January Recap

Incidents

Crews land an AHN Lifeflight helicopter in Pine park for a critical vehicle crash patient.

We started off the year with 87 calls. 30 calls were fire-based responses and 57 calls were for QRS responses. Notable incidents included chimney fire responses in Pine and Adams Townships and a structure fire response in Cranberry Township. Crews also assisted the Adams Area Fire District with a severe motor vehicle crash that required a medical helicopter landing zone to be set up in Pine Park for one of the patients.  Our average response time for emergency incidents was 7 minutes and 22 seconds. 26 members responded to incidents in January.

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

Fire alarm- 4
Fire-3
Good intent- 13
Hazardous condition- 4
Rescue & QRS- 60
Service call-3

TOTAL- 87