January 2010

Vehicle Fire

Two services, Two jobs, One night!!

January 14th 2011 - At 2130, as the crew was finishing cleaning up from a late dinner, Squad 49 was alerted for the single car accident with one victim trapped at 7010 Cherry Lane and responded with six volunteers. Once on scene, Squad 49 found one male trapped in the front passengers seat of the vehicle. The volunteers went to work, completing stabilization and extricating the victim in under ten minutes.

At 2328, while winding down with a movie, the tones struck for 9700 Washington blvd (Howard County) for the "dryer fire" in the Hotel. First arriving units reported smoke showing. Engine 49 arrived on scene to find heavy fire from a storage room and advanced the initial attack line to the fire. The bulk of the fire was knocked within 5 minutes, but due to heavy smoke conditions on the upper floors of the hotel, the second alarm was sounded and soon released after finding no fire extension to those floors. The fire was contained to a storage room, bathroom, and back office of the hotel. All occupants remained unharmed and were relocated to a nearby hotel.

LVRS Announces Results of Annual Elections

Operational

Administrative

Chief: Mark Arsenault
Deputy Chief: Rafael Gibson
Assistant Chief: Rich Takacs

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1st Captain: Clyde Williams
2nd Captain: Mike Haggerty
3rd Captain: Chris Ruehl
4th Captain: John Howe

1st Lieutenant: Edmund Kalie

Sergeant: Jessie Ruehl

Mark Arsenault, President
Pam doCarmo, Treasurer
Dawn Nakroshis, Board Secretary
Sherrie Zabriski, Recording Secretary
Monica Hendricks ,Corresponding Secretary

Board of Directors

Richard Sien , Chair
Mike McNeil, Vice Chair
Michelle Arsenault
Ross Nelson
Mark Arsenault, President

LVRS conducts multiple Ice Rescue classes for
Station Personnel and Surrounding Area

Beginning on Sunday, January 9th, and continuing through mid-February (ice dependent), LVRS is conducting Surface Ice Rescue classes for station personnel, and those of surrounding stations and departments. On January 9th, about 15 personnel completed the classroom training and preparation, and then ventured out onto a local pond to chop holes into the ice and simulate ice rescue scenarios. Additional classes have already also been held throughout the county, and in neighboring jurisdictions, as departments seek to ensure that they have the proper training to be ready in the event an ice rescue emergency occurs in their area.

Recent temperatures have made conditions very favorable for the formation of ice, but as even properly prepared rescuers found out, the ice conditions are often not strong enough to support an individual, so all citizens are strongly cautioned to stay off any neighborhood frozen waterbodies at all times. While personnel are trained, equipped, and ready to respond if an emergency should occur, they hope to never have to use the skills except for training purposes.

Two of the recent classes were even covered by local media, which increases the outreach of the safety and preparedness message for citizens, while gaining exposure for LVRS as a leader in water rescue training and response.