Kings fire reports - as of October 29

October 16 at 5:40 a.m., the Berwick and District Fire Department responded to a medical assist call to Prospect Rd. in Morristown. Before units arrived, they were cancelled by EHS and returned to the station.

October 21 at 12:20 p.m., Berwick responded to a two-vehicle accident on Brooklyn St. in Somerset. Three people were transported to Valley Regional Hospital with non-life treating injuries. Fire crews closed the highway for the safety of the emergency workers while the area was cleared of vehicles. Firefighters were released at 1:25 p.m.

October 23 at 9:55 p.m., Berwick was called out for a tree on power lines near the intersection of Cottage and Maple streets in Berwick. As firefighters arrived, they found the tree had fallen across the road and ripped the power line away from the main line. Fire officials called Berwick Electric and Public Works for assistance.

Later, at 12:35 a.m., firefighters were called to Pleasant Valley Rd. for another tree on power lines, then determined to be phone and cable lines. The Department of Transportation was called to clear the road and provide traffic assistance. Fire crews returned to the station at 12:55 a.m.

As crews were closing down from this call, they were called back to the first call on Cottage and Maple. The tree that had fallen earlier in the evening was split in the center and was a public safety issue. The tree had to be cut down and fire crews provided lighting. The tree was removed and power restored by 4:18 a.m., at which time fire crews called it a day.

October 25 at 12:37 a.m., Berwick responded to 28 Lawrence Rd. in South Berwick for a smoke condition. The homeowner reported the lights were flickering and smoke detector was sounding with intermitting beeps. Firefighters checked the home and found a faulty ceiling light. Ffirefighters returned to the station at 1:42 a.m.

Firefighters are busy this week preparing for a pancake breakfast hosted by Valley emergency services (Berwick Fire, RCMP and EHS) and sponsored by Price Choppers at the fire station Nov. 3 from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m.. The breakfast is a freewill offering, with all proceeds going to the local Christmas Mommies and Daddies. For info, contact Capt. Brian Taylor, Berwick Fire, 538-7424; or Cst. Scott Macleod, Berwick RCMP, 538-3666.

The Waterville and District Fire Department answered a number of alarms over the past four weeks. September 26, a single vehicle rollover in Cambridge required firefigthers to attend at 15:31. The vehicle backed into the ditch. Crews returned at 16:35.

September 27 at 20:23, a brush fire was reported off Rafuse Road in Waterville. Due to initial reports, mutual aid was called from Berwick and Kentville; however, aid was cancelled before arriving on scene. The fire had burned down when firefighters arrived. It turned out to be a controlled, permitted burn. Crews were back at 21:32.

October 9, WDFD received a fire alarm at 10:49; however, it was cancelled shortly after.

October 10 at 14:24, there was a motor vehicle collision on Prospect Road. Crews returned at 15:25.

October 11 at 9:17 a.m., a possible carbon monoxide alarm sounded at a Cambridge residence. Crews attended and took necessary action before returning at 10:04.

WDFD volunteers have just completed the fall auctions - the most successful in the 50-plus years the department has hosted them. Firefighters sincerely thank the community for this support.

If the calls for assistance keep coming in as they have been, the Kentville Fire Department will respond to a record-setting number in 2007. Over the past few years, the department has averaged about one call per day. The most calls recorded in one calendar year is 374. As of Oct. 26, Kentville had already responded to 317 calls so far this year, still with 66 days to go in 2007.

Chief Shawn Ripley said Kentville responded to a call about a woman getting her arm caught in a piece of machinery at Dominion Produce on the Northville Road Oct. 20. Firefighters helped free her.

Kentville firefighters responded to a fire alarm sounding at Valley Waste Resource Management in the Kentville Industrial Park Oct. 20.

Kentville responded to a hot water heater malfunctioning on Highway 12 around 8 p.m. Oct. 20.

Kentville firefighters responded to a single vehicle rollover in Steam Mill Oct. 21 around 3 a.m. Firefighters cleaned up a gas spill from the truck, but the driver fled the scene.

Kentville assisted EHS paramedics with a case of cardiac arrest on Highway 12 at Murphy Lake Oct. 21.

Kentville firefighters helped free a woman with her fingers caught in an ATM at the Coldbrook RBC at around 7 p.m. Oct. 21.

Kentville answered a false smoke alarm at Valley Waste Resource Management in the Kentville Industrial Park Oct. 22.

Kentville firefighters responded to a pile of burning leaves smoking out neighbours in Hayes Subdivision in Coldbrook Oct. 22.

Kentville provided lift assistance to EHS paramedics trying to get a patient from the upstairs of a house in North Alton Oct. 23.

Firefighters barely had a chance to finish that call before heading to the scene of a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of Aldershot and Lanzy roads. No one was injured, but firefighters had to clean up a fluid spill.

Also that day, Kentville was called to an apartment fire in Hartlen Court in North Kentville. The cause was careless smoking on a deck: someone apparently left a smoldering cigarette butt in a plastic pot that ended up catching a coffee table on fire and burning the deck. Ripley said some kids who saw this unfolding climbed the deck and threw the burning materials off before the fire could spread further.

Kentville responded to a single-vehicle collision at the intersection of Mee Road and Scott Drive Oct. 24 at 1:06 a.m. A car left the road and clipped a power pole. The driver fled the scene.

Kentville responded to a fire in the kitchen of a Belcher Street home Oct. 25. A woman was cooking when she had a fall and couldn’t get up. The food began to smolder, filling the house with smoke, and started to catch fire just as the woman’s daughter arrived. Paramedics treated the woman at the scene and firefighters provided ventilation.

Kentville firefighters responded to a campfire in a gravel pit on Brooklyn Street Oct. 25. There was no one tending the fire when firefighters arrived.

Greenwich responded to two motor vehicle collisions in front of farm markets last week: a two-vehicle collision in front of Noggins Corner Farm Market Oct. 20, in which a pregnant woman was transported to hospital as a precautionary measure; and a two-vehicle collision in front of Avery’s Farm Market Oct. 21. Two or three individuals were transported to hospital for observation and one car was extensively damaged.