An American Red Cross babysitter training class for 11 to 15 year olds will be offered Saturday June 27th, 2009. Class size is limited; please call 419-238-9977 to register.
The Disaster Action Team (DAT) was called out by the Convoy Fire Department to a house fire on April 1, 2009. The call was received just before 10:00 PM and three members of the team responded.
The fire was out by the time the team arrived, but it had left a great deal of smoke damage to the residence. The Convoy FD made sure the building was safe while the DAT provided services to the residents, arriving back at the garage just before midnight.
CPR/PR class offered from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM at Van Wert Chapter Red Cross office. Please contact the Chapter office to register. The Red Cross reserves right to reschedule because of insufficient numbers of students.
The Disaster Action Team was called to a house fire in southern Van Wert County on the afternoon of March 21, 2009. Receiving the call at about 2:15 PM, 4 members of the team responded, reaching the scene just before 3:00.
The three responding departments, Ohio City, Mendon, and Middlepoint, had the fire extinquished and were working on clearing the scene. The warm spring afternoon made the liquid refreshments for the fire fighters very welcome. The DAT members also support to the family that lived in the house, helping them make various living arrangements because their house was badly damaged.
It was a busy afternoon for the fire departments, Middlepoint receiving a brush fire call not long after leaving the scene of the house fire, and some Ohio City units having to leave to respond to a different brush fire. The DAT remained on the scene until about 4:30 PM.
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- Mark gets set up while fire fighters check on the house.
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- Mark and Eleanor make plans while Linda waits.
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- Cleaning up and getting ready to go.
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- Fire fighters discuss options in front of the badly damaged house.
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- Putting away equipment and working on air packs.
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- 5 vehicles from Mendon and Ohio City departments
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- 2 firefighters heading for their vehicles to leave.
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- Something the Red Cross and fire departments have in common, paperwork.
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- A unit heading for a brush fire that has just been called in.
The Disaster Action Team (DAT) was called to an apartment fire in Van Wert at about 10:30 PM on February 28, 2009. 3 members responded, arriving on the scene at about 11:00 PM. The Van Wert Fire Department had extinguished the fire, but was still on the scene cleaning up and making sure there were no remaining hot spots.
The DAT remained on the scene providing support to the fire fighters and extending aid to the family that lived in the house.
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- A fire fighter starts rolling up hoses.
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- Firefighters head into garage for more work.
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- The garage where the fire started and spread
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- The truck that was in the garage at the start of the fire.
Putting away equipment after the fire.
The DAT received a call at about 3:20 PM to assist the Paulding County chapter with a house fire in Grover Hill. 3 members of the DAT drove up in the ERV, meeting a 4th member who drove directly there.
Driving carefully over the icy roads, the ERV arrived just before 4:30 PM, finding that the firefighters from the four responding departments, Grover Hill, Paulding City, Scott, and Oakwood, had the fire out and were in the process of to cleaning up.
Some firefighters getting coffee and hot chocolate during clean up.
The DAT members quickly set up to provide hot chocolate and coffee to the firefighters and residents of the house, and got the residents into the warm ERV. The DAT remained at the scene, assisting the house residents and providing refreshments to the fire personnel, until everything was taken care of, arriving back in Van Wert just after 6 PM.
The DAT received a call for a garage fire in the Middlepoint area at just after 9:00 PM on January 26, 2009. 4 members of the team responded, arriving at the fireat about 9:50 PM.
Five area fire departments responded to the fire, Middlepoint, Ottoville, Delphos, Grover Hill, and Scott, with the Van Wert Fire Department standing by, but not needed. The five departments on the scene had the fire almost out by the time the team, with the garage destroyed, but managing to limit the damage to the attached house.
The DAT provided refreshments to the departments as they finished putting out the fire and packed up. They also gave the family a warm place to wait and any help they required until after 11:00 PM.
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- The fire departments working on the last of the fire.
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- The ERV and the house.
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- A fireman leaves the house after checking the interior.
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- A fireman checking with colleagues inside the house.
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- Still putting water on the destroyed garage and the end of the house.
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- The Delphos Fire Department packing up their artificial pond.
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- Emergency lights mostly gone, the fire departments are almost done.
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- Angela cleaning up the ERV after the fire.
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- Eleanor and Angela clean and get things ready for the next run.
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- Mark checking supplies and helping clean.
2 members of the DAT responded to a house fire in Van Wert on January 15, 2009. The fire was quickly extinquished by the Van Wert Fire Department, and the team members were able to quickly help the residents of the home.
