News Item: : Snow Storm Drains Man Power
(Category: Misc)
Posted by KimballD
Thursday 11 February 2010 - 15:34:02
In the early afternoon hours on February 5, 2010 a large snow storm came into the Mon Valley Area dropping large amounts of snow. When it was all said and done approx. two feet of snow was laying on the ground. This storm didn't only bring snow; it brought a large amount of calls for the Volunteers at the Washington Township VFC. At the height of the storm the volunteers were running 21 calls per day. The whole area was declared a disaster area and was put under a state of emergency. Power was knocked out to approx 95% of the entire area for days on end. During the snow storm the volunteers ran numerous different types of calls ranging from the most common tree and wires down, to check well being calls, medicals, transformer fires, power lines on fire, electrical fires in residence, chimney fire, search detail, assisting EMS with extricating from residence snowed in, vehicle accidents, carbon monoxide poisoning and a structure fire. Not only did we have enough members to run all the calls we also had enough members to assist in the numerous residents that came to the firehall that was designated a "warming shelter", which later it became a "disaster shelter". The wife's and girlfriends of the members as well as the ladies auxiliary helped out by cooking and making dinner, lunch and breakfast for the volunteers as well as the residents who were staying here. The Washington Township Supervisors also went to D&D Food and got numerous different types of food for the members and the residents as well. The Supervisors also had someone come and cook breakfast and lunch for us. Based on what everyone was facing the members of the Washington Township VFC believe that everyone involved did a fantastic job. From the Road Crews doing what they could to keep up with the snow, the Washington Township PD helping out by finding who needed shelter, and the Township Supervisors for providing food, and space heaters. The WTVFC line officers would also like to say thanks to all the dedicated members of this department which some stayed for two or three days straight to help out.
This news item is from Washington Twp VFC
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