House Fire in Baden

April 8, 0917 hrs

On this wet Saturday morning, Truck 3 (82) was dispatched to 17800 Croom Rd for the house fire in Co. 36’s first due. Truck 3 responded with 4 volunteers on the run and was the first arriving special service. While responding on this run, Command asked who the first due special service was and Truck 3 advised command that they were on the scene as the first arriving special, however were ignored by command. The OIC of Truck 3 went to the Command post to do a face to face and advise the Incident Commander that they were on the scene as the first arriving special service, and was still ignored by the Incident Commander. After being blatantly ignored by the P.G. Command staff, the OIC of Truck 3 met up with the officer from Co. 40 and worked hand in hand with them opening up walls and helping the crews from 40 attempt an interior attack shortly after the crews were pulled out of the building and an exterior attack was ordered. Truck 3 remained on the scene for approximately 2 hours.