m., East Greenville Fire Company was dispatched to a one car accident on Gravel Pike in Upper Hanover Township. There were no reportable injuries that required any transports. It is unknown why the operator of the car hit objects along the side of the highway. Assisting the fire company were a med unit from Upper Perk EMS, PA State Police, and Pennsburg Fire Police.

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Flammable liquids burn drill Industrial firefighters from a local business train during this flammable liquids class at the Berks County Fire Training Center.

Final call for Ligonier K-9 officer and Wilpen Firefighter Lt. Eric Eslary On May 9th, more than 1,500 police officers and firefighters from around the region came to pay their final respects for Lt. Eric Eslary, a K-9 officer for the Ligonier Township Police Department and firefighter at Wilpen Volunteer Fire Department.

Lt. Eslary was tragically killed on May 5th, while on-duty when his patrol vehicle was struck headon by a drunk driver going the

JUMP TO FILE #051415141 wrong way on Route 30 in Ligonier. Lt. Eslary’s K-9 partner, Blek, was also seriously injured and rushed to the Allegheny Veterinary Emergency Trauma & Specialty in Monroeville. Blek, a 6-year-old German shepherd is now recovering, but remained in the intensive

care unit.

Lt. Eslary was a 17-year veteran of the force and established the department’s K-9 unit in 2000.

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Rollover crash in Carbon County Carbon County, PA. Fire Districts 16 (Albrightsville), 17 (Lake Harmony), and 18 (Kidder Twp #1) responded to a rollover crash on State Route 940 in the area of the Country Inn on May 19. The patient was extricated by members of District 18 and she refused treatment as she only had minor injuries.

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Philadelphia, PA. According to officials, the Amtrak train that crashed on Tuesday, May 12th was going 106 miles per hour before the crash. This speed was more than twice the speed limit of 50 miles per hour approaching the curve in Richmond Hill.

238 passengers and five crew members were aboard Train 188, which originated in Washington D.C. and was traveling to New York City. Eight passengers were killed and over 200 were injured when passengers were thrown within the train and several ejected upon crashing.

JUMP TO FILE #051415110 Train service was suspended and resumed within days.

A preliminary NTSB report states that no anomolies were found with the braking system.

Additional information is pending.

The engineer is still recovering in the hospital from multiple injuries, but he and his lawyer are conferring with investigators.

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Butler City battles early morning Memorial Day house fire City of Butler Station 1, Veterans Affairs Fire Department Station 38 RIT team, Butler Ambulance Service Station 99 along with City of Butler Police were dispatched at 2:40 a.m. on May 25th to 219 East Brady JUMP TO FILE# Street in the City of 052815106 Butler for a residential structure fire.

Upon arrival of the city fire units, they encountered a large volume of fire on the second and third floors of the structure.

A city all call was requested for all off duty firefighters to respond.

Firefighters entered the structure and a offensive attack began. Firefighters knocked down the fire with the use of CAFS lines.

All visible fire was darkened down and overhaul began.

There was no injuries reported to firefighters and no one lived in the structure.

All units were clear from the scene by 5:53a.m.

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Codes, Rules, and Initiatives, a Safety Refresher - Part II STAYING SAFE

Chief Henry Campbell

Last month, we listed the IAFC Rules of Engagement for Firefighter Survival and each rule as proposed by the IAFC has an objective and a NIOSH Fatality Report accompanying it. The objective or purpose of the rule is to correct an action or inaction that generally results in death or injury to a firefighter. The NIOSH report cites an example as to had the rule has been practiced and it may have prevented the incident from occurring.

Below are listed the Firefighter Rules of Engagement and the objective behind each rule.

Size-Up Your Tactical Area of Operation. Objective: To cause the company officer and firefighters to pause for a moment and look over their area of operation and evaluate their individual risk exposure and determine a safe approach to completing their assigned tactical objectives.

Determine the Occupant Survival Profile. Objective: To cause the company officer and firefighter to consider fire conditions in relation to possible occupant survival of a successful rescue event as part of their initial and ongoing individual risk assessment and action plan development.

Do Not Risk Your Life for Lives or Property That Cannot Be Saved. Objective: To prevent firefighters from engaging in high risk search and rescue and firefighting operations which may harm them when fire conditions prevent occupant survival and significant or total destruction of the building is inevitable.

