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Jan 27 2015

Flourtown Responds to Overnight Fire

On January 28th, 2015 at approximately 0052 hours, the Barren Hill Volunteer Fire Company along with mutual aide companies from the Flourtown Fire Company, Wissahickon Fire Company, Fort Washington Fire Company and Oreland Fire Company responded to the Washington Towers Apartments, 491 Bethlehem Pike for a reported apartment fire. Numerous calls reporting the fire were received by the Montgomery County 911 system who immediately upgraded the assignment. Upon arrival of Law Enforcement personnel from Whitemarsh Township and Upper Dublin Township, a large volume of smoke and fire was showing from a second floor rear apartment in Building #1. Due to the large amount of smoke and fire, numerous residents sought refuge on exterior balconies and required rescue. Law Enforcement personnel began rescuing civilians from the lower balconies ahead of the Fire Companies arrival. Upon arrival of Fire personnel, crews began making civilian rescues from the 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors using grounds ladders and aerial ladder devices. Crews also began making an aggressive interior attack on the fire which had completely consumed the entire second floor apartment prior to the fire company’s arrival.


Primary and secondary searches of the apartment building were made and all occupants were accounted for. Multiple hand-lines were stretched to the 2nd and 3rd floor apartments as the fire extended to the 3rd floor apartment directly above the original unit that was on fire. A partial collapse of the 3rd floor apartment rear bedroom floor occurred during the course of the fire attack. Firefighters held the bulk of the fire damage to the 2nd and 3rd floor apartment with smoke and water damage elsewhere in the building. The fire remains under investigation by the Whitemarsh Township Fire Marshal’s Office.

Command at the incident special called four ladder companies and two engine companies above the original 1st alarm assignment to assist at the scene. Several EMS agencies were also on scene assisting Whitemarsh EMS.

Three civilians were transported to the Hospital with non-life threatening injuries and no firefighters were hurt during this incident.

During this incident, temperatures continued to fall and firefighters faced a tremendous amount of challenges from the cold weather and icing in addition to the actual fire incident. Thanks to the Sague Bus Company of Lafayette Hill who provided two buses for shelter for both firefighters and civilians who were on scene.

Thank you to ALL of our local VOLUNTEER firefighters who spent the better part of four hours battling this blaze this morning. Your hard work and dedication to a successful outcome of this incident truly prevented what certainly could have been a disastrous tragedy. Great Work!

Chris Schwartz
Fire Chief – BHVFC

This post appears courtesy of the Barren Hill Volunteer Fire Company, which was originally posted by their Chief of Operations on Facebook.

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Written by Rob Brzezinski · Categorized: Featured, Recent Incidents · Tagged: Barren Hill, FFCo, fire, Flourtown, Fort Washington, Oreland, rescue, Squad 6, Wissahickon, Wyndmoor

Nov 25 2014

Crew Responds to a Building Fire

On Monday, November 24, 2014, crews from Flourtown Fire Company (6), Barren Hill Fire Company (29), Spring Mill Fire Company (45), Fort Washington Fire Company (88), Oreland Fire Company (700), and Wissahickon Fire Company (7) responded to a commercial building fire at the Washington Towers Apartments.

Fire Marshall (FM) 32 arrived on-scene at approximately 12:48pm, and reported a medium smoke condition in the lower level of the building.  Shortly, thereafter FM 32 assumed command, and a second alarm was struck after reporting a fire in a basement apartment of the four-story structure by 29 Command three minutes later.

The bulk of the fire was knocked-down within minutes, and the fire was placed under control at 1:02pm.

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Written by Rob Brzezinski · Categorized: Firehouse News, Recent Incidents · Tagged: Barren Hill, Engine 6, fire, Flourtown, Fort Washington, Oreland, Wissahickon

Aug 26 2014

Station 88 Barrel Fights

For the second year in a row, the crew from Flourtown Fire Co. took first place in the annual barrel fights hosted by Fort Washington Fire Company.

Teams from local companies gathered at the Fort Washington Fire Co.’s training grounds on Monday, August 18th to compete against each other in a “barrel fight”.

A “barrel fight” consists of a steel barrel hung on a zip line between two poles, and it is sprayed with water from a fire hose on opposite ends by each team.  The team that was able to push the barrel to the other side is the winner.  Essentially, it is a fire hose tug-of-war, but with pushing rather than pulling.

Way to go Station 6!

88 Barrel Fights CrewPictured left to right: Firefighters Sal Santangelo, Tyler Buckley, Ross Pike, Andrew Johnson & Ryan Johnson

 

Written by Rob Brzezinski · Categorized: Training · Tagged: Flourtown, Fort Washington, Training

Aug 08 2014

Flourtown Assists Station 88 at Commercial Building Fire

On the morning of August 8th, at 02:05 hours, Ladder 6 was dispatched to assist the Fort Washington Fire Company (Station 88) at a commercial building fire in Upper Dublin Township.

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Written by Rob Brzezinski · Categorized: Recent Incidents · Tagged: fire, Flourtown, Fort Washington, Ladder 6

Jan 05 2014

Pizzeria Fire – Flourtown Plaza – 1/4/14

At 22:22 hours on 1/4/14 Montgomery County Department of Public Safety dispatched crew from Stations 6, 700,  82 to Flourtown Plaza Shopping Center, at the corner of Bethlehem Pike and East Mill Road for a report of smoke for the building,  Springfield Township Police (28PD) arrived on scene with smoke showing from a single story stripmall of six stores, Chief 6 arrived and reported heavy smoke and fire smoke showing from the roof line, Eng 6 arrived side A and deployed hand lines, Chief 6 established command and reported fire through the roof and ordered the 2nd alarm to be struck, fire companies on scene were Stations 6, 700, 82, 29, 45, 7, 88, 400, and EMS 311 & 318, Crews were also assisted by 28 & 32 Police departments & Springfield Public Works for icy road and parking lot areas. The deep-seated fire was contained to Flourtown Pizza Restaurant, and the evacuation order was requested to go into a defensive fire stance, with master streams and aerial streams put into service to protect other exposures which suffered water and smoke damage on either side of the pizza shop. Flourtown would like to thank its fellow township companies and surrounding area companies for their assistance with this fire, no injuries were reported and crews were on-scene until 01:30 hours 1/5/14.

Below is a compilation of some of the photos and videos collected from various observers and companies involved. The videos and photos are shared here remain the property of those submitting them and no rights are implied. We thank you for sharing them with our volunteers.

Karl Ross Photography (Facebook) 

Video by Brian Sullivan:

Raw Video from Flourtown FF Greg Fasold:

6ABC News Coverage

Philly Fire News Two Alarm Strip Mall Fire in Flourtown

Rick Rotando Photo and Video:

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Written by Tim Ernst · Categorized: Building Fires, Featured, Videos/Images · Tagged: 2014, Barren Hill, Chinese, Commercial, defensive, Edge Hill, fire, Flourtown, Fort Washington, January, Oreland, pizzeria, Plaza, shops, Spring Mill, strip mall, Wyndmoor

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