On Friday June 7th, 2013 while members were working BINGO, Box Alarm 1-5 rang out for the Westside of Frederick City for the reports of a Townhouse on fire with entrapmant. First arriving Chief-3(Dorsey) found a middle of the group townhouse with smoke showing Side-A confirming reports of entrapment, requesting the RID.
As units began to work and conditions began to worsen and trouble was had locating the seat of the fire based on conditions in the home. Command (Chief Dorsey) requested a fire task force at the same time RE153 was alerted to transfer to FS3 (Uniteds), RE153(Capt Lawson) took the transfer with 6.
While proceeding to Co.3 units from the Fire Task Force met fail time, RE153 requested via ECC to respond to fill the assignment, ECC granted RE153's response. RE153 responded and reported to a staging area at Waverly Dr and Key Pkwy as instructed by Command. RE153 second arriving on the Task Force reported promptly with their crew to the command post and was put to work opening up, checking for extension and perform overhaul operations. RE153 operated for 2.5 hours before being one of the last units placed in service by command.
