Fatal MVA | 778 Centennial Road

October 19, 2009

Rescue 33 assisted Company 19 this morning with a fatal vehicle accident, with a car into a house.

Photos courtesy of Company 19.

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Vehicle Accident with Injuries | York Road

October 17, 2009

Saturday, October 17, 2009 Station 33-1 dispatched to the 4700 Block York Road for Vehicle Accident with Injuries. R33 and 33A-1 responded.         Pictures by Steve Roth from SJRoth Photography

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Vehicle Accident with Entrapment | 200 Block of Swift Run Road

October 11, 2009

Units that responded on the call were United Hook and Ladder Company #33 Rescue 33, Engine 33-1, Ambulance 33A, Assistant 33, and Chief 33 in the Duty Vehicle. Gettysburg Engine 1-1, Ambulance 1A, Gettyburg Hospital Medic 28-1, and Medic 28-2. Also numerous fire police from Gettysburg responded and provided traffic control.

UH&LC#33 Pictures By Dustin Weese

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MVA with Entrapment | Route 94 in the area of Hanover Concrete

October 8, 2009

 At 18:10 units were dispatched for a MVA involving a car and a tractor trailer truck.  Adams County  911 advised units responding that the call was reported to be  head on with entrapment.   Assistant Chief 33 arrived on scene and confirmed dispatch.   Shortly after Assistant Chief 33 arrived on scene Chief 33 arrived on scene assumed command.  Command 33 advised units responding as well as  Adams county that the tractor trailer truck was a tanker truck with approximately 8000 gallons of gasoline on board.   United Hook and Ladder Company  responded with Rescue 33, E33-1, E33-2, Ambulance 33A, Assistant 33, and Chief 33 in the Duty Vehicle. Medic 46 and Ambulance 49-2 assisted on the call as well. Photos by 911 Photography

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Vehicle Accident with Injuries | York Road at New Chester Road

October 6, 2009

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New Engine 33-2 | Sutphen Corporation

October 3, 2009

Latest paint spefication drawings of Engine 33-2

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10-45 1200 Red Hill Road | Oxford Township

September 29, 2009

United Hook & Ladder was dispatched to 1200 Red Hill Road at 20:35 for a MVA with injuries. One vehicle overturned in a ditch resting on a tree stump no one in vehicle. No pt found 33A-1, YCA-49 and Medic 46 placed in service. E33-1 provided lighting; E33-2 and R33 assigned fluid control. Fire Police from 33 on scene assisted Eastern Adams Regional Police with traffic control. Units cleared at 21:04. Pictures by Steve Roth from SJRoth Photography,

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Vehicle Accident | Golf Cart Services

September 29, 2009

At 09:40 Lt. Emig requested a single engine respond for debris removal from a vehicle accident in front of Golf Cart Services. One vehicle traveled off the roadway and struck a golf cart as well as several rocks.

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Vehicle Accident with Fire | York Road at Strausbaugh Fruit Market

September 28, 2009

In the early morning hours FF/EMT Staub came across a Car vs. Tractor Trailer with injuries. Gettysburg Fire Department was dispatched and later requested Engine 33-1 to assist with fire inside the tractor trailer.

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Vehicle Accident | 2100 Block of Bon-Ox Road

September 26, 2009

Shortly after returning from the accident in front of McDonalds, units were dispatched for a vehicle accident in the 2100 block of Bon-Ox road. The 2 vehicle accident left one overturned and one patient with minor injuries. Rescue 33, Engine 33-1, Ambulance 33A, and Ambulance 19A handled the call.

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Vehicle Accident | 6040 York Road

September 26, 2009

Company 33 was dispatched at 09:10 for a 2 vehicle accident with injuries in front of McDonalds. Rescue 33, Engine 33-1, and Ambulance 33A handled the call.

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Abbottstown Spirit Picnic Fire Prevention | Abbottstown Park

September 19, 2009

UH&L Pictures by Dale Reichert

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Progress New Engine 33-2 | Sutphen Corporation

September 18, 2009

Progress of the building of the body for the new Sutphen Engine. The new Engine will replace current Engine 33-2. Also included are the latest spefications drawings.

