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Friday, January 20, 2012 - 4th Alarm Fatal Fire Box 0103
At 0708hrs. Allegany County EOC alerted SQ18 on the 4th Alarm assignment for a rowhouse
fire on East Harrison St. in Cumberland. The intial alarm was reported to the EOC with entrapment on the second floor.
First arriving firefighters from Cumberland rescued a female victim from the second floor on side Alpha. Cumberland
FD ambulance transported the subject to WMRMC were she was pronounced deceased. SQ18 responded with a crew of seven.
SQ18 arrived on scene and was staged near the intersection of East Harrison and Park St. The crew reported to the command
post and was assigned to perform a secondary search of the second floor of the primary fire building. The secondary
search was negative. The interior crew from the Squad was then used to perform overhaul in the same area they performed
the search. Two members of the crew were utilized to extinguish fire burning along the roof on the Bravo side of the
structure. During overhaul operations, a crew from Cumberland FD found the second victim in the rear of the second floor. Crews
remained on the scene throughout the morning working to extinguish hot spots. The Squad operator utilized the cascade
system to assist with refilling SCBA's on the Delta side of the structure. The fire was deemed out and mutual aid crews
were releaseed around 1330hrs. The fire destroyed two rowhouses and damaged a third rowhouse. Smoke detectors
were not present in any of the rowhouses involved. Fire Marshals from Cumberland FD and the State are investigating
the cause of the fire.
Intial Alert: E1-1, TW-1, E1-2, PM343, CU1
Units on scene: ER1-1, ER2-1, TW-1, U1, PM343, PM341, ER1-3, CU1, TW-2, E25-13, E27-11, ER6-1, E171, SQ18,
ER3-1, AIR14, QR8, M375, PM364, ER9-2, E5-1, A371
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