| The morning of Thursday April 10th began early for the Huntingtown Volunteers. At 0445 hours, Chief 6 (Riffe), Chief 6B (Montgomery), Chief 6C (Hayes), Engine 61 (Muholland), and Squad 6 (Hardesty) were alerted to the day-care annex at the Calvert Memorial Hospital in Prince Frederick for smoke in the building. Units arrived to find a burnt circuit board and held the Box to Company 2 and 6 units only.
As the morning progressed, a thick blanket of fog began to drop over the Huntingtown area dropping visibility to less than a few hundred feet. Less than 2 hours and 3 calls after the 1st Box, Chief 6, Chief 6B, Chief 6C, Lieutenant 6 (Thrasher), Squad 6 (Cox, C), Engine 62 (Buckler), and Ambulance 68 (Morgan) were alerted for the reported serious accident at Route 4 and Cox Road. As the call was being dispatched, Chief 6 arrived finding a two-vehicle accident with two patients pinned, in seperate vehicles. The drivers were quickly extricated prior to the arrival of Squad 6 with a haligan bar. Both patients were transported to Calvert Memorial Hospital. With all these crews operating, an additional crew staffed Ambulance 69 and handled a seperate medical.
Between the hours of 0445-0830 hours, the Huntingtown Volunteers had already answered 8 calls for service and at one point staffed 5 pieces of apparatus.
Pictures courtesy of member, Dennis Hook: www.dchookedonphotography.com |
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