Southwest Greensburg Fire Department
Thursday, February 10th, 2022
Truck 24 assisted City companies today with a house fire on Harrison Ave. Initial arriving crews found an advanced fire in the rear of the house extending to a 2nd house. Truck crew assisted on scen...
Saturday, January 15th, 2022
Truck 24 assisted Youngwood with a house fire on S 7th street in Youngwood Borough. 10 members operated on scene for approximately 3 hours battling the fire and the cold temperatures.
Sunday, January 2nd, 2022
Last evening at 7:58 PM, The Truck and Rescue Pumper were dispatched to Farmington Place in Hempfield Twp for a possible house fire. Captain 29 arrived and reported a working fire. Truck 24 arrived ...
Saturday, October 23rd, 2021
Truck and Rescue Pumper 24 assisted the City with a house fire over night. 1st due units arrived to a well involved house spreading to a 2nd house.
Crews from 24 operated on scene for nearly 4 hou...
Thursday, May 19th, 2022
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Saturday, April 30th, 2022
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022
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Tuesday, January 4th, 2022
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Call history
Oakland Ave House Fire
Friday, March 19th, 2021
Crews were dispatched to a house fire at 3:35 AM this morning in the rear of the 400 Block of Oakland Ave in the Borough. The fire was contained to the area of origin.
Truck an Rescue Pumper along with units from South Greensburg, Youngwood, Geeensburg, Hempfield Twp and Crabtree operated on scene for just under 2 hours.
This fire was started as a result of an electronic space heater being placed too close to a pile of clothes. Please be safe while using any type of portable heaters. Also, please properly place operating smoke detectors in your residences. The occupants of this house were awoken and able to safely escape due to a functioning smoke alarm.
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262 entries in the Call history
Thursday, February 10th, 2022
Truck 24 assisted City companies today with a house fire on Harrison Ave. Initial arriving crews found an advanced fire in the rear of the house extending to a 2nd house. Truck crew assisted on scene for over 3 hours.
Saturday, January 15th, 2022
Truck 24 assisted Youngwood with a house fire on S 7th street in Youngwood Borough. 10 members operated on scene for approximately 3 hours battling the fire and the cold temperatures.
Sunday, January 2nd, 2022
Last evening at 7:58 PM, The Truck and Rescue Pumper were dispatched to Farmington Place in Hempfield Twp for a possible house fire. Captain 29 arrived and reported a working fire. Truck 24 arrived 1st due and the crew went to work.
Saturday, October 23rd, 2021
Truck and Rescue Pumper 24 assisted the City with a house fire over night. 1st due units arrived to a well involved house spreading to a 2nd house. Crews from 24 operated on scene for nearly 4 hours assisting with suppression efforts and mop up.
Wednesday, October 13th, 2021
24 Truck assisted the Hempfield Bureau of Fire with a house fire in the West Point section of the Township. The house fire displaced a family of 9. The Truck operated on scene with a crew of 5 for approximately 2 hours.
Friday, March 19th, 2021
12 hours after the house fire in the Borough, the Truck and Rescue Pumper assisted with a fire in an apartment building in the city. Crews battled this multi alarm fire before bringing it under controlled.
Friday, March 19th, 2021
Crews were dispatched to a house fire at 3:35 AM this morning in the rear of the 400 Block of Oakland Ave in the Borough. The fire was contained to the area of origin. Truck an Rescue Pumper along with units from South Greensburg, Youngwood, Geeensburg, Hempfield Twp and Crabtree operated on scene...
Tuesday, October 27th, 2020
Shortly after 5:00 PM this evening, the Rescue Pumper and Truck were dispatched to Chestnut Street in the Borough for a report of a male with his foot caught in an air conditioning duct. PD and Chief Wright arrived to find a male patient with his foot in a floor duct vent that had its cover removed...
Monday, July 6th, 2020
Station 24 and the first alarm were activated for a reported house fire in the 400 block of Chestnut St in the Borough. Chief 24 Wright arrived on scene just over 2 minutes after dispatch and reported a working fire.
Wednesday, May 13th, 2020
Crews arrived to a reported Natural Gas Leak on Mt Pleasant Street in the Borough. Gas was leaking from the riser of a meter set. Members contained the leak and secured area until Peoples Natural Gas arrived on site.
Sunday, April 12th, 2020
The Truck and Rescue Pumper assisted Youngwood this afternoon at the Christ United Methodist Church. Original reports of smoke in the building were investigated and found to be a malfunctioning furnace.
Friday, January 17th, 2020
It’s been a busy day so far for the Borough’s including this crash with entrapment on Rt 119 in a southwest Greensburg. Crews from RP 24 and Rescue 32 (South Greensburg) extricated the patient who was transported to a hospital.
Thursday, January 9th, 2020
As Rescue Pumper 24 and 32 Engine were operating at a minor vehicle accident on Route 119, the Department's were dispatched to a trailer fire behind Art's Barber Shop on Broad Street in South Greensburg.
Thursday, January 10th, 2019
It was a busy morning for the department as we responded to two house fires in the City in 10 hours. The Rescue Pumper assisted with a house fire on Mt Pleasant Street just before midnight. This morning just after 9, the truck assisted with a house fire on Park Ave that took several hours to br...
Friday, August 31st, 2018
The Borough fire department as well as surrounding departments responded to a garage fire on the 400 block of Green Street this afternoon. The fire was reported by FF Todd Brant who spotted the fire on his way home from work as a Borough Police Officer.
Thursday, March 15th, 2018
Truck 24 was activated at 7:50 this morning to assist South Greensburg with an individual who fell approximately 16’ into an excavation. The truck was used as a high point and crew members assisted with the extrication.
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2018
The new year kicked into full gear as the Truck and/or Rescue Pumper responded to 9 incidents, including our first building fire of 2018 (pictures below assisting Hempfield #2), and 4 accidents, 1 of which had entrapment and multiple serious injuries (pictured-assisting the City).
Wednesday, September 13th, 2017
At 10:04 PM Station 24 was dispatched to the 200 block of Foster Street in the Borough for a smell of smoke in a house. Upon arrival, Chief Wright found smoke coming from a duplex across the street and down the alley from the reported address.
Monday, September 4th, 2017
The Rescue Pumper and Truck responded to the 500 Block of Oakland Ave for a fence on fire. Neighbors were using garden hoses on the fire upon arrival. The Rescue Pumper stretched a line to finish extinguishment.
Monday, July 24th, 2017
At 7:21 this evening, while the members of the department were out on company training, the 1st alarm was activated for a possible electrical fire at a duplex on the 400 block of Oakland Ave in the Borough.
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