10.14.09 - 2nd Alarm House Fire, 4000 blk. Airport Rd., Hanover Twp., PA

at 0732 hrs. Lehigh Valley International Airport crash truck 2 reported heavy smoke and flames in the area and investigated. Shortly after, Crash 2 reports a 2-story farm house fully-involved East of Airport Road and North of Schoersville Road. Hanover Company 15 and Han-Le-Co 33 were dispatched.

Command special-called for tankers, however, with a hydrant nearby and problems accessing the scene, tankers were recalled. Companies 15, 45, 53, 63 from Northampton County and Han-Le-Co 33 worked at the scene.

The fire caused massive rush-hour congestion in the area as Old Airport Road and New Airport Road was closed due to hoses across the highway.

Newsworking.org provided the Fire Police with coffee and donuts from Dunkin Donuts. We thank them for allowing us the courtesy to gain access to the fireground. Thanks again! All fire police personnel should be as professional as the Han-Le-Co crew.

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[FDNY101202]

wrong month newsworking :-)

[newsworking]

Thanks!  Its been changed.

[MettaFireRescue]

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess it wasn't a lightning strike. Well, not a Mother Nature "lightning" strike, anyway. STAY SAFE!

[emthmt28]

The only reason the airport had Rescue 2 and and Rescue 3 (the truck with the Snozzle) is they only have 2 FF staffed at a time and the snozzle was the reserve that day. Of course the 2 previous weeks it was the primary, go figure. Rescue 2 wasn't able to get up to the house due to the heavy overgrowth, all the water they attempted to flow just hit the trees and bounced or the fire would have been out before anyone else even arrived. 3000 gallons of water would have been an easy out.

[Busdude97]

Which truck has the Detroit?

[MultiMonster69]

What was the point for the front end loader that like appeared out of no where

[TheMusic215]

@newsworking why respond with a crash truck? for more water? and pump and roll

[k41361]

cool not to often you see an arff truck on a house fire !

[clear4push]

The dwelling is airport property, that was the main reason for the airport emergency team showed up.

[BossHoss369]

Wrong, you cannot criticize a department that you cannot see. All that you can see is arriving apparatus and a burning patch in trees, no firefighting tactics what so ever.

[MettaFireRescue]

Can't criticize a department that doesn't do anything to be criticized for. STAY SAFE!

[Deputy3204]

Surprised MettaFIreRescue has nothing bad to say today?.... STAY SAFE!

[gls4286]

To close the loop on the rekindle - it was handled with a single 2 1/2 gallon PW extinguisher. Nothing more was required...