Extend Limited Risk to Protect Savable Property. Objective: To cause firefighters to limit risk exposure to a reasonable, cautious and conservative level when trying to save a building.

Extend Vigilant and Measured Risk to Protect and Rescue Savable Lives. Objective: To cause firefighters to manage search and rescue and supporting firefighting operations in a calculated, controlled and safe manner, while remaining alert to changing conditions, during high risk primary search and rescue operations where lives can be saved.

Go in Together, Stay Together, Come Out Together Objective: To ensure that firefighters always enter a burning building as a team of two or more members and no

firefighter is allowed to be alone at any time while entering, operating in or exiting a building.

Maintain Continuous Awareness of Your Air Supply, Situation, Location and Fire Conditions Objective: To cause all firefighters and company officers to maintain constant situational awareness their SCBA air supply and where they are in the building and all that is happening in their area of operations and elsewhere on the fireground that may affect their risk and safety.

Constantly Monitor Fireground Communications for Critical Radio Reports. Objective: To cause all firefighters and company officers to maintain constant awareness of all fireground radio communications on their assigned channel for progress reports, critical messages or other information that may affect their risk and safety.

You Are Required to Report Unsafe Practices or Conditions That Can Harm You. Stop, Evaluate, and Decide. Objective: To prevent company officers and firefighters from engaging in unsafe practices or exposure to unsafe conditions that can harm them and allowing any member to raise an alert about a safety concern without penalty and mandating the supervisor address the question to insure safe operations.

You Are Required to Abandon Your Position and Retreat Before Deteriorating Conditions Can Harm You. Objective: To cause firefighters and company officers to be aware of fire conditions and cause an early exit to a safe area when they are exposed to deteriorating conditions, unacceptable risk and a life threatening situation.

Declare a May-Day As Soon As You Think You Are in Danger Objective: To insure the firefighter is comfortable with, and there is no delay in, declaring a May-Day when a firefighter is faced with a life threatening situation and the May Day is declared as soon as they Think they are in trouble.

These 11 Rules, if practiced by all firefighters will certainly help improve firefighter safety.

Read them, then reread them and begin to implement them in your daily operations. Simply stated, do your own personal size up at all incidents and if something doesn’t look right, it most likely isn’t.

In the next issue we will have the 14 Rules of Engagement for incident commanders and their objectives.

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Jersey Shore takes part in blessing of trucks Every year on the Sunday before the Memorial Day weekend, members from Independent Hose Company No. 1, in Jersey Shore attend services at a different church in town to honor past members who served the community.

This year the department was invited to services at Trinity Episcopal Church. The Rev Veronica Donohue Chappell, Rector wanted to do more than just have the members attend service. She wanted to go one step further and hold a blessing of the fire trucks this year.

“We didn’t just want to say a prayer. These are important people and I know in big cities they bless the fire trucks, so I went looking for the liturgy through the archives of the Episcopal Church and I found this blessing from 1901, which also included a section to bless the horses, who pulled the engines back then,” explained Chappell.

So, at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday morning, Thompson Street was lined with five of the Independent Hose fire trucks and most of the membership, who bowed their heads in prayer along with a group of church parishioners, while Rev Chappell blessed all the fire apparatus one by one along with her husband Dan Chappell.

JUMP TO FILE #052315102 “It was exciting. There were more trucks than I expected, but I think we made it work,” said Chappell, who had never conducted a blessing of fire trucks before.

Independent Hose has been in Jersey Shore since 1902 and this a first for the company.

“They bless motorcycles and everything else and I think it’s great,” said Ron Markle, who is a member of the church as well as a retired member and Chaplain for the fire company. Markle not only said a prayer for the attending fire company members, but he also read off the names of the members, who had served their fellow residents and passed on.

“This is an organization that serves the people. They need the blessing not only for the trucks, but for the men and women, who volunteer. It shows the community recognizes the sacrifice these people go through for people they don’t even know,” he said. After Sunday services, the church invited all the members to share brunch with them and the congregation.

One of the walls at New Hanover Volunteer Fire & Rescue Station B showing firefighter passenger car and motorcycle license plates from numerous states which also includes several Canadian firefighter license plates.

