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Welcome to the Official Site of the
Washington Township Volunteer Fire Company
Fayette County Station 42
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The new Tanker 42 T shirts are now available! They are Fifteen dollars a piece ranging in sizes from adult small to adult 2XL. If anyone is interested in purchasing a shirt simply contact Dave Kimball at the firehall @ 724-929-4172.
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It has been a very VERY slow few months for the Washington Township Volunteers with most runs being alarm's, medical's and the few structure fire's that have came in ended up being nothing. This has been one of the slowest times in recent years, which ended on June 6 at approx 0215 hours. The call came across as a single motor vehicle accident, with one vehicle into a house. 42 Chief called en route direct as 42 Rescue marked en route with a crew of seven. 42 Chief arrived on scene and found one vehicle over a small embankment unstablized and into a house with one patient with injuries still in the vehicle asking where the passenger was. Since 42 Chief did not see anyone else inside the vehicle he advised 42 Rescue that someone might have been ejected. Upon 42 Rescue's arrival the driver set up lights, as a three man crew started patient care and stabilizing the vehicle, as three other members started a search for a possible ejected patient. After a few minutes of searching it was discovered by Washington Township PD that the passenger fled the scene on foot, at which time all 42 members were now cribbing and stabilizing the vehicle, which was headed by 42 Lt and 42 Captain as 42 Chief assesd the damage to the residence. After the vehicle was stabiized it only took a few minutes to extricate the victim which patient care was handed over to Southwest EMS which they transported the patient to Mon Valley Hospital where the patient was flown by Stat MedEvac 4 to Presby Hospital in Pittsburgh. Once the local towing company arrived and removed the vehicle, 42 Chief,42 Captain and past 42 Asst Chief assesd the house which the D side of the structure was moved approx 6 inches from the impact, and did cause minor damage to the foundation. The house was stablized and all 42 units cleared the scene at approx 0430 hours.
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Forestry presents Basic Wildland Firefighting PA130 at the Washington Township VFC. This class will be Saturday June 20 starting at 8:00am. No charge for attending this class, if you plain on attending you can contact us at 724-929-4172 with the name of your department and the number of firefighters you have attending. Please contact us and let us know by Monday June 15 if you plain on attending. This class is not limited to a specific amount of people, and is open to all fire departments. We hope to see all of you there and are expecting a good turn out.
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June 13, 2009 10:00AM to 3:00PM, there will be six bicycles given away. To enter the contest you must attend the Safety and Awareness day and purchase a ticket for .00. There will also be a chinese auction for many different gifts donated by local businesses. There will be gyros (sold by Fayette City VFC), hot dogs, candy and soda. All proceeds will be donated to CORE (Center for Organ Research & Education). Besides our trucks and equipment on display we will also have Rostraver/ West Newton EMS, Washington Township Policde Department, North Belle Vernon VFC, Belle Vernon VFC, Fayette City VFC, Twin Rivers Tactical Rescue Team, Andy the Ambulance, Porecca Chiropractic, Moon Walk (Blow Up Jump), Smokey the Bear, Stat MedEvac Medical Helicopter, Boy Scouts of America, Tri-County K-9, Bike Safety Rodeo, Washington Township /Fayette City Lions Club, and MUCH MORE! Hope to see you there!
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The Washington Township VFC is holding it's annual parade Friday June 26. The line up will be at 1800 hours at the Marion ElementarySchool, and the parade will start at 1900 hours. Food, drink and entertainment (DJ Bubba Snax) will be directly after the parade. All fire departments are invited to attend, cash awards, prizes will be given out. Come join the fun, we hope to see all of you there.
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Towards the end of a busy 24 hour period the Washington Township Volunteers were toned out at approx 1049 hours for a male who fell down and is now experiencing shortness of breath. This ended up not being the normal everyday medical assist. Upon Squad 42's arrival they made entry into the house and found a male patient that was inside the house in a very compact area with several items around him that made extrication very difficult. Once Southwest EMS arrived on scene they requested another unit to the scene and 42 Chief arrived on scene and requested extra man power to the scene. Chief 42 requested the stokes basket to the scene, and he also requested Station 17 Fayette City to the scene for man power as well. Members from Station 42 and Station 17 worked with the EMS crews to get this male onto the stokes basket all while being treated for his medical problems and transported outside of the residence where he was placed onto the stretcher and loaded into the ambulance and transported. The male however a few days later ended up subcoming to his injuries and past away. Our thoughts and prayers goes out to the family.
