Newtown Square Fire Company

EMPLOYMENT ANNOUNCEMENT

Monday, 25 January 2010 08:42

Part-Time Firefighter/EMT’s

General Notice: The Newtown Square Fire Company is accepting resumes for Part-time Firefighter / EMT’s to fill weekly 12 hour shifts. Shifts will be based on a Monday-Friday, 6am-6pm schedule. The Newtown Square Fire Company provides fire rescue services to the Townships of Newtown and Willistown responding to approximately 600 calls a year.

Minimum Qualifications: Must be 25 years of age and have High School diploma or GED at time of hire. Applicant must also have

• Pennsylvania Firefighter I and Firefighter II certificates (FF II to be obtained with in one year of employment)

• Current Pennsylvania Emergency Medical Technician Certification

• Current ARC or AHA Basic Life Support Level III Health Care Provider CPR card

• Pump Operations certificate

• Hazardous-Material Operations level certification

• Emergency Vehicle Operations certificate

• Aerial Operations Course (to be obtained with in the one year of employment).

Deadline: Resumes must be received by Friday, February 12, 2010

Contact Information:

Chief Douglas Simpson

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610-256-9523

Helping assure a safe holiday

Monday, 21 December 2009 13:56

Fire prevention is a very important undertaking for the members of the Newtown Square Fire Company. One of the important challenges facing this group of trained and experienced, unpaid professionals is finding ways of motivating the community they protect in the important lesions of preventing fires and accidents.

An unexpected help in this ongoing quest came from a former resident of Newtown Square. During his recent presentation made to members of The Press Club, broadcaster Chris Wheeler was signing copies of his easy-to-read, and entertaining book, “View from the Booth: Four Decades with the Phillies.” During their dialog, Wheeler related to the Newtown Square Fire Company’s representative the background behind a Christmas morning visit by that Fire Company to his youthful Newtown Square home.

Saw Mill Road Accident

Monday, 07 December 2009 00:00

The quiet of a weekend morning was abruptly interrupted on Sunday, December 6 when a passenger vehicle left Saw Mill Road and came to an abrupt stop in the small Thomas Run tributary of the Darby Creek. An approximate 9:15 a.m. dispatch sent fire and police personnel from both Newtown Square and Radnor Townships to the 3300 block of the gently winding road that is shared by the town adjacent communities.

Responding police and fire found a sample of the type of accident that occurs on Saw Mill Road. This was verified when one volunteer commented that over the past approximate decade there has been a collection of similar incidents. The one event remembered by many-seasoned Newtown Square emergency crewmembers occurred only a few feet from this most recent incident. In that accident, a car hit the front of a home with sufficient impact to demolish the building’s front porch.

This incident put the car onto its side, with its front up against a tree. Partial, but undependable stabilization was provided as the vehicle abruptly stopped and was partially balanced upon a rock near the stream. The posture of the car and the inability to safely extract the diver without rescue tools validated the alert message that stated there was a need for extrication.

Fighters are seen beginning the removal of the doors on the exposed side of the off-road vehicle. Also seen are the stabilizing-rescue tools that permit a safe patient stabilization and his removal for further evaluation and his field treatment and hospital transport.

With the extrication completed and the patient enroute to Bryn Mawr Hospital, Newtown Square fire fighters await the removal of the car that ran off Saw Mill Road. This pictured perspective also shows the challenging working area faced by the volunteer firefighter rescuers.

Avoiding underground dangers

Thursday, 03 December 2009 00:00

This is the season when multiple activities prompt various forms of last minute or seasonal activities. These tasks often mean digging a hole or “planting” some form of seasonal support. If any of these activities become a project, there is one safety step that must first be undertaken. This requirement should always be the first step in any project.

Anyone hiring a craftsman to do any type of job that requires any amount of digging may be told that the job must wait until “One Call” is contacted. This pre-job contact will provide a series of paths of underground utilities. In describing this valued safety service, Newtown Square Fire Chief stressed, “The goal of this call is to prevent a fire, explosion, or a loss of heat, electricity, or cable television.”

