| Fire Box - 2302
At 0445 hours on Thursday August 30th, Chester County Fireboard tapped out Station 23 (Avondale) for a hay fire at Kaolin Mushroom Farm on Starr Road in New Garden Township. Chief 23 was first to arrive with a working hay bales and requested Station 22 (West Grove) and Station 24 (Kennett) to be placed on the box.
The size up was a 400' x 200' of hay bales stacked with a working fire in the center and spreading quickly to the other piles of hay. Engine 24-2 with a full crew and Engine 24-6 marked up just minutes after the alert. Engine 24-2 was requested by Command to set up on the east side of the scene and utilize the "roof-top" master deck gun and protect the nearby exposures. Engine 24-6 was requested to join in the tanker shuttle operations.
The use of front end loaders were used to pull the hay bales apart in an effort to try and contain the fire. Units worked on scene for about five and a half hours, until about 1030 hours when 24 units returned into the city. This news story even made it up to Wilkes-Barre on network TV news!
More information can be found at:
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=local&id=5618329 (video)
http://cbs3.com/local/local_story_242083419.html (video)
(Aerial photographs courtesy of WPVI-TV; go to www.6abc.com for more info and pictures) |
