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Total Calls
  • 2009 - 65
  • January - 10
  • February - 9
  • March - 6
  • April - 9
  • May - 7
  • June - 8
  • July - 3
  • August - 3
  • September - 3
  • October - 7
  • November - 0
    2009:
  • Engine 216 - 56
  • Squad 216 - 4
  • Tanker 216 - 21
  • Utility 216 - 14
  • 2008: 71
  • January - 6
  • February - 11
  • March - 7
  • April - 8
  • May - 5
  • June - 4
  • July - 5
  • August - 8
  • September - 2
  • October - 4
  • November - 9
  • December - 2
  • 2008:
  • Engine 216 - 59
  • Tanker 216 - 24
  • Utility 216 - 25
  • 2007: 72
  • 2006: 67
  • 2005: 62
  • November 2009
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    Members List:

    Webmaster:
    Jesse Shutt
    President:
    Robin Urich
    Vice President:
    Jessica Maiden
    Secretary:
    Jesse Shutt
    Treasurer:
    David Faust
    Trustees:
    LeeAnn Bechtel
    Katina Heim
    Lonny Lenker
    Chief 216:
    Raymond Urich, Jr. (FFI)
    Chief 216-1:
    Robert Stoneroad (FFI)
    Chief 216-2:
    David Faust
    Captain 216:
    Jason Faust
    Lt. 216:
    Troy Hoffman (FFI)
    Photographer:
    William Bailey
    Firefighters:
    LeeAnn Bechtel
    Victoria Bunger
    Keith Casey
    Michelle Casey
    Paul Enders, III (FFI)
    Kevin Eshleman
    Matthew Faust
    Bruce Harman
    Kevin Johnston, Jr.
    Holly Landvater (First Responder)
    Lyle Lenker
    Lonny Lenker (FFI)
    Adam Maiden
    Jason Schoffstall
    Raymond Schreiber
    Andrew Snyder
    Gary Stoneroad
    Kevin Urich
    Robin Urich
    Firefighter/EMT's:
    Jessica Enders (FFI)
    David Faust
    Jesse Shutt (FFI)
    Donald Shutt, Jr.
    Junior Firefighters:
    Aren Faust
    Kenny Lesher, Jr.
    Fire Police Captain:
    Jean Bower
    Fire Police 1st Lt.:
    Robin Urich
    Fire Police 2nd Lt.:
    Michelle Casey
    Fire Police:
    Robert Browning
    Lavonne Browning
    Martha Gruver
    Katina Heim
    Jessica Johnston
    Holly Landvater
    Jessica Maiden
    Michelle Myers
    Jason Schoffstall
    Social Members:
    Jeff Bunger
    Carol Bunger
    Reba Gruver
    Tandee Hoffman
    Paul Lebo
    Tracy Ritter
    Barbara Snyder
    Helen Zinn

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    LAST DAY OF BASIC VEHICLE RESCUE SERIES
  • On Sunday, November 1st, 2009, students made another trip to Station 216 for the final day of the Basic Vehicle Rescue Series, at the Technican Level. After breakfast was provided, a short discussion was held in the social hall and then students got geared up and headed down to the lower lot for the hands on portion of the day. First the various instructors went over the different power tools, hydraulic tools and other tools carried on Rescue 37, Engine 20, and Squad 216. The class then split into four groups and practiced removing doors, posts, roofs, access through the truck, trenching the roof, floor flips and dash lifts, along with all the other skills obtained in the previous two classes on cars that were on all four wheels. The class then broke for lunch. After lunch, students went back down to the lower lot to repeat the same skills from the morning, but with vehicles placed on their sides and roof's. After this was done, all the equipment was put back on the proper apparatus, and then lead instructor Eric Rickenbach talked about the final scenario that had been set up at Second Assistant Chief David Faust's farm. With Chief 216 setting off the house siren, students loaded up in Squad 216, Engine 20 and Rescue 37 and headed over to the farm. Once at the farm, studnets were presented with a 4 vehicle accident, with one vehicle on it's roof, one vehicle on it's side, and two vehicles on all four wheels, with one still running. Students went to work using all the skills they learned in the series to extricate the 5 patients from the 4 vehicles. The officers and members of the Fisherville Volunteer Fire Company No. 1 hopes that everyone that took the series took a lot of useful information with them. A special thanks to Millersburg Fire Company for brining Engine 20 and Rescue Fire Company of Susquehanna Township, for brining Rescue 37 on Sunday.


