Truck Company Assist to Station 400

Commercial Structure Fire - Market Street, Snow Hill, Maryland
At 1425 hours on Wednesday, February 16, 2011 Station 2 was alerted to respond Truck 2 on an automatic mutual-aid assist to Worcester County - Station 400 (Snow Hill) for a Commercial Structure Fire, at 324 East Market Street in Snow Hill, Maryland. Snow Hill Chief 450 (R. Wooten) arrived on location in Command 4 to find a working fire in a saw-dust bin, located at Paul M. Jones Lumber. Truck 2 responded with a staffing of 4 and was staged at the scene upon arrival. Moments later the crew was re-directed to stand-by at Station 400, along with the crew of Girdletree Engine 305. During the cover assignment GVFD -Station 2 had a total of 7 personnel present.  The fire was contained to the saw-dust bin and units remained on the scene for over an hour for extinguishment.  Both Girdletree and Greenbackville were released by Command, upon units clearing the scene. (Special thanks to Ray Wooten for providing his photograph)


Units on scene: (Snow Hill) Command 4, Engine 401, Engine 405, Engine 407, Tanker 4, PM 400; and (Pocomoke) Tower 1.


Photos courtesy of: Snow Hill Chief Ray Wooten, and Brian Justice (GVFD).