Shortly after 3pm on Wednesday May 13th, Brush 19 got to take the fight up north. As part of a 2nd alarm assignment, Brush 19 got dispatched to the area of Codorus Furnace Road and Sherman Street Extended for a working barn fire.

Brush 19 responded shortly after dispatch with Lieutenant Sandman and Firefighter Love. Upon arriving they were given orders to report to the rear of the structure and assist there. Brush 19 was utilized to assist in various points of fire attack and containment. Brush 19 and crew were on scene for just over an hour before being released by Chief 23 (Stevens).

Finally after nearly a year in the dark, Station 19 has a new sign in the front of the station.

The sign had to be purchased after an a motorist under the influence of alcohol* struck the sign pulling it off it's foundation. Although the old sign was partially salvaged and still used for the last several months, components of the sign were unrepairable.

The sign has been upgraded and now contains LED letters that will be used to advertise events at the station instead of using panel letters on a lighted white background. The sign also contains the station address, web address, and company patch in bigger bolder lettering.

*All suspects in the accident are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

On Wednesday morning around 1115 hours, Stations 19, 18, & 1 were alerted to smoke coming from a structure at 53 Fair Acres Drive in York Township. Ambulance 18 arrived first with smoke coming from side "A". LT. 19-A arrived a few minutes later with the same progress report.

Engine 19 ( Wood-Driver, Barkdoll-Officer, Brandt, and Sandman) arrived a few minutes later to find a single story residence. Smoke was creeping from the front side of the home and crews noted that the windows had already been smoke stained. Entry was made by E19's crew and a primary search was completed with no one found inside. Engine 18 arrived and layed a supply line to the scene and then provided manpower as interior with 19's crew. A small amount of fire was extinguished in the livingroom area. Engine 1, along with Trucks 1 & 34 laddered the roof and started checking for extension into other areas of the home.  No additional fire was found.

After extinguishing the flames and evacuating the smoke, crews noted heavy charring to the walls and ceiling throughout the entire home. Most of the fire damage was contained to the livingroom where the fire had originated. The Fire Marshal on scene rulled the cause accidental due to a faulty extension cord being used by a small space heater.

No injuries were reported. Crews cleared the scene around 1300 hours.

 A Special Note of Recognition: Ryan Fisher, a firefighter in training with Station 19 caught this as his first working fire. As he is still dedicating his time to his training he was unable to help interior crews but was able to use this as a learning experience. After crews had completed overhaul, he was walked through the building so he could get a visual of what he is to face in the coming months and years as a future interior firefighter.

On Monday the 30th of March at approximately 2315 hours, crews were alerted for a barn fire on Verio Road in the Township. Minutes later Medic 97-3 called out in the area with a fully invloved barn fire. Engine 19 went responding with a crew of 6 ( Wood - Driver, Beavers - Officer, Canorro, Nicholson, Trout, & Brandt). Heavy fire was seen from the corner of Leaders Heights Road and Queen Street.

Engine 19 was ordered into the scene by Chief 35, who had arrived and established Command. He advised we had an approximate 20x12 building that was fully invloved in fire. Upon arriving, Engine 19's crew pulled 3 handlines and quickly made a knockdown. Engine 19 was resupplied by Engine 35-2 who laid approximately 1300 feet of 5 inch supply line from the nearest hydrant. The fire was declared out by Lieutenant 19-C about 30 minutes later, with the box going available 45 minutes after the dispatch. A great job by everyone invloved.

Thanks go out from Station 19 to all crews who made the effort to get there and provide our crews support (Stations 35, 34, 18, 1, 2, & 41)

A Special Note of Recognition: Kory Trout, a firefighter in training with Station 19 caught this as his first working fire. Kory has not started his training as of yet, so he was unable to assist in the fire's attack, but he was able to utilize this experience to get a visual demonstartion of a working fire scene and all of it's components put into action.

A 10 year old boy had a Valentine's day that he won't soon forget. At about 1930hrs. Truck 19, Rescue 19, and Ambulance 19 were called to the scene of a residential rescue at the Country Inn & Suites on St. Charles Way. Upon arriving crews found a 10 year old boy whos left leg was trapped in an eliptical training machine in the hotel weight room. Bystanders and crews worked for about 20 minutes to free the boy from his captor. BLS looked over the boy who was more shaken than injured, suffering only minor scrapes and cuts.

Around 1050hrs. Station 19 was dispatched to 56 Oak Street for wires down. Engine 19 (Barkdoll) arrived in the area and requested Fire Police to block off School Street for wires laying in the roadway. Fire Police and Service 19 ( Wood) closed the roadway awaiting the arrival of Met ED.