    Lieutenant 216 Troy Hoffman uses a hydraulic spreader to open a door


    Lieutenant 216 Troy Hoffman and Firefighter Victoria Bunger use a spreader to do a door roll


    Firefighter Victoria Bunger uses an air chisel on a truck lid


    A demonstration of a floor flip


    Firefighter LeeAnn Bechtel, Firefighter Victoria Bunger and Firefighter/EMT Donald Shutt, Jr., work on setting up a strut on a vehicle on it's side


    Firefighter/EMT Jesse Shutt talks to the inside rescuers during the final scenario


    Students work on extricating the patient from the car on it's roof


    Students work to roof a vehicle


    Students remove the roof from a vehicle


    Students work to extricate the driver of the van


    TECHNICAN LEVEL OF BASIC VEHICLE RESCUE
  • On Saturday, October 31st, 2009, students again made the trip to Station 216 for the last level of the Basic Vehicle Rescue Course which is Technican. Today consisted of lectures on the various different power tools that can be utilized on vehicles. After the lecture was over, students went outside for an air bag (rescue air bag) demonstration using air bags from the Millersburg Fire Company.


    Eric goes over the air bag system


    Using the air bag system along with box cribs


    OPERATIONS LEVEL CONTINUES
  • On Sunday, October 18th, 2009, students came back to the fire company grounds to complete the second day of the Operations Level of the Basic Vehicle Rescue Series. The morning started out with a review of the different knots that can be used during vehicle rescue. Class then moved down into the fire station and Eric went over the various hand tools that are usually carried on a rescue. The class then broke into 3 groups and moved outside to work on the vehicles. Students went over the various ways to remove the doors on a vehicle using hand tools only. The instructors then set off a driver's side airbag in a vehicle as a demonstration. The class then broke for lunch. After lunch was over class resumed with students working on removing the roof from the vehicle using hack saws. Students then went over some different extrication techniques from the vehicles, including the verticle extrication. The instructors then set off the passenger's side airbag in a vehicle as another demonstration. After class was done outside, it moved back into the social hall and the final test was taken. Special thanks to Halifax Fire Department, and Rescue Fire Company of Susquehanna Township for brinning their rescues up to the class. Students will return in 2 weeks to take the technican level of the vehicle rescue series. Please scroll down for a video of airbags deloying in a vehicle.


    Instructor Chad goes oves knots


    Instructor Eric talks about airbags


    Instructor Brad talks to Firefighter LeeAnn Bechtel about using the high lift jack on the driver's side door


    Firefighter/EMT Donald Shutt, Jr., works with a socket set to remove the hinge bolts


    Students from Elizabethville and Londonderry use a flat head axe and a hooligan bar to cut the windshiled


    Firefighter LeeAnn Becthel uses a hack saw to saw through the "C" Post on the vehicle


