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  Structure Fire: Groton Village
  On Wednesday January 4th just before 11:00AM, a passerby stopped Groton PD to report smoke coming from a residence on Pasadena Avenue in the Village of Groton. Groton Police arrived on scene shortly afterwards and reported a working structure fire.
 Groton Fire Units were initially dispatched at 11:06AM. Groton Deputy Chief 862 arrived on scene with Engine 801 and asked for an Engine with Manpower out of Dryden and another Engine with manpower out of McLean. A minute later Cortlandville was requested for their FAST Team, followed by one Engine out of Freeville with Manpower. An Engine out of Locke was also requested to standbye at Groton's Fire Station.
  At 11:10 Dryden's Ladder was requested to the scene. As the tones dropped for our ladder, Engine 501 pulled out driven by Deputy Chief 562 Dave Cotterill with a crew of Captain 582 Bruce Eck, FF. Jen Wildridge, FF. Erin King, and FF. Andrew Clark. Ladder 531 left a minute later driven by Fire Chief 561 Mark Bell with a crew of FF. Tim Arnold.
  Dryden and Groton Ambulances were requested to standbye at the scene of the fire at 11:16AM.
  Engine 501 arrived at 11:21AM and Ladder 531 arrived a minute later and both began crews fire ground operations. Locke units were requested to move from standbye up to the scene and Homer F.D. was requested for an Engine to standbye at Groton's Station.
  Freeville Engine 701 checked enroute at 11:24 while McLean Engine 1201 arrived at the fire scene a minute later at 11:25AM.
  Interior Crews had difficulty gaining access to the seat of the fire which was heavily involved in the attic area. Crews attempted to make entrance into the structures through the front door but ran into heavily smoke and flames. Freeville Engine 701 arrived at 11:32 lending her manpower to the fire scene.
  Firefighters began to ventilate the structure and gained some ground before hydrants used to supply water to the trucks went dry.
  At 12:08PM, a call went out for tankers to respond to the fire immediately from Dryden, Freeville, Groton, and McLean. Two tankers out of Cortlandville were requested from Cortland County while a request was made for Locke's Tanker to respond in from Cayuga County.
  Dryden Tanker 521 checked enroute at 12:11PM driven by FF. Adam Talbot.  Freeville 721 and McLean 1221 checked enroute at 12:11PM also. Crews on scene converted to a tanker shuttle operation. Groton 822 and Freeville 721 were the first to arrive followed by Dryden  and McLean's tankers.
  Tanker's were able to fill off a hydrant on Conger Boulevard, shuttling the water to the fire scene 3 blocks away. Additional tankers were called for at 1:10PM from Etna and Lansing Fire Departments. Homer's Engine 502 moved up to the hydrant on Conger Boulevard and assisted with filling tankers.
  The fire was under control as of 2:00PM and units remained on scene to cleanup hotspots.
All Dryden Units were clear of the scene by 4:10PM. Other units at the fire scene included Assistant Chief 563 Tom Pirko and Assistant Chief 564 Rick Young. Dryden FF. Mike Hall, LT. Troy Pudney, FF. Elizabeth Handler, and FF. Ed Bell manned Dryden Station during while crews worked in Groton.

 

  Goodbye 2011, Hello 2012!
   Another year has come and gone. The Dryden Fire Department responded to a record 281 fire calls during 2011. Out of all those calls, our volunteers averaged a three minute and fifty-nine seconds response time from dispatch to our arrival on-scene. On average, eight firefighters answered alarms.
   During the course of the year our department provided mutual aide to our neighboring departments including; Cayuga Heights, Cortlandville, Etna, Freeville, Groton, McLean, Harford, Varna and Virgil. We also helped provide Mutual Aide to other departments we rarely work with including; Brooktondale, Ithaca, Moravia, Richford, Slaterville and our members helped with relief efforts in Broome County during the flooding over the summer.
 
Thanks for another outstanding year of service and lets make
2012 another great one for our organization.
 

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