About 8:30pm this evening, Penn Wynne Fire Company was dispatched as the FAST/RIT Team to a building fire at the Church of the Redeemer in Bryn Mawr.
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It was a beautiful day with all Lower Merion Fire Department companies gathering at the Montgomery County Public Safety Fire Academy for the official dedication of Firefighters Sean DeMuynck and Thomas Royds to the line of duty death memorial. Inspirational words and fond memories were shared of both men. Then representatives from both families laid wreaths at the memorial.

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Penn Wynne Fire Company was dispatched to an apartment fire in Ardmore about 11:40pm. Engine 21 was assigned to establishing a water supply which included dropping about 600 feet of 5" supply line. Firefighters also assisted with a primary search above the fire floor and helped vent the building to help extinguish the fire.
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Today, a special request came into the station to assist the township animal warden with a bird dangling in a tree. A turkey vulture somehow had a wire wrapped around it and a tree branch. Ladder 21's aerial was raised into position so the animal warden could ascend and free the animal.

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Tonight, Penn Wynne firefighters ran their monthly live fire training at the township training facility. Burn drills are great for practicing our skills in a smoke, heat, and fire filled environment.
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Today, the Penn Wynne Fire Company Honor Guard, along with the Merion Fire Company of Ardmore Honor Guard, and other members of the Lower Merion Fire Department, participated in the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade in Conshohocken. The weather was perfect, the crowd was huge, and the celebration was exciting and fun.

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Tonight, Penn Wynne firefighters were given the opportunity to train/drill in a vacant house. This is a unique opportunity in that the #1 advantage it offers firefighters is an unknown floorplan with which to perform fire suppression operations.

Firefighters drilled through evolutions on fire attack, primary search and rescue, and vent, enter, isolate, search (VEIS).

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Just after midnight, LMFD was dispatched to I-76 for a vehicle fire. A FedEx tractor trailer caught fire. With a heavy fuel load and limited access to a water supply, several engines were called to the scene including Paoli's pumper-tanker and Penn Wynne's, Engine 21.

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