The Salisbury Fire Department responded to an appliance fire, yesterday afternoon, on Camden Avenue at 3:04 pm. Upon the first engine’s arrival, heavy smoke was noted to be coming from the structure and a first alarm assignment was requested.
Salisbury Fire Department fire crews were able to make an aggressive interior attack, bringing the fire under control within 35 minutes. A total of 21 personnel were on scene, working together to mitigate the fire.
The owner/occupant reported leaving unattended food on the stove. He was awoken by a functioning smoke detector which alerted him, one other adult and two children, all whom exited the structure safely prior to the arrival of the Salisbury Fire Department. City of Salisbury Neighborhood Services and Code Compliance condemned the structure due to the severity of damage.
The Salisbury Fire Department urges everyone to never leave cooking food unattended. Cooking continues to be the leading cause of home fires and home fire injuries across the Unites States. While not all of the following occurred, here are some tips on how you can prevent a cooking fire in your home:
Be on alert! If you are sleepy or have consumed alcohol don’t use the stove or stovetop.
Stay in the kitchen while you are frying, grilling, or broiling food. If you leave the kitchen for even a short period of time, turn off the stove.
If you are simmering, baking, roasting, or boiling food, check it regularly, remain in the home while food is cooking, and use a timer to remind you that you are cooking.
Keep anything that can catch fire — oven mitts, wooden utensils, food packaging, towels or curtains — away from your stovetop.
Don’t hold children while you are cooking and don’t let children play near where food is being prepared. This will help keep them burn and injury free.
If you have a cooking fire:
Just get out! When you leave, close the door behind you to help contain the fire.
Call 9-1-1 or the local emergency number after you leave.
Keep a lid nearby when you’re cooking to smother small grease fires. Smother the fire by sliding the lid over the pan and turn off the stovetop. Leave the pan covered until it is completely cooled.
For an oven fire turn off the heat and keep the door closed.
Do not try to fight the fire. Make sure you and everyone in the home gets out and stays out.
The Salisbury Fire Department will be scheduling an “After The Fire” program for the affected Camden Avenue neighborhood this week, in which crews will go door to door to speak to residents about fire safety, escape plans, and test smoke detectors. Crews will be on Richmond Avenue this Wednesday, January 13th, at 1pm, in follow-up of last Friday’s house fire.
The Salisbury Fire Department again urges residents to please test your smoke detectors and practice your escape plans with your families. If you or someone you know is in need of a working smoke detector, please contact the Salisbury Fire Department at 410-548-3120.
That should be worth five hours of overtime for the P.I.O. Thanks for a bunch of information we already know.
ReplyDeleteYou can give a tick a ladder truck, but that wont mean he knows how to use it.
ReplyDeleteHay 9:21
ReplyDeleteIF people already knew it we wouldnt have fires.
Hay 9:26
ReplyDeleteI take it your the tick...what a discrace to the company.
I never really got the whole tick thing?? Are you calling people ticks who do the job for free and save the city money in personel expense?? Or are they ticks becuse they fill spots that the city would otherwise have to pay people to fill.. thus taking members away from your union?? Either way I see Unions as a bigger "tick" on our society and economy then some volunteers.
ReplyDeleteHey local4246firefighter,
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen any of you know how to use one either
wow how many people can hide on a ladder at one time.
ReplyDeleteT.I.C.K.
ReplyDeleteTotally Incapable of Containing Knowledge. I believe the Local member was making reference to the unusal low angle of the ladder, These aerial devices are usually placed at the roof in this situation. I'm not sure what the objective was here. Perhaps someone who was at the scene could elaberate.
I could have thrown two ground ladders to that roof in the time it took the driver to set the brakes, engage the PTO, get out, chock the wheels, set the outriggers, raise, extend and rotate the aerial ladder there....In fact, I would have thrown two ground ladders, vented the windows and been well on my way into the primary search......
ReplyDeleteSalisbury's information is deceminated on this site ? I thought the Fire Chief banned you from giving information to Joe. Guess its just when the firefighters expose the dirty truth that its not permitted.
ReplyDeletereally what needs to happen is put the whole fire dept back to totally volunteer ... im from NJ and was in a FD up there and we never had the problems and bickering that goes through the salisbury FD .... I was proud to be a firefighter ...but there seem to be a select few here is salisbury that only care about a check and to have the city buy many many many unneeded toys ... like a laddertruck .... funny the tallest building ive seen in SBY is the hospital
ReplyDeleteI agree with anon 6:25. I see no reason for the ladder truck to be set up. I could have thrown ground ladders and accomplished the same tasks. If not faster considering the fact of how long it took to set that ladder up and get the jacks inplace and what not.
ReplyDeleteWell Cory, the problems in Salisbury originate from a Volunteer who spends every dollar he can find. The Volunteer and Career get along very well and agree with the previous statement. They understand each others role and get along pretty well. You would have to be on the inside to understand whats going on here.
ReplyDeleteto 8:55 it might be a volunteer that spends the money ... but it seems to come down to who has to be accountable for it .... in my experience whenever the dept i was in wanted to spend alot of money it have to be presented before the dept voted on and then presented before the town .... apparently the SFD does not have to do that and that is the main problem that i see. And i will also agree with 6:25 that there should never been a laddertruck put into service on this particular call there was no need for it... and it was in the way .... but again i was a NJ firefighter and we did things alot diffrently especially with a dwelling fire... like putting a Pump into service before a laddertruck
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ReplyDeleteThis is where i sneeze and say excuse me im allergic to Bull Sh!t
Thats ok 957 you dont have to keep crying MD firefighters will always be better than Jersy Firesomethings anyday weter they are made to look bad on the news or not.
ReplyDeleteCory,
ReplyDeleteIn this city the volunteer Deputy Chief is in the back pockets of three of the council. The president is a former volunteer asst. chief and tells two council women what to vote for. The past two chiefs are scared to stop him and we have the current mess. Similar to the mofia you have in N.J. The membership has little say in how its spent. If they tell the deputy no, he just threatens to take it.
if the membership has so little to say ...then the whole dept needs to be restructured to allow all the members to have a say in what is bought .... also it should not be up to only 2 council people ...but brought up in front of the town or voted on before it is bought
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