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On February 11, 2009 a severe thunder storm rolled into the Mon Valley which brought high winds in the 90 MPH area. The storm arrived in the late afternoon which companies from all over the area started to run multiple calls at once ranging from wires and trees down, to floodings, to transformer explosions. The first call of twelve in a 24 hour period came in at approx 2013 hours for a tree down with wires down and power out in the area. From that time on the volunteers stayed busy running tree downs, wires down, medical assist, and a pyshical rescue. One point Fayette County 911 was over ran with calls and they stopped toning out companies and just started to fax all incidents to the respective stations. The Washington Township Volunteers were able to maintain good man power as they had Brush 42 and Squad 42 staffed with full crews and an additional two to three volunteers at the station for additonal calls if needed. 42 Captain had command for most of the incidents which included the busiest part of the storm directing what crews to go where and handle which calls first. The last call was completed on February 12, at approx 1951 hours.
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On February 7, 2009 at approx 0226 hours Southwest Regional PD was advised of a vehicle accident on Main St in Lower Belle Vernon with a vehicle into a house and that the vehicle was fleeing the scene towards Rt 906 Naomi. Car 752 of the Washington Township PD heard this and sat at the end of Rt 906 and Rt 201 and waited for the vehicle. Car 752 didn't have to wait long as he saw this vehicle at a high rate of speed exit off Rt 906 with out stopping and straight across Rt 201 into a hill side. As Car 752 attempted to block this vehicle in, this vehicle was able to maneuver around Car 752 and even with heavy damage travel back down Rt 906 at which point Car 752 engaged in a vehicle pursuit. This vehicle at one point went onto the embankment and kept on driving through the tree's till it finally sustained enough damage to were it could not operate. Car 752 advised 911 of the final resting spot and advised he had entrapment which brought out the Washington Township VFC along with Station 4 Lower Belle Vernon. Rescue 42 marked en route with 8 volunteers with 42 Chief on board. Rescue 42 arrived on scene with minor entrapment. Rescue 4 was requested to handle traffic control at the Washington Twp, Belle Vernon line. The crew from Station 4 popped the door and the patient was extricated and released to EMS and the Police. Once all the hazards were taken care of all equipment cleared the scene at approx 0338 hours.
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On February 2, 2009 Washington Township welcomed it's new Ambulance provider, Southwest EMS. Southwest EMS signed a one year contract with Washington Township to provide ambulance service to the residents. Their new station is located at the old police station located at the Washington Township Municpal building. The Volunteers at the Washington Township VFC are looking forward to a great working relationship with Southwest EMS. It didn't take long for Southwest to get to work with the volunteers. Approx 12 hours after Southwest started the first shift they along with the volunteers were dispatched to Liberty Ave in Lynnwood for an unknown medical for a report of a male who fell down. Chief 42 arrived on scene and found an elderly male who fell down a flight of steps and was unresponsive with major facial and head trauma. The volunteers along with two rigs from Southwest EMS worked on this male who later succumbed to his injuries.
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On January 11, 2009 at approx 1551 hours the Washington Township VFC was dispatched to a two vehicle accident with possible injuries at Perry Ave and Johnson Hollow. Rescue 42 marked en route with four volunteers at approx 1552 hours. Car 754 arrived on scene and stated he had a two vehicle T-bone type collison vehicles in the road way with five patients which two are pediatric.
The Rescue's crew arrived and started assisting Rostraver West Newton EMS with patient care, and 42 Second Captian arrived on scene and set up command. A medical helicopter was requested which Stat 5 was the nearest with a 12 minute ETA but cancelled due to weather. Crews from Rescue 42 and Squad 42 assisted with patient care and packaging of a total three adults which one refused medical treatment, and two pediatric patients which were transported to a local hospital. After taking care of the hazard's Rescue and Squad 42 returned to service and 42 Second Captain terminated command at 1642 hours.
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