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ALWAYS ON THE RUN
Multiple and overlapping calls keep F.D.M.T.
hustling...
(6/6/09) - The hits kept on coming
during an early June Saturday as multiple calls kept F.D.M.T.
units in action for the bulk of the day.
It all started at midnight with a call to
Franklin Court in the Montgomery Glen development for a dwelling
fire, reported to be a hot water heater on fire with smoke in
the basement.
An investigation revealed no significant fire
and the home was quickly secured.
Later in the day 18 was hit out again at 1:00pm
for a vehicle fire at DeKalb Pike and Welsh Road. Arriving
units found no significant incident and turned the operation
over to units from the Upper Gwynedd Fire Company (Station 80)
as it was located on their side of the township boundary line.
Things cranked up about a half hour later when
18 was dispatched for a pedestrian struck on the southbound
lanes of Route 309 near North Wales Road. Responding
units quickly made their way to the parking lot of the
Montgomery Mall to establish a landing zone for a medical
helicopter. A male teenager suffering head trauma and
other injuries was transported.
Flash forward to 5:00pm as 18 gets the call for
a carbon monoxide detector on Tennyson Lane.
  Responding
units arrived quickly along with the Montgomery Township Police
and the Volunteer Medical Corps (Station 345) to investigate and
found no threatening levels of carbon monoxide in the home.
During the call on Tennyson Lane, the tones drop
again. This time, it's a dwelling fire in the Cricklewood
development off of Richardson Road. Initial reports
indicate a clothes dryer on fire inside the home.
Rescue 18 arrived first and found a moderate
smoke condition from the garage and immediately established 18
Command.
Firefighters quickly doused the
flaming dryer and secured the unit outside in the driveway.
A check of the walls inside the laundry room showed no extension
of the fire into the house.
As firefighters brought that
situation under control, the alarm rang again for a fire at the
Avenel Apartment complex on Dekalb Pike. Several units
broke away from the Cricklewood fire to respond to Avenel, and
upon arrival found that the alarm was caused by burnt food in
the kitchen.
It was a tiring but satisyfing day
of work for F.D.M.T. volunteers. Station 18 would like to
thank all of the mutual aid units who assisted throughout the
day including the Montgomery Township Police,
North
Penn Fire Company (Station 62), Volunteer Medical Service
Corps (Station 345), Colmar Fire Company (Station 12), Chalfont
Fire Company (Station 34), and any others who answered the call!
(Photos courtesy of
Fire Police Captain Robert Bailey)
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