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Around 1 am Saturday March 23rd, the company was dispatched to assist Talleyville (NCC 25) on a residential structure fire. Engine & Truck 66 both made the response. Squad 25 arrived as the first due engine with fire showing from the D side of the residence. Engine 66 arrived as the third due engine, & initiated a split-lay dropping 550 feet of 5-inch supply line and stretching a hoseline to the rear of the residence. Engine 16 (Elsmere) completed Engine 66’s lay. Engine & Truck 66 were committed for an hour. Photo credits to the original photographers.... (Full Story & Photos)

Just before Friday 1 pm Friday, March 22nd the company was dispatched to the area of Naamans Creek Road & Ashbrooke Avenue for a motor vehicle accident. Squad 66 made the response and arrived to find a three-vehicle accident & no entrapment. MICU 140 (Upper Chichester EMS) transported one patient. Thank you to assisting fire police units.

Around 8:30 pm the company was dispatched to assist Concordville (59) on a commercial inside gas leak. Engine 66 made the response. The assignment was reduced to Concordville units & Engine 66 returned.

Just after 10:30 pm Engine 66 made the response to assist Upper Chichester (10) on an apartment fire. Engine 66 arrived with the third due engine assignment. ... (Full Story & Photos)

Thursday evening March 21st the company was dispatched as part of a mutual aid assignment to assist Upper Chichester (10) on a building fire. Squad & Truck 66 both made the response. Engine 10 arrived on the scene as the first due engine. Squad 66 arrived as the second due engine & Truck 66 arrived as the first due special service. A discarded cigarette ignited a mulch bed fire in the front yard & began to extend inside the residence. The fire was extinguished & there was no further extension. Bethel units were available within 45 minutes.

Upon clearing the Upper Chichester call crews headed to the Maris Grove senior living community located in Concord Township for a pre-plan presentation & ... (Full Story & Photos)

Tuesday evening March 19th the company attended a pre-plan presentation and walk-through of the Colony Apartments located in the Brandywine Hundred Fire Company No.1 (NCC 11) local. Attendees received a tour of the building & simulated using a pre-connect hoseline from the sidewalk to an upper floor. Thank you to Brandywine Hundred for the invite & to the Colony Apartments residents for their hospitality.

While attending the training the company & mutual aid departments were dispatched to Highland Drive in Bethel Township for a building fire. Units arrived to find an extinguished fire on the exterior of the residence and checked for extension. There was no extension and units were available ... (Full Story & Photos)

Thursday evening members continued engine company operations training with more work on stretching, advancing & repacking hoselines.... (Full Story & Photos)