| Fire In a Structure |
| Fri. May 8th 2009 |
At 17:28 Hrs. Station 43 was activated for a smoke investigation behind McDonald's on West Chestnut St. Police unit 43-30 AOS first to find a mattress on fire inside a truck bed that was inside of an abandon garage. Chief 43 then requested the call to be upgraded to a structure fire, and to have the...
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| Structure Burn Class At Station 52 (Canton) |
| Sat. May 2nd 2009 |
On the weekend of May 2, 2009 and May 3, 2009 8 firefighters from station 43 participated in a structure burn class. Scott Anthony, Capt Kris Engle, Derek Gallagher, Shad Hancher, Ryan Ruffa, LT. John Stolfer, Curt Thompson, and LT. Amanda Wolf . The class wa...
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| Cover Assignment |
| Mon. Apr 27th 2009 |
At 16:48 Hrs. Station 43 was activated for a cover assignment at Station 54 Headquarters (City of Washington) Eng 43-3 responded with a crew of 5 as requested by Chief 54. Eng. 43-3 handled 2 other alarms while on assignment. At 22:07 hrs, all 43 equipment was released, and returned withou...
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| Working Vehicle Fire |
| Thu. Apr 16th 2009 |
At 19:06 hrs., The North Franklin volunteers were dispatched for a possible vehicle fire. Chief 43 AOS to find a working engine compartment fire. Eng. 43-3 was the first to arrive on the scene,and was put into operation. Lt. 43 (Amanda Wolf) and FF (Lisa Quinn) used the bumper line to exti...
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| Fuel Spill |
| Wed. Apr 15th 2009 |
At 21:55 Hrs. The North Franklin volunteers were dispatched for a fuel spill at the BP fuel station on West Chestnut St. Approx 5 gallons of fuel was spilled when a customer inserted the fuel dispencing nozzle into the vehicle and the emergency break-away device failed, thus spilling the f...
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| Possible Brush Fire |
| Sun. Mar 8th 2009 |
Station 43 was activated for a possible Brush Fire on McElree Rd Sunday afternoon. Chief 43 - 1 (Dave Bane) responded to the scene, while Brush 43 responded from Station 43-1 (Lincoln Hill) with 1 firefighter, Tanker 43 and Car 43-1 responded with 2 firefighters each from Station 43 (Gabby) and Car ...
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| Busy Saturday |
| Sat. Mar 7th 2009 |
Saturday March 7th, 2009 was already planned to be a busy day for North Franklin Firefighters as the Semi- Annual Fund raiser Vegas Night at Station 43 (Gabby). Unfortunately, on top of that, it ended up being a very busy day of Emergency responses also.
Throughout the county, grass fires had erupt...
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| Structure Fire in South Franklin |
| Sun. Feb 15th 2009 |
On the morning of February 15, 2009, Company 43 was activated along with Station 42 (Morris Twp) to assist Station 32 ( South Franklin Twp) with a possible Structure Fire. Engine 43 - 3 (with a six man crew) and Engine 43-2 (with a three man crew) arrived on scene to find Chief 32 (Fidazzo) and his ...
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| Training Night at South Strabane |
| Wed. Jan 21st 2009 |
Members of Station 43 reported to Station 44 -1 in Pancake for a STAT Medevac LZ safety class on Wednesday January 21st, 2009. Outreach Cooridnator Jami Craig did a powerpoint presentation and arranged a landing of MedEvac 1 from Washington Hospital at the predisignated Helispot ( LZ) behind station...
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| Fire alarms |
| Sun. Jan 18th 2009 |
On January 18th, 2009 Station 43 was activated for two Fire alarms. One at 0124 hrs at PMC and one at 1043 hrs at the former Blaine Buffalo School in Blaine Township. Both calls resulted in false alarms that Engine 43 - 3 was cancelled in route to....
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