At 21:31 Engine 2-13 was dispatched to assist East Pennsboro Twp. with a first alarm assignment. Units were alerted to 208 Senate Ave. Susquehanna View Apartments for a reported stove fire. Engine 2-13 responded immediately with 6 and arrived first at a 12 story multi residential, Engine 2-13 laid a 5-inch supply line from the hydrant in front of the building to the rear where the fire department connection is. The crew advanced to the 10th floor with a high rise pack and dry chemical extinguisher. Once at the apartment, the crew found the fire to be out. PPV was set up inside the apartment and the box was reduced to Companies 13, 21, and 16.

Units on scene
East Pennsboro Engines 2-21, 19, 20, 16, 17
WSBF Engine 2-13
Camp Hill Engine 14
Hampden Twp. Truck 30
Lower Allen Twp. Truck 12
East Pennsboro Rescue 18

At 0240 hrs. the WSBF was dispatched along with Co. 14 (Camp Hill) and Squad 8 (Harrisburg City) to an auto accident with an unconscious patient on I-83 North in the area of exit 41a (83/581 split).  While responding Engine 3 was advised the vehicle may have been involved in a police pursuit out of York County and 1 patient was ejected.  Squad 13 arrived first followed moments later by Engine 3 and Squad 8.  The vehicle went over the median barrier from the northbound lanes to the southbound lanes and down an embankment.  The single occupant (the driver) was ejected from the vehicle laying unconscious in the grass on the side of the highway.  Crews secured the vehicle and assisted with patient care, the patient was flown to the local Trauma Center by Life Lion.  Engine 3 remained on scene until 0530 hrs. to assist the Pa State Police with the accident investigation.

This crash would have been a spectacular sight to see.  The vehicle left the right lane ramp to Harrisburg on I-83, ramped up an embankment and went airborne across both northbound lanes and the southbound lanes.  The landing was on the opposite side of the southbound lanes and the vehicle tumbled to a stop.

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The evening of Wednesday, January 7th. shortly before 1800 hrs. the WSBF responded as part of the first alarm assignment to the 600 block of Harding St. New Cumberland for an odor of smoke in a house.  The home owner had just arrived home to discover the odor and immediately left the residence.  First arriving units encountered a moderate smoke condition and investigated to find there had a been a smoldering fire in the kitchen.  The WSBF assisted with overhaul of the kitchen and cleared the scene in 1 hour.

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Wednesday January 7th the Squad was dispatched to transfer to York County Station 64 (Dillsburg) around 1210 hrs.  While enroute the Squad was requested to the scene of a 3 alarm house fire on Ore Bank Road in Carroll Township.  First due units were originally called to the scene around 1120 hrs. that morning.  The Squad crew assisted with exterior operations on a defensive attack for two and a half hours.  First arriving units efforts were hindered by the lack of accessible water in the area.  There was a large pond on the property however the ground was too soft for fire apparatus to access the water and there are no hydrants in the area.  Multiple Tankers were needed to shuttle water to the scene.

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