Act promptly and wisely

Wednesday, 02 December 2009 00:00

From time to time, there will be news-making stories telling of an explosion or fire that demolished a home or business. The seriousness of this news takes on a new impact when there is the added impact from a death. While events of this nature do not always involve natural gas, the Newtown Square Fire Company is a partner national fire safety organizations and the nation’s natural gas industry in asking for citizen help.

Thanks to an added ingredient in the nation’s natural gas supply, the public can receive advanced notice should there be natural gas danger. This smell is a wise first warning. Newtown Square Fire Chief Doug Everlof stresses, “Never ignore this easily recognized aroma. Act at once.”

Brookside Fire

Friday, 30 October 2009 12:28

An early Wednesday morning fire became an unusual collection of events and activities. During this October 28 activity, the type of discovery of a potential problem and the resulting dispatch to Newtown Square firefighter became an anxious mystery.

Firefighters stress that any dispatch reporting, “smoke in the vicinity” is one of these concern-generating reports. Calls of this nature traditionally are either a brush or rubbish fire or an unnoticed fire of a dangerous nature. Deputy Chief Doug Simpson volunteered that this recent night fire dispatch was one of the dreaded reports that only provided vague data.

The 4:09 a.m. Wednesday morning dispatch awakened the local volunteers with the message for an investigation of the source of smoke “in the area of West Chester Pike and North Newtown Street Road. In addition to the vaguely described nature, the location is near both the Newtown Square Fire Company and a collection of commercial establishments.

During his response to the local fire station, Engine Captain Mike Kenny made radio contact with Newtown Township police. Using this secondary radio frequency, Kenny learned that there was smoke near the reported area, but this smoke was mixing with the fog that was blanketing much of the region.

Police officer and also a Newtown Square Fire Company Ladder Captain Todd Welch added that the type of smoke was not that of a chimney fire. Fellow fire captain Kenny quizzed the Delaware County Fire Board about any possible large fires in neighboring communities.

There were no current fires that could have contributed to this unusual blanketing of smoke.

The search for the source of this smoke continued. Additional dialog between the Township police and local fire officers unearthed the news that the concentration of smoke was heaviest in the Lower Saint Albans area. The specific location was found by an assisting Marple Township Police patrol and simultaneously validated through a call made to the Delaware County 9 1 1 Center by a neighbor of a burning property. The refined address within 100 block of Brookside Road was aired to the responding fire apparatus.

Photo by Sergeant Brian McNeill of the Newtown Township Police

As the fire fighting effort at the ranch type home in the 100 block of Brookside Road continues, the welcomed sight of steam replaced the fierce fire that initially greeted Newtown Square and assisting firefighters. -Newtown Square FireFoto/Madden

Do it now

Saturday, 24 October 2009 00:00

When shopping for either normal home items or to possibly replenish some of the already consumed Halloween candy, there is one very important addition to the seasonal shopping list. The Newtown Square Fire Company reminds residents and businesses that the time to change clocks from Daylight Savings Time to Standard Time is approaching.

Chief Doug Everlof suggested not waiting until “just before Sunday, November 1, the time for the seasonal time change. He added, “Buy the batteries for the Smoke Detectors NOW. Also, please set aside some time to remove any dust that has been captured with the cage-like construction of the Smoke Detectors.

The purchase of a battery is such and important element in family safety. Yet, far too often, these small, power sources are forgotten.

Chief Everlof’s reminder added, “Smoke Detectors can only work when they are maintained through simple steps of cleanliness and a fresh battery. Do your own part in assuring home safety.”

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Run Statistics

	Calls
January	59
February	42
March	50
April	41
May	44
June	41
July	61
August	49
September	46
October	52
November	43
December	54
2009 Total	582
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