Engine 73 and Ambulance 77 were dispatched this morning for cardiac arrest.  Units arrived on the scene within a minute from being dispatched. The crew from Riverdale found the patient on the floor of their home in full caridac arrest.  The crew went right to work starting CPR attaching the AED with one successful shock.  The patient was succesffully rescusitated prior to ALS arrival. The patient was quickly loaded into Ambulance 77 and transported to area hospital with the medic crew on board. Great job everyone and remember The Chain Of Survival.

Just after a few members left the station to go pick up lunch for everybody else, PSC received a call from Company 44 reporting a house fire at Chillum Manor Rd and Knollbrook Dr. PSC dropped the box and dispatched Tower 7 as the second due truck. Tower 7 responded with 6 personnel and was the 4^th arriving piece on the scene. The crew went to work venting and clearing the windows, opening up the interior, and searching as they went. After a few minutes on the scene the incoming power lines that were arching and burning, on side Bravo, fell in the front yard. Command pulled the first engine and truck out and the crew from Tower 7 went back to the second floor to open up the second floor and man a hose line in the attic. With the fire being gas fed on side Charlie, the crew from Tower 7 would not extinguish the fire but rather keep it in check while opening the second floor. After working inside for about 40 minutes the crew from Tower 7 was removed and sent to rehab. As units waited for Washington Gas to arrive on the scene to cut the gas, Command scaled back the assignment and released Tower 7. 

 On a side note, while working in the fire room opening up Michael “Lightning” McClary found a hot wire and got a small shock. He was sent to the EMS group to be checked out and was transported to MedStar for being electrocuted. He was held over night for observation and is doing well.

On Sunday July 18, 2010 just before 2300hrs PSC dispatched the box alarm for 6033 10th Place in the Chillum area (44's first due) of the county. Engine 72 responded with four personnel as the fourth due engine. Engine 72 arrived on the scene and secured company 44's water supply. The crew advanced a line to the basement per command and then assisted with overhaul on the fire floor. Engine 72 cleared the scene in about an hour and a half.

Just before the final members crawled into bed for the night, PSC alerted Engine 72 and Ambulance 77 for the MVC with one ejected in the 6000blk of Riverdale Rd. Engine 72 and the Ambulance arrived on the scene with a two car accident with one on its roof and a patient lying under the rear of the car. The Ambulance crew started to access the patient as the Engine crew pulled a protection line. Rescue Squad 1 arrived on the scene and stabilized the car and assisted the EMS crews with packaging the patient. The crews turned over care to ALS and remained on the scene for almost a hour assisting in clean up.

The members at Riverdale had just finished apparatus checks and going over the county's Heat Advisory Plan, when at 1604hrs PSC dispatched box 55-1 for 3810 40th St, in Cottage City, for the house on fire. Tower 7, Chief 7A and Chief 7B responded with 8 personnel as the first due truck. The engine from 55 went on the scene with fire showing from side "B". Company 7 arrived on the scene and went to work performing the primary search, placing three ladders, and venting the house. Chief 7A was assigned interior and Chief 7B was assigned Division 2. With searches proving negative and the fire being knocked, Command started rotating crews. All units worked on the scene for about 90 minutes before Command scaled it back to engines 553, 94, truck 1, and Tower 7. The Tower went in service just before 1930hrs.