Last night around 10 pm a car missed part of the turn by The Cow and went through several poles before stopping in front of Franklin Middle School. Thankfully no one was injured. Main Street was closed for an hour or so due to the debris on the road.
Today around lunch time E412 along with many other area units were alerted for a townhouse fire in Glyndon’s area. E412 arrived to a townhouse with fire coming out of the roof. A second alarm was requested due to the amount of fire and exposures. Apparatus from many surrounding stations worked together to put the fire out.
Firefighter / EMT
Gene sustained critical injuries while performing a search on a dwelling fire April 24, 2013. He succumbed to his injures on May 2, 2013 after an 8 day fight. Gene was a 9 year member of our company and was a junior fire fighter for 2 years.
…five years and still missed by all.
Each year E412 and E413 must do a pump test through the county (as all engines). This is part of the National Fire Protection Agency standard to ensure each engine is working to its peak efficiency. Last night E412 was taken up to the pump test center. Next week E413 will go as well.
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On January 21, 1948 our first ambulance was placed in service. It was a 1948 Cadillac Meteor ambulance. The $6,155 ambulance was purchased by the Kiwanis Club of Reisterstown and donated to the Reisterstown Volunteer Fire Company.
The process of purchasing the ambulance began on December 31, 1945 when a $100 deposit was placed on the ambulance. There was a high demand for post war era ambulances because they had not been manufactured since 1942. The delivery was also complicated by post war strikes at GM.
The ambulance was kept at J. Edwin Eline’s garage until construction on our current building was completed later in the year. The ambulance handled 189 calls in 1948.
Santa will be riding the firetrucks between 7p till around 8:30p-9p.
[Santa wants to see everyone and we will make every attempt to get to all these areas but the schedule is dependent on weather and fire calls.]
Tues – December 12th
Wed – December 13th
Thurs – December 14th
Friday – December 15th
Saturday – December 16th
at Trinity Lutheran Church
Saturday December 2 8:30am – 11am
At around 0800hours station 41 was alerted for an MVC with reported entrapment on Route 140 at the carroll county line. Units arrived to find a multiple car Mvc with one occupant confirmed trapped. Crews worked to quickly extricate the patient who was then flown to the hospital by the Maryland State Police Aviation, Trooper 3. Crews operated for approximately an hour before returning to service.
At around 1300 hours E412 was alerted for an apartment fire in the Brookebury community of Reisterstown. Smoke was found coming from a second floor apartment door, E412 stretched a line from E56 and forced entry to find a fire in the living room of one of the apartments. The fire was quickly knocked and all searches were negative. Crews operated for approximately an hour and a half before returning to service.