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Firefighter license plate display in New Hanover Most fire departments will have fire related displays consisting of patches, badges, equipment or fire department memorabilia for the firefighters, visitors or public to view when visiting the fire station. New Hanover Volunteer Fire & Rescue Station 37 in Montgomery County has come up with a unique and different type of fire department display. This display contains an item that firefighters and the general public see everyday on the highways.

New Hanover Volunteer Fire & Rescue Station 37 has a display of over 100 firefighter license plates from the United States and Canada on the walls of their engine room.

These firefighter license plates represent the various types of license plates volunteer and professional firefighters use on their personal cars every day. Some of the firefighter license plates displayed are the current style used and some are

JUMP TO FILE #051915127 older, discontinued styles, no longer used. There are a couple states that will not give out sample firefighter license plates or are too difficult to obtain. For those states a reproduction of the firefighter license plates are displayed.

These firefighter license plates make a colorful display on the walls of the engine room with the many colors and various styles of plates used. Some states, like Pennsylvania, have a simple maltese cross with a firefighter or firefighter wording on the plate. Some states go all out for their firefighters with firefighter figures, badges, flames, diamond plate lettering and so forth.

Most states have two types of firefighter license plates, volunteer and professional. A few states have

retired firefighter license plates. A handful of states even have motorcycle firefighter license plates.

As Pennsylvania no longer has a specific fire department license plate for fire apparatus, there are about a dozen states that do. In addition to the personal firefighter plates displayed on the walls of the engine room of New Hanover Volunteer Fire & Rescue, there are over a dozen fire department and fire apparatus license plates that would be used on fire trucks.

So if you are ever in the western end of Montgomery County, Pa., stop by New Hanover Volunteer Fire & Rescue Station 37 and see the unique colorful display of the various firefighter license plates displayed on the walls of the engine room.

- ROBERT WARD

- PAUL GARRETT

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Motorcycle accident in Lower Milford Township WARD

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Lower Milford Township, Lehigh County, PA. On Thurday, May 14, 2015 at 6:25 p.m., East Greenville Fire Co along with Lower Milford Fire Co., were dispatched to a motorcycle accident on Kings Highway South in Lower Milford Twp. One male operator was injured while riding his motorcycle along a bend on a country road. He was transported to the hospital by the ambulance for a checkup. His condition was unknown. Assisting the fire companies were fire police from Lower Milford, PA State Police, and a med unit from Upper Perk EMS.

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Fire in Piatt Twp, Jersey Shore, leaves mother and son homeless A Jersey Shore mother and her 17 year old son are homeless after fire swept through their one story home Wednesday morning.

Angie Richardson and her son Dylan began the day as normal.

She went to work and Dylan headed off to school.

But, some time between 7:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m., a fire broke out at their home at 54 Losch Lane in Piatt Twp in Jersey Shore.

“We were working in the garage up here and we smelled smoke, so I came out back and I screamed, ‘house on fire.’ So, I called the fire department right away. I saw smoke then all of a sudden flames,,” explained neighbor Joy Miller.

The home was fully engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived, but they quickly had the situation under control within 15 min, according to firefighters on scene.

The Richardson’s have lived in the home for about six years with their male pet cat Tiger, who unfortunately, did not survive the blaze. Their normal day was shattered when Richardson got a text from a neighbor that her home was on fire and Dylan was told by

and says they do have insurance.

Multiple fire companies responded to the blaze including both Jersey Shore fire departments, as well as Avis, Antes Fort, Nippenose, Woodward, and Lock Haven.

The cause of the blaze was accidental and electrical in nature, according to the State Police Fire Marshal.

PAUL GARRETT

JUMP TO FILE #052315100 a classmate that there was a report of a fire at his home.

Both arrived at their house consoling each other on the front lawn of their home along with friends and relatives, as they watched the firefighters try desperately to save their house.

For now, Richardson says they will be staying with her mother

- PAUL GARRETT

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Multi unit housing in Shoemakersville On May 2 the Shoemakersville Fire Co. No.1 held a block party, parade and a four unit housing.

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The Nesquehoning Hose Co. No. 1 runs this 2015 In April, the city of Harrisburg acquired this 1984 Sut- York Area United Fire & Rescue now operates a 2015 Freightliner 4x4/KME Ridgerunner equipped for wildland phen 1500-gpm/500-gwt pumper that will be used as a Spartan ERV 1250/500. back-up piece. It originally served at Bressler Engine and structural firefighting 41 and then as Swatara Twp. reserve Engine 91.

