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Monday, July 4, 2011
0535 Hours Fire alarm dispatched units to 949 Summer Hill Cir in the 0523 box. E51 arrived on the scene with smoke showing and requested the All-hands. Squad 12 arrived behind E71 and went to work opening up for fire attack and checked for extension. With the fire placed under control command scaled the assignment back and Squad 12 returned to service at 0738 hours.
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Sunday, July 3, 2011
At 1558 Engine 121 was dispatched to the intersection of Ritchie Hwy and East West Blvd in the 1205 box for a brush fire. While the wagon was enroute fire alarm received numerous calls reporting a house on fire and Fire alarm upgraded to a box. Engine 121 arrived at 16 Arcada Rd W with a vehicle on fire next to a vacant dwelling. The crew from Engine 121 and Engine 181 extinguished the fire before it extended to the dwelling and command held Engine's 121 and 181 and returned the rest of the box.
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Sunday, July 3, 2011
Fire alarm started to receive multiple calls at 2040 hours for a house on fire at 661 Creek Rd in the 2302 box. Engine 231 arrived on the scene with smoke showing from the eves. Engine 121 arrived second and picked up Engine 231's line as the crew backed up company 23. Crews had fire on the second floor and found that the fire started in the basement. All crews on scene made quick work of the fire and checked for extension. Engine 121 cleared the scene at 2352 hours.
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Saturday, July 2, 2011
While the fireman of the "Heights" were enjoying some much needed sleep after a busy day half, a box alarm was struck for a reported Townhouse fire in 30's first due. Due to the Quint still being out of service and 30 in a Truck E121 (FF Wolford) was first due engine. Truck 30, Engine 121, and Battalion 2 arrived with a 3 story middle of the row townhouse with nothing showing. As the crews from 12 & 30 made entry to the home they came across a moderate smoke condition. The Officer from 12 opened the door leading from the house into the garage to find heavy smoke and moderate heat. Upon further investigation a working fire in the garage was held in check by a broken water pipe. The lineman from E121 mopped up. Truck 30 and E121 crews opened up the heavily charred garage to find minor extension. Units on the box were out for about an hour.
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Squad 12 (FF Wolford) was dispatched today as the third due special service on a apartment fire in the Old Greentree Apartments. The Engine and Tower from 26 arrived with light smoke showing from a 3 story apartment building on side Alpha. While conducting a 360 Lt. 26 (Price) stated he had heavy smoke on side Charlie. The Tower Officer confirmed that they had a kitchen off on one of the second floor apartments. The Squad and Quint 4 arrived together with the Squad's firefighter heading to division 3 to assist with a primary search above the fire floor. Crews forced a door and conducted a primary to find a few cats that were removed by 33 and 12's crew. After a leader line was stretched 26's lineman put a quick knock on the fire. Command requested a 2nd alarm due to the heat and initial size-up. Squad 12 provided the initial alarm with quality air after the fire was under control and went in service after about two hours.
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Wednesday, June 22, 2011
At 0020 hours Fire alarm started to receive calls for a house on fire at 745 Cypress Rd in the 2305 box. Units from station 23 arrived with smoke showing from a single family dwelling. E122 dispatched third due arrived second and picked up the plug. The crew went to work venting side "C" and checking for extension and extinguishing any hot spots. Crews made quick work of the fire and the wagon from 12 returned to service in about an hour and a half.
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Monday, June 20, 2011
At 2113 hours Fire alarm received multiple calls for an explosion and fire at a machine shop at 186 Obrecht Rd in the 1210 box. Pm18 clearing a call in the area arrived on the scene of a 2 story multi-use building (Apartments on the second floor machine shop on the first) with heavy fire showing. E122 arrived and strecthed a 200' handline and started to knock down visible fire. Truck 23 gained access and the engine crew from 12 and 18 made a push to knock down the remaining fire. Qnt's 23 and 30 laddered the structure and searched the second floor apartments. Units on the scene made quick work of the fire. The engine company cleared the scene at 0012 hours.
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Photo by Craig Urban |
Photo by Craig Urban |
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Monday, June 20, 2011
At 0510 hrs Fire alarm dispatched units to 770 Duvall Hwy in the 3014 box for a vehicle into the structure. Sq12 arrived on scene first with a truck overturned in the front yard. The captain from sq12 established Duvall command. Upon further investigation it was found that the vehicle did not hit the dwelling and that the driver fled the scene. Command held squad 12 and returned the remainder of the rescue assignment. Command was cancelled and Squad 12 returned to service approx. 10 mins later with the scene turned over to the county police.
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Thursday, June 9, 2011
At 1750 hours Fire alarm started to receive numerous calls for fire through the roof at 7818 Faulkner Rd in the 415 box. Qnt 4 arrived on the scene of a 2 story single family dwelling with heavy fire showing. BC3 arrived and transmitted the 2nd alarm. Sq12 arrived on the scene and was put to work checking exposure delta. The squad crew forced entry into the delta exposure and checked the entire dwelling. After the squad crew gave an all clear in the exposure, command sent the crew to division 2 in the original fire building to extinguish what remaining fire was in there and all hot spots. With all fire extinguished and temperatures being in the triple digits, Sq12 went to rehab and later returned to service at 1939 hours.
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