SATURDAY MORNIN BURN Sunday, June 29, 2008 - Early in the mornin the boys loaded up on the Engine and headed down to the Delco Training center to fine tune their firefighting skills. A good safe day was enjoyed by all and several burns were done through the day.

COMPANY PICNIC Sunday, June 22, 2008 - As a thank you from the company to the members and their families the Company Picnic was held again today at Brandywine Picnic Park. The members and their families gathered together and enjoyed a day of sun and fun! Everyone enjoyed food, drinks, the old head versus youngin softball game where again, the old heads wooped the youngin's. Then a refreshing tubing adventure and hijacking paddle boats and canoe's for an hour until we were ordered back in and they shut the ride down. As usual a very good time was had by all those who came out. Cya next summer!!

FIRE IN THE WALLS Monday, June 16, 2008 - On Monday morning just before 6am Ladder 2 was dispatched on the residential box alarm in Prospect Park in the 600 Block of 11th Ave. Snozzle 8 arrived and had nothing showing from the outside but quickly found smoke and fire in the walls in the rear of the first floor. 08-9B, M. Signora, established command and Ladder 2's crew went to the basement to open up and find the source. Snozzle 8's crew opened up on the first floor and between the crews and a couple cans the fire was quickly under control. Ladder 7's crew assisted with overhaul on the first floor. A fan was placed in service in the front door. Crews cleaned up and went available a short time later.

VAN FIRE Saturday, June 7, 2008 - At 10:10 pm Saturday night, Engine 2 was dispatched to the 500 Block of Lee Road in Norwood for the vehicle fire. Engine 2 arrived and found a van on fire in the driveway with exposure to another vehicle. The trash line was quickly put into service and knocked down the fire and cooled the exposure vehicle. Crews had to then midigate a magnesium fire along with run off of chemicals and paint from the rear of the van. Crews put dirt down to block the sewer drain.

SPRINKLER AND FIRE ALARM TRAINING Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - Tonight a crew traveled to Famco Alarm Systems in Clifton Heights. Tom Neher works for them and invited us down to their new training trailer. We sat through a presentation describing the different sprinkler and alarm systems and the basic's of how they work. Then we went out to the training trailer and had some hands on with system mock ups.

WINNERS OF THE BBQ GRILL Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - The drawing went off on Memorial Day for the BBQ grill fund raiser. The winners were the DeVito family who reside on Mohawk Ave in the town of Norwood. We would like to thank everyone who donated towards the fundraiser and supported your local Volunteers!!

SMOKE IN THE AREA Monday, May 26, 2008 - Around 1900 hours Company 2 and medic 100D were dispatched for smoke investigation in the 200 Block of Welcome Ave in Norwood. Engine and Ladder 2 arrived under the command of B Harley with a smoke condition in the street. Crews found a homeowner burning materials in his backyard and quickly controlled the fire and returned to service. Thanks to Timmy for being an officer in training and providing the picture.

HOUSE WELL OFF IN HOLMES Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - Tuesday afternoon at 3:15 the Ladder and Ambulance were dispatched on the box alarm in Holmes' local for the house fire. As the Ladder hit the street it was upgraded to a working fire adding the Engine for manpower. Ladder 2 arrived with Squrt 43 and nosed in on Side A. 43 Command had the ladder pull the 2 1/2 and start defensive operations due to a very early partial collapse. The ladder pipe was placed in service and Ladder 2 had it's own plug out front. Engine 2 hooked into the plug that Squrt 43 hit and supplied Squrt 43. The bulk of the fire was knocked down using master streams and crews went into overhaul operations. Thanks to Chris Miller and Frank Wesnoski for the pics.

HOUSE FIRE IN PROSPECT Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - Tuesday at 14:30 the box alarm was struck for the 1500 block of Evans Ave in Prospect Park bringing Company 08 (Prospect Park), Ridley Park (07), Ladder 2 (02), and Rescue 48 (Tinicum). Police arrived on scene and had a working fire in the rear on the roof. Snozzle 8 arrived and confirmed a small fire in the rear roof area and went to work with Engine Company operations. Ladder 2 arrived and split the crew and went to the roof and forcing doors and laddered the building. Engine 2 arrived and threw more ground ladder's and stood by in the manpower pool. Crews mopped up and assisted picking up the supply line and went available.

HEATER BACKFIRE Saturday, March 22, 2008 - At 16:30 on Saturday the house box was struck for the 200 Block of Love Lane bringing Company 02, 05 (Glenolden), 08 (Prospect Park), Ladder 43 (Holmes)and Parkside RIT 45. Chief 2 arrived and had nothing showing. A report from the homeowner said it was a oil heater backfire. Engine 2 and 8 arrived at the same time and Chief 2 held those units and returned the balance. Engine 2's crew checked the house and had nothing and secured the heater. Engine 2 and 8 were returned.

TRAGEDY STRIKE DELAWARE COUNTY AGAIN Thursday, March 6, 2008 - For a third time in a year tragedy has struck Delaware County. While operating at a working house Firefighter Nicholas Picozzi, Jr. of Lower Chichester Fire Co. was killed in the Line Of Duty. Crews tried as hard as possible to rescue him and some were injured in that process. We extend our condolences to the Lower Chichester Fire Co. and the Picozzi family in this extremely hard time. We also extend out well wishes to the injured brothers from Green Ridge and praying for a speedy and full recovery.

NEW BUS DELIVERY Monday, March 3, 2008 - The new 2008 Ford 350 Horton Ambulance was delivered today from VCI in Jersey. There are several major changes in the new ambulance. Starting in the cab is new headunit with DVD player, custom designed and simple center console. Moving to the back there are also huge changes... there are now two bench seats, more storage space, the main entrance door was relocated and the doorway from the cab to the rear was eliminated. The lighting package is total LED, compliant Chevron Striping on the rear doors. We elimintated gold leafing and went with red lettering.

CHENOA TAKES THE GOLD!! Monday, February 25, 2008 - Members from the company attended the annual County Fireman's Association Banquet to support Chenoa Reese in her quest to win the County's Junior Firefighter of the Year award. Chenoa has been a member for 2 years and has always worked very hard since day one. She is little in size but huge in heart and we all love her like our little sister. Chenoa has helped recruit new members for the department and works even harder in her personal and family life. Chenoa wants to become a police officer after school and eventually become a detective. We know she will one day get there and we support her every step of the way!

2 NEW EMT'S Friday, February 22, 2008 - There are two more members that were recently certified at EMT's. Shayne Bierman and Tyler MacCrone have been working hard on top of their normal firehouse responsibilities, college, and life to gain their certification. They are already working hard to be signed off to ride the buses as crew members. Congrats boys now the fun starts.

AIRPACKS IN SERVICE AND ON APPARATUS Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - ALL AIRPACKS WERE PLACED IN SERVICE LAST NIGHT ON THE LADDER, ENGINE, AND TAC. IF YOU HAVE NOT DONE ANY OFFICIAL TRAINING YET PLEASE GET WITH ANY OFFICER AND GET THE TRAINING DONE, THERE ARE VERY IMPORTANT THINGS YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE USING THEM.