The annual fire company social is just around the corner, and the Penn Wynne Fire Company invites all area first responders to come and gather for a night of good food and camaraderie at 8PM on Thursday February 25th at the firehouse..
MORE SNOW!
Date:
2.9.10-2.10.10
The Delaware Valley was hit with yet another significant snow fall, this one producing a heavier, wetter snow. This made clearing more difficult, and brought down wires and tree limbs all over the area. Once again members stepped up to the plate and manned the station for 48 hours.
The company reminds all citizens to please adopt a hydrant on your street and clear the mound of snow that covers it. This helps us better protect you!
ANOTHER MAJOR SNOW STORM
Date:
2.5.10-2.6.10
The Delaware
Valley was hit with another major snow storm Friday night
and most of Saturday, totally 28 inches. Eight (8)
dedicated volunteers manned the station for 36 hours,
answering three calls. The first call was an accidental
fire alarm, the second call was a vehicle rescue where
no services were rendered, and finally we went out to assist
the ambulance on a medical local.
RIT
21 ON FATAL APARTMENT FIRE
Date:
2.2.10
Tuesday evening
Station 25 (Ardmore) was dispatched to the Hunter House
Apartments at 449 West Montgomery Avenue for a fire alarm
activation. The call was upgraded to a building fire with
residence reporting smoke on the second floor with one
apartment door feeling hot. The Working Fire upgrade was
added to the ticket bringing Engine and Air 24 along with
Rescue 21 for the RIT. The RIT crew of 6 arrived and staged
our equipment at the command post. A minute later we were
requested to go to work and assist with searches and
evacuating the residence. Engine 21 was dispatched to take
over RIT duties. Rescue 21's crew split up and each took a
different floor, conducting secondary searches and smoke
evacuations. Engine 25's crew held the fire to the bedroom
it started in, unfortunately one victim was found in that
bedroom and was deceased.
Units on Scene: Ardmore (full
company), Bryn Mawr (full company), Gladwyne (full company),
Rescue & Engine 21, Narberth Ambulance, Lower Merion Fire
Department Office, Lower Merion Police, Montgomery County
Detectives & Coroner.
HOSPITAL RESCUE
Date:
2.1.10
This morning
Company 21, Rescue 22, and Narberth Ambulance were
dispatched to Lankenau Hospital for an injured worker on a
roof. Assistant 21-1 (D. Gilbert) arrived and established
the command. Crews found an injured worker on the roof,
with no technical rescue equipment needed to remove him.
The victim was carried off of the roof and handed over to
Lankenaus' Emergency Department.
THREE
FOR SATURDAY
Date:
1.30.10
Saturday morning
Engine 21 relocated to The Village of Gladwyne while they
operated at a three alarm apartment complex fire in Chester
County. Three hours into the coverage, a building fire was
dispatched in the Ardmore section of the township. Chief 25
was quickly on scene reporting a working fire with
entrapment. The working fire upgrade brought the balance of
Penn Wynne and the cover up Engine into the scene. Crews
from Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Penn Wynne and Gladwyne operated in
a three story twin converted to apartments with fire that
started in the basement and extended to the second floor. As
we were wrapping up, we were treated to a some snow which
ended up blanketing the area. Later that night the company
went to the unit block of Henley Road for an oven fire.
Crews secured the oven that caught fire in an attempt to
ride the house of some wildlife that had entered.
