On Wednesday 9/23/20 for our weekly training we once again had John Sileski (Product Specialist with MES) at the station to finish our training with our new Res-Q-Jack Struts.

For night two of training crews went through several different scenarios again where the struts would need to be used. Crews also practiced several different ways of using the struts.

At the end of the night crews used the ... (Full Story & Photos)

On Monday night 9/21/2020 at 7:43pm multiple Fire, Police and EMS units were dispatched to the 200blk of Reeceville Rd for a possible paraglider who came down in the wooded area between Brandywine Hospital and Freedom Village.

The initial report given to first responding units was that a paraglider that appeared to be coming in for a landing was too low and almost struck the chimney of the Huston ... (Full Story & Photos)

Recently the East Brandywine Fire Company purchased and put into service a Res-Q-Jack Apex Series & Greenlite Series X-Strut system. The Apex Series will be operated off of Rescue 49 while the Greenlite Series Struts will be on Ladder 49.

These struts will be used during vehicle extrication mainly when the vehicle ends up on it's side or the roof to quickly and safely stabilize the vehicle so that ... (Full Story & Photos)

For this weeks training we were joined by John Sileski (Product Specialist with MES) and Steve Miller (Sales Rep with MES) who were at Station 49 to give our members an in depth & hands on training on our new Res-Q-Jack strut system that we just placed into service.

Tonight's training focused on roof resting stabilization/raise and side resting stabilization utilizing our wood cribbing and the Res-Q-Jack ... (Full Story & Photos)

On Tuesday September 16th at 16:25hrs Engine 49-5 was dispatched to assist Lionville Fire Company on a large haybale fire on Milford Rd in Upper Uwchlan. Lionville Engine 47-5, Tower 47, Tanker 73 and 48-5 were already on the call and had approx. 60 bales of hay on fire in a field.

Due to the size of the pile crews requested a front end loader/backhoe to help pull the pile apart so that crews could ... (Full Story & Photos)

Just after 5am on Wednesday September 2nd East Brandywine Fire Company volunteers were dispatched to assist the Honey Brook Fire Company at Bakery Feeds in Honey Brook Township.

Initial reports were of a biomass structure approx 40' high with fire on the inside. Deputy 33 arrived and confirmed he had a working fire in the duct work of the machine which is outside of the building. Crews from Honey ... (Full Story & Photos)

On Friday August 21st at 8:58pm Station 49, 35 (Wagontown), 48 (Glen Moore), Engine 38 (Thorndale), Engine 45 (Alert), Engine 44 (Westwood), RIT 47 (Lionville) and MICU144 (Westwood) were dispatched to the 100blk of Swinehart Rd in West Brandywine for a possible dwelling fire.

Chief 49 made the response and was notified by the Chester County 911 Center that the caller was reporting flames visible ... (Full Story & Photos)

On Friday August 21st at 5:02pm Station 49 along with 48 (Glen Moore), Engine 38 (Thorndale), Engine 45 (Alert), Rescue 35 (Wagontown), Engine 39 (West Bradford), RIT 33 (Honey Brook) and MICU 46 (Minquas) were dispatched to the 500blk of Prizer Ct in the Applecross Development for the reported house fire.

Deputy 49 made the response immediately after dispatch and was notified by Chester County ... (Full Story & Photos)