At 1508 hrs. Rescue 1(J.Kivett) Ambulance 19(D.Whittington) And Chief 1(B.Freesland).  Responded to Kellam's ball field parking lot for a pedestrian struck.  Units arrived and found a 18 month old child that had been struck by a car.  Ambulance 19 assessed patient and requested a helicopter due to the mechanism of injury.  Rescue 1 handled the landing site.  Units cleared at 1540 hrs.

At 1332 hrs.  Engine 12 (R.Whittington) And Tower 1 (R.Wyatt) Responded with 8 Volunteers to Birch Dr in company 2's area (Prince Frederick) For the house on fire.  Moments later Chief 2 arrived on the scene and advised heavy fire showing and established the command.  Engine 12 arrived and advanced a 400' Attack line to the rear and assisted with fire attack and encountered a propane tank that had exploded.  Tower 1 arrived and assisted with exterior overhaul and secured utilities.  Units remained on scene for approx. 1 hour.Pictures courtesy of www.dchookedonphotography.com

At 1500 hours rescue box 1-08 was dispatched at Rt. 260 and Boyds Turn Rd. for the auto accident reported serious. Chief 1(Freesland) Rescue 1(Weber)Eng 11(Capt Gee) Amb 19(Whittington) responded along with Amb 58 and Squad 6(eventually dispatched). Crews found a 2 vehicle accident with both drivers trapped. Rescue 1 and Engine 11 popped the doors of both cars to get the drivers out. Eng 11 then handled the LZ at Kellums Ballfield. Units cleared shortly after.

At 1017 hours Area Box 1-10 was dispatched in the 3800 Block of 7th street in North Beach.Chief 1b(Ortenzo) Eng 11(Sgt Bennett) Tower 1(Kendrick) Eng 12 (O.Thrasher) Amb 18(K.Dillon) and Utility 1(Folley) responded to the call. Chief 6(Riffe) who was in the area arrived first and advised a one story single family home with heavy fire showing from the attic space.Just before the first crew arrived the homeowner was awakened from her sleep by Lt 1(Dillon) and escorted out of her burning house.As Initial crews arrived they advanced a crosslay into the front door and began knocking the fire from the attic door while Eng 11' and Tower 1's crew opened up the rest of the home to access the fire. Due to quick work from Beach and Dunkirk crews the fire was extinguished and Huntingtown's crew assisted Tower 1's crew with overhaul.

At 2100 hours Comercial Box 5-02 was disptatched on Keith Lane for the building fire. Tower 1(Whittington) and Eng 12(Brumley) responded to the call. Eng 52 arrived to find heavy smoke showing from a middle of the row commercial building. As Tower 1 arrived on scene they split crews to  Search the building (proved negative) throw ground ladders to side A,  and ventilate (utilizing trench cuts)and after the fire was extinguished they assisted with overhaul. Eng 12's crew reported to side c and assisted with extinguishing efforts. Ambulance 19 handled Rehab for the incident and Eng 11 responded on the second alarm but was kept in staging due to the quick work of all first alarm units .all pics courtesy of dchookedonphotography.com

At approximately 1230 hours  Area Box 1-02 was sounded in the 4900 block of Bayside Rd for the house fire. Eng 11(Keller) Tower 1(Stanton) and Eng 12(OcConnor)  and Amb 19 responded to the call. Crews arrived to a 2 story single family home with nothing evident. A small fire was found in the basement burning above an air duct and on top of a gas line. Utilities were quickly handled and the fire was extinguished. After a Slight Overhaul crews went inservice.

Just after clearing the HAZMAT on the base Special Box 2-16 was dispatched for the kitchen fire. Tower 1(Stanton) responded the call. Initial crews arrived to find a small fire in the kitchen.Initial units extinguished the fire quickly as the Tower arrived the fire was extinguished and was assigned to salvage and overhaul the affected area.

At approximately 0800 hours HazMat Box 104 was sounded for tank smoking. Rescue 1(Keller) Tower 1(Stanton) Engine 11(O.Thrasher) Amb 19(Kendrick). As crews arrived they found a 20,000 gallon tank actively venting. Chemist on advised that the tank previously contained different flammable materials and AFFF which were drained then the tank was cleaned. By use of thermal imaging cameras crews found that the chemicals were boiling  then were being released from the tank through an emergency vent in the top. Because of the heat of the tank Tower 1 and Tower 2 set up their aerial master streams to cool off the container. Later Quint 46(NDW) arrived to take over the scene

Rescue Box 1-02 was dispatched for the auto accident. Rescue 1(R.Whittington)  Ambulance 19 ,Squad 6  and Ambulance 6 responded to the call. Crews arrived to find 3 vehicles involved with no entrapment. with one patient semi consious.Squad 6 handled the LZ  for that patient while the other patients were packaged for transport to the hospital. Rescue 1 then cleared the scene of debris and went inservice.

Area box 105 was dispatched at Beach Elementary School for the tanker fire next to the building. Chief 1(B.Freesland) , Eng 11(R.Whittington) , Tower 1, and  Eng 12  responded to the call. Once on scene they found a tanker holding roofing tar with fire impinging on the tank. Engine 11 pulled a crosslay and quickly  extinguished the fire.

As we do every year, crews began washing,waxing, and polishing the pieces to be taken to the Annual Deale Parade. After the parade crews enjoyed the also Annual Deale  VFD Carnival while the judges decided on the award winners. This year The Beach House brought home the following awards : Best  Appearing  Rescue Pumper, Best Appearing Aerial , Best Appearing Ambulance, Best Appearing Company, and also 1st place in the Fire Truck Pull. 

Thanks to the crews who tirelessly put time in effort on preparing for the parade.

While Engine 12 was filling at Huntingtown Station 6 due to their units working on a working fire in St.Leonard, The engine(with additional members of co.6 riding) was put out for a first due(Co.6) box for the house fire. Once on scene Engine 12's crew found heavy fire showing, the crew quickly forced entry and stretched their 150' crosslay into the building extiguishing the fire and performed a primary search which proved to be negative .

At approximately 2200 hours Engine 12 was dispatched to the 42-17 box in AACO for the dwelling fire. While Chief 1(Freesland) and Eng 12(Lt. Dillon) were responding, Chief 42 arrived on scene and advised he had heavy fire showing. Once Eng 12 arrived they relieved Engine 9 as the RIT team so they could go to rehab. Later the crew was asked to report to the second floor and assist with overhaul. Crews arrived home around 0130 hours

D.C. pipes and Drums Fishtails 21st street and the bay monday 4:30 pm come and join them for happy hour!! Good times expected to be had!

While enroute to Huntingtown to assist Co.6 with a head on collision in the middle of another bad storm in the Southern Maryland Region, The crew of E12 witnessed a tornado touch down right in front of them. The tornado struck the local restauraunt "Traders" which was occupied at the time and then continued on towards the bay injuring 7 people. Eng 12(Sgt Clark) immediately called for additional BLS and ALS units to be added. One person was thrown 60 feet onto the sidewalk and had a portion of a roof land onto him. When triage was completed one patient was taken to PG Trauma,3 to CMH via ambulance and 3 POV. This natural disaster caused heavy damage to much of the beach area causing the Beach House to run 38 additional runs throughout the day and night, which included tree into houses with reported people trapped, medicals, and the usual tree downs. The Beach House had a good showing of membership for the storm having so many members that some had nothing to ride.