Feb. 2nd - Shortly after 16:00 a frantic person came to the station reporting her infant locked in her running vehicle at Turkey Hill. Squad 23 made the response with four personnel and found that fire services were no longer needed and went availble. Ten minutes after returning from the first incident Squad 23 and Engine 27-2 were dispatched for spill control in the borough. Chief 23 arrived and held the assignment to Rescue 23. As the Rescue went available the pre-alert was announced for the dwelling fire on Main Street. With members still on station the truck and rescue responded immediately with the Deputy establishing command. After the truck crew checked the interior it was determined to be burnt popcorn and command held the assignment to Company 23 for ventilation.

Feb. 1st -Shortly after 18:00 the communications center dispatched the station along with E-671 covering 231 for the unknown type fire in the area of Cloister Dr. After checking the area the fire was unfounded and the box was cleared. As Chief 23 cleared the assignment he witnessed a vehicle roll multple times from 283 into the field and re-directed the Truck and 671 along with Rescue 23 to the accident. Units arrived on the scene to find two patients in the field. Crews started patient care until the arrival of EMS along with hazard control.

Jan. 31st - With driver and pump training well on its way and only a few items to be completed the new 231 should be hitting the street on February 8th.

Welcome to the new East Petersburg Fire Co website. If you are a member of the company, then click the "Login" button and create yourself a user account. All new user accounts must be approved prior to being used. Feel free to browse the site until you get approved. Once approved all members will have the ability to submit articles, and a select few will have the ability to publish those to the site. I will be holding impromptu trainings as time allows this week and next. Patience. Jon and myself have been working on this new site for a while now, and any constructive comments would be appreciated. If you would like to volunteer some of your time to write the code or help in other ways, let one of us know. Our goal is to make this one of the most impressive fire company related sites on the internet. If you are a visitor from another fire company or the community, then just enjoy yourself while you are here and check back often. There will be significantly more to come as we role out upcoming modules.

Enjoy,

Andrew and Jon

Jan. 31st - Since 1910 a longstanding tradition has always been to train to be the best you can be. Over the weekend Firefighter Andrew Katerman and Junior Firefighter Jay Jacunski finished up with the Fireground support module of the Delmar program at the public safety training center. Also with the Junior Firefighters saying they were bored Saturday evening Firefighter Matt Schiender worked them by showing them various ways to remove a downed Firefighter up a stairway.

Photo by Engineer Mike Macciocco

Photo by Engineer Mike Macciocco

                                                           Fireground Support

                                      Junior RIT Training

Jan. 25th. - On this day the current Engine 231 ran its last call which was for spill control in front of the borough office with Chauffer Moyer behind the wheel. Later in the evening as the members gathered for training the engine was officially placed out of service so that hose and equipment could be transferred. With the equipment mounting and radio installation complete along with driver training underway we hopefully plan to place the new 231 in service on February 8th.

At approxamately 8pm the rescue, truck, and squad were dispatched for a single vehicle accident involving a telephone pole and wires down. The rescue was first on scene to find the patients self extricated to a nearby house, and live wires still on the ground. The rescue crew packaged the patient in the house and performed hazard control. The truck and squad perfomed traffic control.

Photos by Jay Jacunzski

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This is just a short video we took of engine 231 with lights and sirens going! Enjoy.

New Engine 231

During the second week of the month the volunteers logged 384 hours of training for this year already. Fourteen volunteers spent 24 hours taking NIMS 300 which is a multi-organization incident class. Along with the volunteers taking the NIMS class, three additional members started their Fire Ground Support class at the Public Safety Training Center. The Membership congratulates the members for completing the NIMS 300 class and the other members starting Mod. B and furthering their knowledge of the fire service.