Volunteers Respond on the Rescue Box for the Train Accident
By Fire Chief Benjamin Nalborczyk
March 15, 2016
Around 0440hrs after just clearing a first due Double Local for an Odor in the House, Rescue Box 33-5 was alerted for the report of a Train into a Passenger Car. The assignment alerted the Ambulance(Sgt Kline), Rescue Engine(LT Hanagan) and Engine(Sgt Thews) who responded with a total of 16 personnel, Chief-15(Nalborczyk) and Chief-15-1(Moe) also responded on the assignment. First arriving Engine-152 went on the scene at Ijamsville Rd and the tracks with a train into a car. Chief-15 arrived shortly after the other units and assumed the Ijamsville Command. Chief-15-1 was appointed the Incident Scene Safety Officer. Units reported that they had no entrapment however they had a trauma patient needing transport the assignment was held to units on the scene. Medic-159 transported a single patient to the awaiting trauma facility. Command was terminated and the scene turned over to FCSO and CSX.