 

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Structure Fire | 910 Dicks Dam Rd

September 17, 2009

This evening at 1629 hours Company 33 was alerted for a structure fire with reports of a burn patient. The units from Company 33 on the call were Truck 33, Engine 33-1, 33A, and 33A-1 from the New Oxford Station and Engine 33-2 and Tanker 33 from the Abbottstown Station.  

Command 10 (Captain 10 P.J. Trimmer) arrived on the scene and advised that he had a working fire with a burn victim in the front yard. Truck 33 crew spilt, with 3 members assisting with fire attack while the other 2 members cut 2 ventilation holes in the roof. Engine 33-1 arrived on scene and supplied Engine 10-1 and the crew from Engine 33-1 assisted with salvage and overhaul.   Engine 33-2 had a change in assignment while enroute to the scene. They were diverted to Company 10 for a landing zone for the burn patient.

All Company 33 apparatus was available at 1754 hours. Also a special thanks to Engine Tanker 29 for transferring to the New Oxford Station and also to Steve Roth from SJRothphotography for the picture of the fire.

For more pictures and news paper stories please go to the following websites:

www.flickr.com/photos/steverothphotography/

www.gettysburgtimes.com/articles/2009/09/18/top_stories/doc4ab36b17f1d15052543963.txt

www.eveningsun.com/ci_13360374?source=most_viewed

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Structure Fire | 774 Peepytown Road

September 15, 2009

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9-11 Rememberance | National Fire Academy, Emmitsburg, MD

September 11, 2009

In rememberance of the 9-11-2001 the National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg, MD has erected a memorial. Here are a few photos taken by Ken Deatrick on 9/11/2009. (disregard the wrong date on some of the photos, I fixed it later)

Here is a link on some activites today there as well.

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Vehicle Accident | 450 Kohler Mill Road

September 11, 2009

At 3:33 PM on September 11, 2009, Adams County Communications dispatched United Hook and Ladder Company #33, Irishtown Fire Company, Ambulances from United Hook and Ladder Company #33, S.A.V.E.S, and Hanover Hospital ALS to the area of 450 Kohler Mill Road for a vehicle accident with confinement. Ambulance 33A went responding and arrived on location shortly after responding and advised that the vehicle is on its side with all occupants out of the vehicle. Rescue 33, Engine 14-1, 29A, and York County Medic 46 all went responding with in 5 minutes after dispatch. Rescue 33 then arrived on location and held the box to Rescue 33 and 33A.

 UH&LC #33 photos taken by Dustin Weese

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Public Service - PIG Rescue | 100 Homestead Lane

September 2, 2009

Around 9:15 PM Adams County communications contact Assistant Chief 33 for a public service. Assistant Chief 33 respond to the location. After arriving on location, he had Service 33 and Brush 33 Dispatched for public service, 2 pigs down a well. Engine 33-1 in place of Service 33 and Brush 33 responded on the call. Later in the call Chief 33 arrived on location, assessed the situation and requested Rescue 33 to the scene. The crews of Engine 33-1, Rescue 33, Brush 33, Assistant Chief 33, and Chief 33, as well as members of a specialized animal rescue team rescued two hogs out of a well. All units cleared the scene at 2:22 AM.

 

UH&LC#33 Pictures By Dustin Weese

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Adams County Disaster Drill | The Brethren Home Complex