Around 1206hrs. Crews on scene noticed smoke coming from under a tree trunk on the opposite side of the street after a gust of wind had moved the wires. Shortly thereafter fire began to spread up the hill and eastbound up School Street. Command was established by Service 19 and Tanker 36 was dispatched to Oak Manor drive to monitor exposures at the top of the hill. Engine 35 was requested to 90 School Street to stop the spread of the fire towards exposures in that area. Upon the arrival of Engine 35-2, there was heavy fire in the area. Brush 19 (Rabenstine) responded to Oak Manor drive to fill Tanker 36s request for forestry line, and the fire was attacked from the top of the hill as well as the bottom. The fire was quickly knocked down, leading to an extensive overhaul of the area including cutting down several trees which continued to burn inside. The box was placed in service by Command at 1411hrs.




A special thanks to Tanker 36, Engine 35-2, and Tanker 35 for their quick responses and dilligent work in extinguishing the fire. Home owners in the area expressed their thanks multiple times for the quick actions of all involved.

After several months of collecting holiday donations, the results are finally in. We started out this year with hopes of being able to raise a few dollars, just to be able to help in whatever way we could. We, at Goodwill Fire Company, could never have expected such an outpouring from the general public for these two charities. With the money and toys collected over the course of the last 3 months, Coats for Kids and Toys for Tots each received over $1000 in donations this year.




The Coats for Kids campaign monies raised by the Fire Department will go to help kids, right here in our school district, get new warm coats to help them get through the remainder of this bitterly cold winter. Thanks to you, $1472 was raised for the Coats for Kids campaign. Every $90 raised bought six new coats for the program, and with the total Goodwill was able to raise, the program will be able to  purchase just under 100 coats to help children in need. That number may not seem like a lot when compared to the amount of children out there who need help, but there are 25 students in an average school classroom. This means together, we were able to outfit 4 classrooms of kids with new coats this year.




The Toys for Tots campaign was also proven to be a success. Mr. Tom Fogarty had to make several trips to the station to pick up box after box of toys for the program. Many people donated toys, but even more donated money. The Fire Department used the donated money, and went Christmas shopping. We used the donated money to purchase several hundred dollars worth of toys for the program. Every dollar that was donated went to purchase basketballs, soccer balls, girls toys, boys toys, colloring books, crayons, etc. When the final balance was added up, we raised $1082 for the program, and again...it was thanks to the donations that you gave.




We at Goodwill Fire Company, would like to take the time to thank all of you for your continued support, and we would like to make a special thanks to everyone who donated for these two programs this year. Without you, none of this would have been possible. We all have been able to make a few kids futures a little brighter just by giving what we had. Thank You!

Around 2030hrs. Station 19, 35 and EMS were alerted for a reported structure fire in the 2200 block of Old Colony Road. Ambulance 19 arrived first and advised they had heavy fire in the garage of the home. Deputy 19, prior to arriving on scene, had County strike out a second alarm assignment. Truck 19 arrived to find the fire in the 2 car garage was blowing against the second floor of the house. Truck 19's crew (Canorro, Love, and Chief Miller) immediately went interior attack through a breezeway connecting the garage to the rest of the home to hold the fire from getting to the main house.




Additional resources were utilized to help extinguish the fire, look for extension into the residence, and overhaul. crews had the fire out in less than 90 minutes.




Special thanks go out to all who assisted on this fire. Units on the scene included units from Stations 1, 18, 24, 34, 35, 36, 41, 63 and 89. A very special thanks goes out from Station 19 to Engine 59-1(Glen Rock) and Lancaster Truck 8-1 (Columbia) for standing by at Station 19 during the incident.

The Friday morning commute was interrupted for many people living in Red Lion when a reported structure fire was reported around 0815 in the 300 block of First Avenue. On initial dispatch, County advised that the windows of the structure had already been blown out. Cheif 37-1 arrived in the area within minutes reporting working fire and hitting an additional alarm.




Truck 19 was dispatched as part of the second alarm assignment, and upon arriving was ordered to ladder side C of the structure, which was now moving into 3 additional attached homes. Throughout the next several hours, several more alarms were hit for additional resources, which also added Engine 19 to the box. Truck 19 and Engine 19's crews, (Hildmann, Wood, Herman, Keech, Beavers, Miller, & Paulsen) were utilized primarily in the attic of 312 First Avenue where they pulled ceilings, assisted with ventilation, and worked on overhaul operations. Engine and Truck 19 were placed available around 1400hrs.




A special thanks to Station 12 (North Codorus) and their Engine crew for providing Station 19 stand-by support during the Red Lion fire.

In the early hours of the new year Station 19's Foam Trailer was requested to the 900 Block of Wise Avenue in Windsor Township. A multi-alarm fire had broken out in a garage, which also contained some apartment space.  Service 19 responded with a crew of 4 and assisted with Foam Operations, using 20 pails of Class B Foam.