I specifically want to apologize for the delay in updates, I have been away at training with limited time to gather all the information and put it out there. SO! Without any further delay here is what is currently going on with the PA Fire Program:
Both Keystone and Liberty crews are home, while Independence is on assignment at the Smith River Complex in California. Two Type 6 Engines are currently on assignment in Texas.
Now, we have some photos as well as a little short storytime! Engine 603 was able to assist in saving a house from a wildfire! Straight from the crew:
"At 1430 on 8/25 a local volunteer fire department from Woodville was toned out to a woods fire on county road 3065 off Highway 69. The fire was reported at 5 acres burning in a 5-year-old plantation. Soon after the task force, we were dispatched to the fire. We showed up, along with two D5 dozers with plows, in 603. The initial attack for us was a grass fire pushing towards some structures. We knocked that down along with another brush truck from Woodville VFD. After that one of our dozers was requested for a farm-to-market structure on road 3120. We could see the fire pushing towards that structure from the field we were in so we went and tied on with our dozer and with another volunteer brush truck and a volunteer pumper truck (which is an engine with 1000 gallons and deck gun) we were able to assist in knocking down the fire as it approached the structure and moved through his yard. Yeah, we didn’t save the day alone. But definitely contributed to the effort. But the crew did a phenomenal job on that fire. We had several assignments over a 2-3 hour period and then continued with mop up till 2200 that evening."
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