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Join us on April 6th at our Station 1 location for our Spring Open House! This is a great opportunity to learn about our upcoming Summer Youth Fire Camp and a little bit of who we are and what we do!
Use caution in New Holland this morning as several blocks of Route 23 are closed due to this incident.
Fire Police are on scene assisting with Traffic Control around the incident.
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Eric Spirito
Yeah, when I went through at 6:45am, I notice it looked your someone went and scrapped garbage which was a lot of cardboard into Stan Graybill Auto Service's driveway. I thought that looked strange.
How was this caused? Was the back of the truck raised by mistake?
There is a ton of cardboard in the street at S. Custer and Franklin.
Yeah i took this photo this morning
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Kerry W. Davis probably never operated one of these huh?
Thank you to The Shopping News of Lancaster County for the article and highlighting how we help the community! Read below!
Hempfield (Co. 69) was sent to the Black Knight Tavern for an automatic fire alarm around 4am, the assignment was quickly upgraded to a building fire. Initial arriving units encountered fire on all floors of the structure. Command requested a 2nd alarm then 3rd alarm, bringing units from all across central and north western Lancaster Co.
Truck 39 was dispatched for a cover assignment to station 69 while units continued operating at the fire.
While en route to the station transfer, command 69 requested Truck 39 to scene. Arriving this late into an incident can prove challenging for apparatus positioning. Truck 39 accessed side “A” via a driveway across the road and utilized the onboard hose ramps to cross a charged 5” to get positioning.
Once setup, Truck 39 operated with Truck 75 ( Fire Department Mount Joy) and Truck 67 (Rohrerstown Fire Company) checking for fire extension and hot spots in the roof and attic areas.
Truck 39 operated on scene for approximately 2 hours before being released by command.
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Thank you for your service.
Koni Hench use of hose ramps!
Yesterday, members of GSFR remembered Former Assistant Chief Roy Mellinger after passing away last week. Roy served as Fire Chief for Blue Ball Fire Company and Assistant Chief for GSFR for over 50 years. We thank Roy for his dedicated service and keep his family in our thoughts and prayers.
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So sorry for your loss; great man.
RIP🙏
He was a great man sending my prayers to his family
Great way to honor a great man.
Roy was a great man and a good friend RIP Chief
Thanks everyone for the warm thoughts and prayers.... Much appreciated.... Can't thank GSFR enough for an awesome service.... Thank you so much to all involved....
My Condolences to the family and my brothers and sisters of the Garden Spot Fire Rescue I didn’t know of his passing.
Prayers for his family!!
My thoughts are with his family....I will always have memories of growing up across the street and the fun times in the neighborhood.
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Rest in Peace Chief.
RIP Chief
Prayers
It takes just a few minutes and can be the reason we saved your life or property! Help your neighbor if you can. Let’s make sure all hydrants are cleared immediately.
We ask our members to hook up a hydrant in under two minutes. This gives us the water supply in under four minutes - the average time to empty the tanks on one of our engines.
Imagine waiting for five minutes because the firefighters are clearing hydrants instead of doing their job - helping you!
Let’s step up and get them cleared as a community!
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**** ATTENTION NEW HOLLAND RESIDENTS & BUSINESSES ****
Help us Help you!!
PLEASE CLEAR YOUR NEAREST HYDRANT!!
Our VOLUNTEERS have staffed 3 fire stations for 48 hours, giving 832 Manhours to ensure a timely response to any emergencies due to road conditions.
With a few minutes of your time to clear one hydrant will prevent our volunteers from having to spend hours of their day off again clearing 100’s of hydrants.
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Thanks to all the volunteers who manned the stations. We appreciate your time and dedication.
We have received some inquiries and remarks about the wood and cribbing carried on Rescue 39 since the photos appeared online of the recent wreck assisting Honey Brook.
Below is the cribbing & wood compliment carried on board Rescue 39.
180 - 22” 4x4’s
24 - 22” 6x6’s
8 - Step Chock’s
55 - 22” 2x6’s
9 - 48” 8x8’s
6 - 1/2” 4’x8’ ground pads
6 - 1” 4’x8’ trench panels
4 - 10’ 4x4’s
4 - 10’ 2x4’s
2 - 10’ 2x6’s
4 - 10’ 2x8’s
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Alex Scott
Impressive! We are blessed to have volunteers with the knowledge and dedication to protect and rescue us. Thank you so much!
What do you use as strong backs for the trench panels?
know your first due area
That’s an awesome Setup love seeing that much cribbing
Probably one of a few that still carries that much cribbing. Everyone is going to struts and jacks. Keep up the good work!!
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Last evening, units from GSFR and EMS were dispatched to New Holland Rd for an injury crash, upon response, the assignment was upgraded with reports of one person trapped.
Units arrived to find a vehicle approximately 200’ into a field that had rolled at least once, landing upright with one subject still inside.
Crews carried equipment through the field and coordinated with EMS on an extrication plan. The driver side doors and “B” post were removed for access.
Units cleared the scene and spent time sorting and cleaning up equipment from operating in the field.
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Would love to know exactly where this took place on New Holland Road
Just south of Eastern School Rd as you start up the hill.
Rescue 39 was requested as the 2nd due Rescue by Honey Brook (Chester sta. 33) to assist their crews with an accident with entrapment on Rt. 10 south of Honey Brook Borough.
Units from 33 arrived to find a dump truck pulling a trailer with a construction lift chained to the trailer. The trailer and lift had overturned onto a pickup truck.
Rescue 39 and Squad 39-1 arrived and sent all of the large cribbing on board up to the scene. Crews from 33 & 39 worked with the Heavy wrecker crews on scene to secure and stabilize the construction lift on top of the pickup. Once stabilized and out of the way crews continued extrication and disassembly of the lift to gain access.
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Paul Amoriello
Jonathan Kibe Keegan Toot
Trevor Walls Chris Hockenberry
Aaron Thoma
Was anyone hurt?
Prayers for all.
Wow! Prayers for all involved.
Solid work
Nice work
Great work guys. Don't hesitate to reach out if we could be of assistance. We do training specifically in this area of rescue...we did some classes just down the street from you this past fall (and I was actually in your town just 2 weeks ago). I would love to recreate your incident as a rescue scenario. Congrats on a successful operation. Mike from MATR
Fantastic Job to tg h ed Crews involved.
Excellent work
Thanks for your help. Great work by all.
Prayers
Sending prayers for all
David Reeves another view
Great work
Wendell Troyer
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With the current state of our Country, do you really think this is appropriate to be raffling off???!!!
Last night, Truck 39 was dispatched to assist Gap Fire Co. (Co. 42) with a reported building fire.
Units from Gap were dispatched for an automatic fire alarm and arrived to find smoke showing from a commercial structure and upgraded the assignment to a building fire.
Crews found a fire in a wall extending to the roof area. The sprinkler system activated containing the fire. Units remained on scene for an extended period of time for overhaul and ventilation of the structure.