    Students work on a verticle extrication


    NEXT LEVEL OF BASIC VEHICLE RESCUE
  • On Saturday, October 17th, 2009 all the students that took the Basic Vehicle Rescue Awareness Level Class came back to Company 216 to take the Operations Level of the Vehicle Rescue Series. Today was all lecture regarding the use of hand tools to gain access into vehicle. Tomorrow students will go outside and put these learned skill to use.
    VEHICLE RESCUE SERIES CONTINUES
  • On Sunday, October 4th, 2009 students came back to the fire hall to complete the second day of the Awareness Level of the course. Eric was back with additional instructors Chad, John and Irwin. The morning started orr with a lecture on stabilization. The students then moved outside to the lower lot to do hands on work on how to do proper stabilization on four different types of possible accidents the students might come upon. This included a pick-up truck on all four wheels, a car on it's side, a car on it's roof and a car on the hood of another car. The group then took a break for lunch and before going back out for the afternoon session, our beloved instructor Eric Rickenbach was given a John Deere Birthday Card and Birthday cake to celebrate his birthday which is this Wednesday. The students then went back outside to finish up the skill stations and Eric showed different compoents of various vehicles that the students may encounter. A test finished up the day for the students. A special thanks to the Reliance Hose Company No. 1 of Elizabethville for bringing there rescue down to the class to be used. The Operations Level of the course will be held in 2 weeks.


    Lt. 216 Troy Hoffman works on setting up a rescue strut on a vehicle on it's roof


    The use of cribbing, rescue struts and come alongs are shown in the stabilization of the car on the hood of another car


    Students from Elizabethville and Millersburg work on setting up rescue struts and a picket system for the car on it's side


    Looking down towards the lower lot


    Eric shows and talks about a seatbelt pretensioner


    HAPPY BIRTHDAY ERIC!!!!


    VHEICLE RESCUE SERIES STARTS
  • On Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 we started the Basic Vehicle Rescue Series at the fire house with the Awareness Level Class. Members from the company, along with members from Elizabethville, Halifax, Millersburg, Rescue of Susquehanna Township and Londonderry Township Fire Companies sat through a full day of classroom lecturing from Eric Rickenbach who is the main instructor for this whole series. Tomorrow the students will go through practical work outside with various donated vehicles. The series will continue with the Operation Level portion on October 17th and 18th, and the Technican Level portion on October 31st, November 1st. This course is designed to teach the students to perform recsue operations on basic passenger vehicles.


    Instructor Eric Rickenbach talked to the class


    PIPELINE TRAINING
  • On Wednesday, August 26th, 2009, members headed down to the Holiday Inn East in Swatara Township to attend a pipeline awarness class. This is a annual class that is put on by various pipelines for local emergency responders and contractos to educate them on the dangers of pipelines and what precautions to take when digging around them and how to respond to pipeline emergencies.
    SQUAD OVERVIEW TRAINING
  • On Monday, August 10th, 2009, members met at the fire station to go over Squad 216, the equipment on the Squad and where it is located at.
    DUMP SITE AND FIVE INCH TRAINING
  • On Sunday, June 7th, 2009, members took the Engine and Tanker up to the Enders-Fisherville Elementary School to do dump site and five inch training. Members took turns operating the pump on both the Engine and Tanker, using the deck gun on the Engine, and repacking the five inch.


    Tanker 216 pumps to Engine 216 while Firefighter Victoria Bunger and Firefighter LeeAnn Bechtel work the deck gun on top of the Engine


    Captain Jason Faust shows Junior Firefighter Aren Faust how to operate the dump valve on Tanker 216


    Members start to repack the five inch hose onto the Engine. Shown in the picture are from left to right: Firefighter Jason Schoffstall, Firefighter LeeAnn Bechtel, Firefighter Raymond Scheriber, and Firefighter Keith Casey


    Members still repacking fire inch hose onto the Engine. Lt. Troy Hoffman is shown handing the hose up to Chief 216-2 David Faust and Firefighter Matthew Faust


    Members shown after training is over. Shown in the picture from left to right is:
    On the Tailboard: Lt. Troy Hoffman
    Back Row: Chief 216 Raymond Urich, Jr., Firefighter LeeAnn Bechtel, Chief 216-2 David Faust, Firefighter Matthew Faust, Junior Firefighter Kenneth Lesher, Jr., Firefighter Keith Casey, Firefighter/Fire Police Jason Schoffstall, Firefighter Raymond Scheriber, Firefighter Lyle Lenker, and Firefighter Lonny Lenker
    Front Row: Firefighter/Fire Police Holly Landvater, and Firefighter Victoria Bunger


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