August 29, 2009

Preparing for disaster Emergency services personnel participate in mass-casualty drill Saturday By MELODY ASPER For The Evening Sun Posted: 08/30/2009 01:00:00 AM EDT   If there were any theatrical agents in the Cross Keys area on Saturday morning, they would have found more then a few potential stars getting into their roles as part of a mass-casualty drill conducted at CrossKeysVillage - The Brethren Home Community. "I want my mother. Where is my mother?" cried one 80-year-old "victim" identified only as Dorothy as a fireman helped her out of the building. With a wry smile, Dorothy said her "injures," written on a plastic-coated card attached to her arm, were a bleeding head injury and severe disorientation. After identifying her injuries for the press, Dorothy went back into her role as a bewildered victim. "Can you please find my mother?" she cried in a shrill, girlish voice. "She's got to be looking for me." The scenario Dorothy and a cast of about 150 other volunteers played out Saturday was that a tornado had hit the Brethren Home Community outside New Oxford at 9 that morning. The volunteers included Brethren Home assisted-living and cottage residents, family members of emergency workers and others. Every fire company in AdamsCounty and six from YorkCounty were on the scene, said Joe Swartz, public information officer for United Hook and Ladder No. 33. Pretend casualties were littered throughout the 250-acre complex, which has a real resident population of more than 900 people and a workforce of 600, said Frank Buhrman, Brethren Home communications director. Brethren Home representatives and emergency-services personnel worked on plans for the "mass casualty" drill for six to eight months, Buhrman said. Saturday's scenario was the first large-scale drill ever to be done at the Brethren Home or in the immediate area. While area fire companies knew there was going to be some type of drill Saturday, no one responding was notified beforehand of the scenario, location or extent of catastrophe involved. The initial 911 call was sent in to AdamsCounty for a pulled fire alarm at 9 a.m., Buhrman said, and the response from area emergency services came quickly. United Hook and Ladder Fire Chief Steve Rabine was on the scene about five minutes later. The first United Hook and Ladder fire truck arrived within about seven minutes, said EMS Medic 46 outreach coordinator Bruce Yealy, with more equipment from other companies arriving in about 12 minutes. Fifteen fire engines, three rescue vehicles, nine ambulances, two boats, two ladder trucks, a scuba team and two medic units responded to the drill, Swartz said. The boats and scuba team were brought in for a scenario that the tornado had caused a boat to capsize on the campus' pond, leaving two occupants missing and presumed underwater. Many of the actual assisted-living residents were apprehensive about participating in the exercise, said residential services manager Annette Wilt, so the residents who did not want to participate were taken to a safe and secure area away from the commotion. As more of the supposed patients were brought out of the facility during the drill, EMS personnel quickly worked to evaluate, or triage, the injuries so the worst "injured" would go to the hospital first. Within minutes, EMS member Juan Cortez of United Hook and Ladder was working to keep ambulatory "patients" together and talking to him as he waited for ambulances to pick them up. "I am monitoring them at all times," Cortez said. "I constantly keep communicating with the patients until we can get them away from the scene and to the hospital." Other areas of the Brethren Home campus also were involved in the drill. The disaster scenario included a resident "trapped" in an elevator at the Harmony Ridge apartment complex, a cottage with its roof ripped off and the occupants buried under debris, and a number of "disoriented" individuals wandering throughout the complex and in the nearby woods. Another issue to be dealt with immediately was an "unknown cloud" of vapor on the property's southern boundary. That scenario later would be identified as a toxic spill from an overturned truck as a result of the tornado, Buhrman said. As each of the incidents was discovered, he said, specific groups of emergency workers were sent to each scene to remedy the situation. "Our campus presents the perfect kind of scenario that they (the emergency responders) wanted to train on," Buhrman said. "These guys have done really great on everything that they do and it was felt that now its time to push them further and see what they else can do." Throughout the exercise the "victims" made sure that emergency responders got a full workout, as many stayed in character throughout the ordeal. Andy Grimm, a volunteer at the facility, portrayed a victim "with a lot of anxiety." Grimm was one of about 40 "patients" led down the stairwell from the fourth floor. "You should have heard it in the stairwell," he said. "There was so much screaming and crying, and it sounded real - I couldn't tell if it was actually real or not." Brady Goulden, a 15-year-old whose mother works at GettysburgHospital, volunteered as an "elderly victim." He was amazed at how real the situation seemed. "There was a lot of screaming, and there were smoke effects that really seemed real, but we all could breathe OK," he said. "It sure was realistic." June Livingston, who said she was celebrating her 78th birthday Saturday, smiled as she said that the drill was not only exciting and fun but also important. The card listing her "injury" described her as having a hurt leg, but she said she actually does have a "bad leg" and uses a cane. "I can get around OK, but there are a lot of people here who can't help themselves," Livingston said. "This is a great way to find out how they can be helped when they need it." Many of the emergency responders echoed Livingston's sentiments. "This is a very good exercise to evaluate the emergency-service aspects of the entire area," Schwartz said. "The drill encompasses not only the Brethren Home but (also) local, county and even state cooperation." While firefighters and emergency responders had the "tornado" site under their control within just a few hours, about 50 fake victims were to be taken to the emergency rooms at Hanover and Gettysburg hospitals, Yealy said. "That's way more then ... either of the emergency rooms can handle at a time," he said. "But that is what this is supposed to do -- test all of our limits." UH&LC#33 Pictures By Luke Small

