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Assist Oxford on a Building Fire - 100 Block of Barnsley Road
Tuesday, September 6, 2011

In the early evening of September 6th, 2011, the Union Fire Company of Oxford (Station 21) and Cecil County Station 8 were dispatched at 16:22 to the 100 block of Barnsley Road for a building fire. Chief 21 arrived on scene at 16:24 and requested the working fire dispatch. At 16:25 Rescue 27, along with Medic 94 and Lancaster County Station 5-13 were dispatched to respond to the fire. At 16:28 the assignment was upgraded to a second alarm fire. Rescue 27 went en route with six at 16:33 and was advised that the crew would act as the Rapid Intervention Team. Engine 27-5 was dispatched at 16:40 as part of the first alarm tanker task force on the assignment. Engine 27-5 went en route with a crew of five at 16:46. Chief 21 assumed Baltimore Pike Command at 16:43. Upon Rescue 27’s arrival at 16:57, the crew staged on the alpha side of the structure in the event a rapid intervention team was needed. Engine 27-5 arrived on location at 17:02 and sent its crew up to the scene to help fill Rescue 27’s crew while the engine went into the tanker shuttle line up. Rescue 27 returned available at 00:00 and Engine 27-5 returned at 00:56. 27 Units: Rescue 27 and Engine 27-5. Mutual Aid Units: Union Fire Company, Cecil County Station 8, Robert Fulton Fire Company, Medic 94, West Grove Fire Company, FM 101 and 102, Cecil County Station 28, Avondale Fire Company, Bart Fire Company, New Castle County Station 19, Christiana Fire Company, Quarryville Fire Company, Longwood Fire Company, Kennett Fire Company, Westwood Fire Company, Cecil County station 72, Honey Brook Fire Company, Good Will Fire Company, Twin Valley Fire Company, and Cecil County Station 4. **Special thanks to the Gordonville Fire Company for standing by at our station.