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Wednesday December 7th 2011.
As nightfall began to descend on our area crews were alerted for he
tower and engine 6 to respond for the second alarm assignment for the
working residential Structure fire on SR 106 in Clifford township. While
the fire was being dispatched United 11 was on the phone looking for a
crew for a tree down on sprout road. the tower responded to the fire
with a crew of 5 followed by the engine with 3. 6 more members with the
utility responded to the tree down. the tower and engine were canceled
while responding to the fire. The utility crew took care of 2 large
trees down with the assistance of a GDS crew. as crews were returning to
service he snow was beginning to fall. all units were back in the
hall by 06:00. At 06:45 with a few inches of snow already on the ground
united fire was alerted for an assist to the Boro Police for traffic
control with several vehicle blocking the road on Owego Street headed
out of the boro. United 11 followed by the utility responded with
additional fire police. crews shut down 167 north. while crews were
operating on 167 north we started to receive reports of the same
conditions just south of the boro on SR 29 united 13 and engine2
responded. also the fire police on the north end of 167 we receiving
reports from motorists of large trucks off the road in the North
road in Bridgewater Twp. united 11 requested forest Lake fire police to
assist with this area. The 29 South crew also started receiving reports
of vehicles stuck in the road farter south. south of south Montrose and
the Dimock area. crews operated for the next few hours working
with several tow services and P-Dot to make to roads safe to pass. Once
167 was clear communications advised that SR 2024 in Dimock Twp. was
blocked by a tractor trailer the utility would respond and work with
Dimock twp to take care of this situation. at 11:30 the Utility had just
cleared the final incident on 2024 when united fire was alerted as part
of the second alarm assignment for the Rescue to respond as RIT to
assist Meshoppen on a working residential fire off from Overlook road in
Auburn Twp. the rescue responded with 6. crews arrived and handeld RIT
responsibilities until being released by command. all United units were
back in service by 02:00
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