 

 

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Vehicle Accident with Entrapment | Rt. 30 - Lincoln St

August 11, 2009

Aug. 11, 2009

Box 33-2, Head on crash on Rt. 30 at Lincoln St. Pictures by Steve Roth from SJRoth Photography

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ACVESA Convention Parade | New Oxford

August 8, 2009

Parade Results

Best appearing engine (in service) in county

1. York Springs E9-2
2. Bendersville E7-1
3. Arendtsville E5-1

Best appearing engine out of county

1. Fort Deatrick E502

Best appearing tanker in county

1. Heidlersburg T25
2. York Springs T9
3. Biglerville T6

Best appearing tanker out of county

1. Hellam YC T21
2. Pleasant Valley CC T6

Best appearing Aerial platform or Truck

1. Gettysburg T1
2. SAVES Q29

Best appearing Rescue in county

1. Barlow R22
2. Biglerville R6
3. SAVES R29

Best appearing and most functional Service, Squad, or Special Unit

1. Fountaindale SU3
2. Biglerville S6

Best appearing Brush Unit

1. SAVES B29
2. Bendersville MP7

Best appearing Ambulance

1. Biglerville 6A1
2. SAVES 29A

Best appearing Advance Life Support Unit (ALS)

1. Hanover Hospital M46

Judges Award

1. Irishtown

Most Comical Entry

1. Bonneauville (kid in cart)

Best appearing Fire Department Owned Motorized Antique Fire Apparatus

1. East Berlin

Best appearing Privately Owned Motorized Antique Fire Apparatus

1. Topper Cramer (ambulance)

Best appearing Non-Motorized Antique fire apparatus

1. East Berlin

Best appearing antique car or truck

1. Gary Rickrode

Best appearing fire prevention float

1. Fort Deatrick Tiller Biglerville ATV safety

Fire apparatus coming the longest distance

1. East Berlin, CT

Best appearing uniformed fire company or department Marching unit

1. SAVES
2. East Berlin

Best appearing uniformed Jr. fire company or department Marching unit

1. East Berlin

Best appearing school band/ musical organization

1. New Oxford High School

Best Appearing over all fire company, in parade line with 2 or more pieces of in service apparatus
In County

1. East Berlin

Out of County

1. Seven Valleys

The Harry L. Moul, Jr. Memorial Award (Traveling Trophy and Plaque) FOR ADAMS COUNTY CO.
Biglerville Hose and Truck Company

 

Click here to see SJ Roth Photography photos of the convention parade.

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Golf Tournament | The Bridges Golf Club

August 7, 2009

The United Hook & Ladder Company hosted their annual golf tournament in conjunction with the annual ACVESA firefighters' convention. The golf tournament was followed by a deck party at The Bridges. Thanks to all the teams that participated, our hole/tee sponsors, and The Bridges for all making this possible.

Click here to see SJ Roth Photography photos of the Golf Tournament

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ACVESA Convention Meeting | New Oxford Station

August 6, 2009

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Pump Training | Adams County Training Center

July 18, 2009

On July 18, 2009 an in house Pump Training was held at the Adams County Training Center. This was for new Drivers to learn the equipment and current drivers to refresh. Engine 33-1, Engine 33-2 and Truck 33 was the equipment there.

Pictures by Timothy Reichert

 

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UHAUL Fire | Cross Keys Mini Storage

July 14, 2009

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