3rd Alarm Brush Fire on Kembo Rd in 11's area.
Ops on Delta, Echo, & Foxtrot
Ops on Delta, Echo, & Foxtrot
3rd Alarm Brush Fire - Anne Arundel
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troymail
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At least the 3rd time this week they've been there..... recall hearing Chief 11 reporting around noon on the initial that he believed he could hold it with the units enroute..... Sounds like the wind spread it across the entire area (sounds like big piles of mulch spreading towards a marshy area)
ESU35 & Annapolis FM's enroute now. Wonder what they found.
1646: Requesting 3 Additional Engines Cold. Minimum Staffing of 8-10
From Twitter:
Kevin Rector @RectorSun · 3m 3 minutes ago
CORRECTION: Spox says brush fire is off Fort Smallwood Rd, which is Pasadena, not Glen Burnie. Explosives unit called bc "ship flare" found.
troymail
Silent Key
Almost 60 straight hours -- Round the clock operations since Noon on Thursday..... Sounds like crews rotating in and out in 3-4 hours shifts.
Update:
Crews are expected to be on scene for 3 more WEEKS.
The rotation is as follows:
0700-1300, 1300-1900, 1900-2200, 2200-0100, 0100-400, 0400-700
1 Unit from each Battalion + a Brush Truck are on each shift.
Crews are expected to be on scene for 3 more WEEKS.
The rotation is as follows:
0700-1300, 1300-1900, 1900-2200, 2200-0100, 0100-400, 0400-700
1 Unit from each Battalion + a Brush Truck are on each shift.
troymail
Silent Key
I wonder who is paying for this.... (hopefully not me - and other taxpayers).
troymail
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After five days, firefighters end 24-hour shifts at Pasadena mulch fire
Fire department to suspend overnight crews at Pasadena mulch fire - capitalgazette.com
Fire department to suspend overnight crews at Pasadena mulch fire - capitalgazette.com
marksmith
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I also heard Chief 11 say he thought they could handle it with units on scene. A half hour later had two engines from station 13 headed that way in a hurry.
This is the first time I have heard the "Chief of the Department" on scene since the mansion fire in Annapolis.
Mark
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This is the first time I have heard the "Chief of the Department" on scene since the mansion fire in Annapolis.
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troymail
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Back out there again today.....
marksmith
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Yeah... only it's not a brush or mulch fire anymore... I forget now what they call it... a community service or whatever... like pumping out a flooded basement.
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marksmith
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That's it. Public Service.
Still a mulch fire so far as I'm concerned. The fact that you have to go back to it day after day to keep it down shouldn't change the classification. Everything the fire dept does is a public service.
Mark
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Still a mulch fire so far as I'm concerned. The fact that you have to go back to it day after day to keep it down shouldn't change the classification. Everything the fire dept does is a public service.
Mark
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If you dispatch it as a working fire it has a much different priority, response (emergency), and call reporting to it.
If you dispatch it as a PSC it's a much safer cold (routine) response and a much less dramatic procedure.
If you know what it is, what the extent of it is, and there's no immediate life or property safety danger, a PSC is a good code to use for it for those reasons. In this case, it really doesn't matter what terminology sounds better, it matters what call priority and risk the terminology brings. You don't want your situation response to be more dangerous than the situation to which you respond. (side note, this is something police have [rightly] gotten in very hot water for over the years, and now I hear burglaries in progress where a hot response isn't authorized because 'the caller can't hear the burglar at the moment')
I see your point, I just think Fire Alarm is making an accurate call on the risk of danger involved in the call and the corresponding response level to assign to it. Of course, if someone's on the phone screaming about a possible extension of the fire to an adjoining warehouse or home, that becomes a very different calculation.
If you dispatch it as a PSC it's a much safer cold (routine) response and a much less dramatic procedure.
If you know what it is, what the extent of it is, and there's no immediate life or property safety danger, a PSC is a good code to use for it for those reasons. In this case, it really doesn't matter what terminology sounds better, it matters what call priority and risk the terminology brings. You don't want your situation response to be more dangerous than the situation to which you respond. (side note, this is something police have [rightly] gotten in very hot water for over the years, and now I hear burglaries in progress where a hot response isn't authorized because 'the caller can't hear the burglar at the moment')
I see your point, I just think Fire Alarm is making an accurate call on the risk of danger involved in the call and the corresponding response level to assign to it. Of course, if someone's on the phone screaming about a possible extension of the fire to an adjoining warehouse or home, that becomes a very different calculation.
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marksmith
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I understand the priority/risk issue.
I guess I was just being a little sarcastic in my comment because they've been running equipment there for over a week. It's actually a good thing that due to the recent rain and reduction in wind that it is now reclassified to a public service call.
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I guess I was just being a little sarcastic in my comment because they've been running equipment there for over a week. It's actually a good thing that due to the recent rain and reduction in wind that it is now reclassified to a public service call.
Mark
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marksmith
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Hey..sometimes I'm not obvious enough in my sarcasm. Can be dangerous in forums. Enjoyed the graphic though.
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