Saturday, May 14, 2011
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Boys from Beltsville.
April, 01, 2011 - Just Before 10:00 PM/ 22:00 Hrs. Beltsville Truck 831 Responded With 3 To Report Of A Apartment Fire In 10 Morris Drive In Laurel. Units Arrived On Scene To Have A Fire Coming Out Of A Apartment Window. A Second Alarm Was Dispatched But Staged For The Most Part And The Fire Was Extinguished. Prince George's County Fire/EMS Department (PGFD) Citizen Service Unit (CSU) Says "That 29 Adults, 19 Children, 2 Infants And 2 Infants Were Displaced Because Of This Fire". The American Red Cross Is Also Helping The Families Displaced In This Fire.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Friday, March 4, 2011
Beltsville Contributes To One Of The Busiest Days In PGFD's History
Feb 19 - 06:00 hrs 8400 block of Potomac Avenue. The first major call that they was called out was for a house fire in College Park. The housed was being used by University Of Maryland, College Park students. The house was fully involved meaning every single part of the house was on fire. Units cleared around 08:30 hrs from this house fire.
Around 11:30 hrs Van Dussen Road in the area of I-95 a 30 foot mulch pile caught fire and due to high winds the fire spreaded more than 1 mile causing over 1 million dollars in damage. The reason the firefighters took so much time to put out the fire was because the fire kept moving towards their direction. This brush fire was 15 acres and was a 2 alarm hazmat box. This also caused I-95 to be shut down for about 4 hours.
At 13:56 hrs, Beltsville Truck 831 was dispatch to the Laurel Mall, 14700 Baltimore Avenue. For a fire in the Burlington Coat Factory this fire was also a 2 alarm box. Units cleared later.
Mutual Aid was needed from these following County's : St Mary's County MD, Calvert County MD, Charles County MD, Anne Arundel County MD, Montgomery County MD, Baltimore city MD, Arlington County VA, Alexandria City, Fairfax County VA, Washington DC, Carroll County MD, Caroline County MD, Queen Anne County MD, Andrews Air Force Base, BWI Airport, and Natural resources. All Prince George's County Firefighters were called back to duty due to multiple other house fires around the county. The last time all Firefighters were all called back to duty was Sept.11th.2001 and thats kinda obvious why. The Prince George's County Public Safety Communications handled 821 calls, an average day would be 350 calls a day, and thats just the Fire Department side of the Public Safety.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Boys from Beltsville.
Saturday, February,19th,2011 : Around 12 noon units in the area of Laurel - Beltsville for brush fire. Units got on scene to find mulch on fire, soon the fire moved all over the place like a chicken with its head cut off. The Van Dussen Rd command requested a second alarm. From there the fire stretched atleast a mile. The Van Dussen Rd command stretch units along the fire to help extinguish the brush fire. There were more than 3 in the Laurel area. A 3 alarm working fire in 25's (Clinton) area with more than 5 houses destroyed, A fully involved house fire in 12's (College Park), the 2 alarm brush in 49's (Laurel) area, many other brush fires, and regular every day calls made it the one of the busiest days in Price George's County Fire Department's history
Friday, February 11, 2011
Boys from Beltsville.
Just after 00:30 hrs Engine 831 was alerted to a building where a Automatic Fire Alarm was being received to communications. So communications dispatched it, about 4 minutes later Engine 831 arrived on scene and acknowledged that there was smoke coming from the building. Engine 831 wanted to start the box, sending units from around the 6th battalion to the location (Branchville, Laurel, Burtonsville area). This just reminds you a Fire Alarm can save lives, and save property.
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