Reported 1st Due Building Fire

 
By Firefighter Ken Baker
August 9, 2008
 

At 06:37 hrs, County Communications alerted the building fire at the Harrison House Nursing home, in Christiana Borough. Deputy 5-2 (Reimold) arrived at 06:38 hrs with facility staff reporting a clothes dryer on fire. It was quickly determined that employee's had extinguished the blazing mopheads in the dryer, and the assignment was reduced to Engine 5-2-1 and Truck 4-2.


Engine 5-2-1 (Fisher) responded at 6:39 AM with a crew of 5. Engine 5-2-1 arrived onscene and provided ventilation and reset the fire alarm panel. Truck 4-2 crew arrived and checked for extension.

All units cleared the scene by 0700 hrs.
 
Units: Engine 5-2-1. Tanker 5-2-2, Tanker 5-2-1
 
Mutual Aid: Engine 5-1-1, Engine 4-2-2, Truck 4-2, Engine 5-1-2, Engine 26-1 (Chester County), Rescue 28, Tanker 28, Tanker 26, Truck 28
 
The Laundry area. The fire was contained to the far right dryer.
The Laundry area. The fire was contained to the far right dryer.
Chief 4-2 (Kurtz) checking for extensions around the dryer.
Chief 4-2 (Kurtz) checking for extensions around the dryer.
 
Truck 4-2 Crew checking the dryer.
Truck 4-2 Crew checking the dryer.