The 60th Annual Grantville Volunteer Fire Company Carnival

The GVFD Carnival Grounds on Fire House Road in Grantville

Thursday July 24th The Moore Brothers

Friday July 25th Pentagon & Rico and The Ravens

Saturday July 26th The Mudflaps

Gate Donation- Thursday Night Free Friday & Saturday $5.oo (16yrs or Older)

Thursday All the amusement rides you can ride for just $12.oo 7pm to 11pm

Also Thursday Night is Race Car Night Meet Local Race Car Drivers and There Cars

Entertainment Start Times- Thursday & Friday 7pm Saturday 7:30pm

And The GRAND FINALE FIREWORKS at Closing Saturday Night

-Amusement Rides-Dunking Booth-Cash Bingo-Games For All Ages-Great Food & Beverages

Bring Your Lawn Chairs RAIN OR SHINE

No Alcholic Beverages Permitted-----------No Pets Except Service Dogs

Tonight box 39-2 was dropped for a brush fire in the area of Bow Creek and Fox Run. Brush 39 with three under command of Lieutenant 39-1(T.Eiswerth) arrived to find the fire behind the mobile home park next to the Exxon. Brush 39 advised county that the best access would be Tyler St. in the Chesapeke mobile home park. Brush 39 and Brush 36-1 went to work on the North side while Engine 39-1, Tanker 39 & Attack 48 worked on the south side of the incident at the Interstate 81 south off-ramp. Crews worked on extinguishing the fire & cut a line around the fire to stop the spreading. When the fire was under control crews wetted down the whole area and cut some trees down that still had fire in them. Crews were on scene for about 2hrs. Great job by all crews and thanks to the mutual aid companies.

Around midnight Tanker 39 was dispatched to the 7000 block of Red Top Rd. in South Hanover Township to asst. Co47 with multiple vehicle fires endangering a structure. Tanker 39 with 3 under command of Chief 39-1(D.Theal) arrived and supplied Engine 36-1 and Captain 39(J.Theal) went and assisted with extinguishment and popping hoods and doors. Crews were on scene for about 2 1/2hrs. Great job by all crews and thanks to Brandon Berkhimer of South Central EMS for taking the pics.

This morning in the early  hours Co39 along with Rescue 36-1 was dispatched to Interstate 81 South just past the exit mile marker 80 for an MVA with Entrapment. QRS Lieutenant(M.Rager) arrived and found 2 vehicles 1 tractor trailer and 1 crew cab pick up. He also advised county communications that there was 3 heavily entrapped victums and 1 was a signal 12. Engine 39-1 with 3 under command of Lieutenant 39-1(T.Eiswerth) arrived and went to work along with Rescue 36-1. LT 39-1 advised county he wanted 2 additional rescues on the box bringing in Rescue 48(Hershey) & Rescue 37(Susquehanna). He also special requested for Rescue 35 (Linglestown). Crews worked on freeing both patients along with the signal 12. EMS then requested Life Lion for the rear patient. Crews took the roof and performed several other extrication methods taking 40 minutes on the driver and 1hr 20 minutes on the patient in the rear of the crew cab truck. Fire Police shut down the interstate and eventually down to one lane. Crews worked very well together and were on scene for about 5 hours. Great job by all crews and thank you to all mutual aid companies.

Congrats to Fire Fighter Bill Bird and his wife Jen in the birth of there new baby girl. Katherine Mary Bird was born around 11:00pm on 3/14/2008. She was 10lbs 6oz.. Mother is doing fine. From all of us at Grantville Fire once again congrats. Pics coming soon

Co 39 was dispatched to the Intersection of Laudermilch and Earlys Mill for an MVA with injuries. Captain 39(J.Theal) arrived to find 2 vehciles semi off the road with 2 patient refusels. Engine 39-1 arrived and took one battery. Fire police dropped the road to one lane and QRS did the refusels. Great job by all crews.

Tongiht Tanker 39 and Engine 39 were dispatched to box 36-6 for smoke in a building. Crews arrived to find normal conditions on the exterior but a heavy smoke condition from the interior. Crews later found a small fire coming from the hot water heater. Crews were onscene for about 15mins. Great job by all.

Tonight the company received a check from the Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course in the amount of $36,000 from the test nights. The money was split up between 4 charities and GVFD was one of them. Thank you to the Casino and all the people from the test nights

Tonight Engine 39-1 and the Tanker headed to HACC to train with Co35(Linglestown) on RIT opperations. Crews performed RIT operations for about 2hrs and really enjoyed themselves. Great job by all crews.

Early in the morning Co39 was dispatched for box 39-2 Mountain Rd. in the area of Angle Rd. for an MVA with entrapment and fire. Rescue 36-1 arrived to find patient self extricated and the propane truck on fire in Lebanon County making it a 12(Ono) box. Crews immediately went to work putting 2 attack lines in service on the propane truck not trying to put the fire out. Reason being if they would have put the fire out it still would have leaked going everywhere. Crews would contain the fire but not put it out for 2 days. Hazmat teams finally put rags on the tanker truck soaked in liquid nitrogen. Then crews put the propane in another truck. Great job by all crews as it took 7 counties to help with this incident. Special thanks to Lebanon Tanker 14(Neversink) and Engine 59(Lower Swatara) for standing by in our quarters. Sorry if I missed anybody on the list of apparatus.