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Work the plank Fire showing from second floor and “Rock” your abs to the core!

FIREFIGHTER FITNESS Lori Ann Hodgkinson

Who isn’t in a rush these days? One of my current clients has just started a new job. Her child’s school schedule has changed and of course nothing coincides with her previously scheduled workout sessions. Normally we train for 45 minutes four days per week.

We can still manage two of those days, but haven’t been able to find 45 minute time blocks anywhere else. Here’s what we have been doing this past month, and so far so good.

As I mentioned, we have two 45 minute sessions per week, but to compensate for the other two 45 minutes sessions lost, we have been training an additional four days for 20 minutes. It’s still ten minutes shy in total of her previous schedule, but she has actually dropped two lbs, a couple of inches and her body fat % has decreased slightly as well.

The 20 minute workouts (although brief) are of higher intensity than her old workouts and contain exercises that are big on movement (and use more than one muscle group at a time). Here’s a sample: We warm up with three minutes of walking then it’s over the stability ball for the jackknife (see instructions at the end of this column). She performs as many as possible in 30 seconds (without using momentum or sacrificing form or alignment).

Next (without resting), it’s straight to squats with shoulder presses (perform dumbbell shoulder presses on the “up” segment of the squat). Again (as with all of the exercises in this workout), it’s as many proper reps in 30 seconds.

Moving right along, it’s over the stability ball again.

This time, it’s for push-ups combined with the jackknife.

The pattern is three push-ups followed by one jacknife for the 30 second duration.

Then, we combine bentover rows with triceps kickbacks.

We finish out the circuit by combining lunges and bicep curls. The arms are curled dur-

ing the “down segment” of the lunge. The pattern is five lunges/bicep curls with the right leg forward followed by five with the left until time has expired. (Sometimes it’s walking lunges and the right and left legs are alternated.)

Believe it or not at this point, we have only been training for about six minutes (including the three minute warm-up). It’s a quick water break (small sips) and back to complete the circuit a total of two more times.

After three full circuits, the workout has taken about 13-15 minutes. I usually use a basic two minute ab routine consisting of crunches and twists as her cool down and finish up by stretching her out during the final three to five minutes.

Of course, I vary the exercises from workout to workout, but continue to combine movements as well as attempt to use exercises that use big movements.

On those two days that we are still able to get in the full 45 minutes, we do a bit more isolation (single movement/muscle exercises) and more traditional cardio with occasional intervals inserted.

If your schedule has changed, constantly changes, you are short on time or are just looking for a change, try putting together something like the sample just described.

They say “change is good”. In this case, so far they are right. My client, as I mentioned, is enjoying great success with this new plan. I will be sure to change it up enough so that it continues to be the case.

Remember, to have your physician’s approval before beginning any exercise program.

The stability ball jackknife: Assume a push-up position with your arms completely straight. Rest your shins on a stability ball. Your body should form a straight line from your head to your ankles. Abdominals tight. Without losing your lower-back posture, roll the stability ball toward your chest by pulling it forward with your feet. Pause, and then return to starting position by lowering your hips and rolling the ball backward.

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On Wednesday, May 6th, at 1:20 p.m., the Upper Darby Fire Department, C Platoon was dispatched to a reported dwelling fire in Unit Block of Ashby Road in the Cardington Section JUMP TO FILE # of Upper Darby 050815117 Township.

First arriving units found fire showing from the second floor of a three story dwelling.

Command used all hands, and added a second RIT team to the assignment.

All searches were negative.

- MICHAEL BAKER

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Schuylkill County, PA. A procession of police cruisers, fire engines and ambulances led the vehicle carrying Joseph Murton V to his final resting place at Odd Fellows Cemetery in Pottsville.

Pottsville Fire JUMP TO FILE # Department Lad- 050615105 ders 21 and 51 set up an arch in front of City Hall, where Murton served the city as a police officer for 42 years.

Murton retired from the Pottsville Police in 2013 as chief, a position he held for 11 years.

Murton was also a life member of the Humane Fire Company and a member of the Pottsville Lions Ambulance.

In addition to being involved in the emergency services, Murton was also a minister at multiple Methodist Churches throughout Schuylkill County.

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