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Working House Fire in the 1st Due
   Picture from Glenn Usdin
   Tower 67 at Station 24
Friday, July 2, 2010
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The day started out early at 0142 hours with Tower 67 being alerted to relocate to Fire Station 24 (Eden) while they worked a house fire in the township. Tower 67 staffed with six stood by with Engine 633 (Lafayette) for just over one hour with no calls. Then the next run came at 0601 hours with Companies 67, 68 (West Lancaster), 66 (Lancaster Twp), 211 (Southern Manheim Twp), 76 (West Hempfield), and 65 (Millersville) to the 2300 block of Marietta Avenue for a house on fire. Engine 671, Engine 672, Tower 67, Chief 67, Chief 67A, and Lt 672 made the response with a total staffing of 12. Units were advised of multiple calls of a working fire and possible entrapment, with the units confirming a working fire from the firehouse with the Working Fire Dispatch being struck. Engine 671 arrived and secured their own water supply with the crew advancing a suppression line, while Tower 67 started the primary search of the structure. Engine 672 took side Alpha and deployed a second line to assist with fire suppression. Engine 681 arrived and was instructed to assist with searching the structure. The search crew’s located two occupants on the second floor that were removed with EMS transporting them to the local trauma center, were both occupants succumbed to their injuries. After the bulk of the fire was knocked down, all crews were pulled from the structure after the discovery that the household contained hazardous material. Once the Haz-Mat teams deemed the structure to be safe, operations resumed with crews remaining on the scene into the afternoon. The Rohrerstown Fire Company would like to thank all the companies that assisted on the scene and to the Rheem’s Fire Company for covering our firehouse while we operated on the incident. Additional companies that assisted on the scene were 715 (Mountville), 23 (East Petersburg), 29 (Haz-Mat), and Lebanon 50 (Haz-Mat).