February Recap

Incidents

Crews assist at a structure fire in McCandless.

The Wexford VFC responded to 73 calls in February. 37 calls were fire-based responses and 36 calls were for QRS responses. Notable incidents included four structure fire responses in Cranberry, Marshall, and McCandless. Crews also assisted Marshall with a fatal motor vehicle crash.  Our average response time for emergency incidents was 8 minutes and 11 seconds.  31 members responded to incidents in January.

Here is our incident breakdown by major incident category for February:

Fire alarm- 7
Fire-6
Good intent- 18
Hazardous condition- 2
Rescue & QRS- 36
Service call-4

TOTAL- 73

Training

Members practice using hose lines. It was the first time for some new members.

We have been working hard at training early in the year. There have been new members that recently joined our organization, and they have already started taking entry-level fire training classes at the fire academy. Several other members are working to finish their entry-level training, and a few others are working on vehicle rescue and EMS provider training. In-house training included basic skills including forcible entry and hose line management. Members also worked on radio communications, including how to assess a scene upon arrival and provide a radio report as the first arriving unit. This is a critical skill as the first on-scene report helps paint a picture of what is actually going on at the scene and adjust the response accordingly.