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Wed. Dec 23rd 2009
ATM Open for Business

The State Employee's Credit Union ATM is complete. It has not been easy. First were the set-back rules that had to be ad...

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Tue. Mar 10th 2009
Junoir Firefighters visit Firefighting Museum

Brendletown Fire and Rescue's Junior Firefighters visited the Catawba County Firefighter's Museum on March 10th. The Juniors ...

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Brush Attack 756
2007 Ford F550 4X4 The newest addition to Brendletown's fleet, 756 responds first due to any woods, brush, or grass fires within the district. 756 also has medical equipment and responds to first responder calls within the district. It carries 400 gallons of water and has an auxillary engine driven pump rated at 300 gallons per minute. The unit has an around the pump foam system and a nozzle on the front of the unit which is controlled inside the cab. 756 is housed at station 2 on Conley Road.


RTV
2006 Artic Cat This unit is used to rescue injured patients that may be off road. Recently, it was used to rescue a hunter who had fallen over a mile off road. This unit is also used on woods fires as a support unit moving supplies and personel around the fire line.


Pumper Tanker 759
2002 International / Pierce 759 is our first out engine from station 2 for structure fires and Motor Vehicle accidents with entrapment. 759 also responds to car fires, fire alarms, and other motor vehicle accidents. It has a pump rated at 1250 gallons per minute and its tank holds 1250 galons of water. A "Combi-Tool and power unit are assigned to this unit to assist in motor vehicle accidents were patients are trapped or pinned. This tool is similar to the common "Jaws-of-Life"


Pumper Tanker 751
1997 Freightliner / EEI 751 is housed at station 1 on US 64. It is first out on structure fires in district. 751 carries 1250 gallons of water and the pump is rated at 1000 gallons per minute.


Pumper Tanker 752
1992 GMC / EEI 752 is housed at Station 2. It responds first out to mutual aid requests to neighboring departments. 752 holds 1000 gallons of water and pumps at 1000 gallons per minute. It carrys 1200 foot of 4 inch supply hose. 752 is also the unit we respond to long distance requests for assistance. It has responded to the City of Asheville, Rutherford County, Spruce Pine, and several responses to McDowell County.


Service Tanker 753
1986 GMC Pierce 753 responds as both a tanker and a service company within our district. It is our secondary option for mutual aid requests outside our district.


Rescue 757
1985 Ford F350 Rescue 757 responds to all wreck calls within the district. It carries a wide range of extrication tools. AMKUS cutters, spreaders, rams, airbags, RES-Q jacks, saws-alls, air hammer, numerous handtools and wooden cribbing. It is a huge tool box on wheels.

Recent Calls

Sun. Jan 10th 2010
Mobile Home Fire

Brendletown Fire and Rescue responded with Engine 752 and manpower to a mobile home fire in Salem's district. The fire c...

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Fri. Nov 27th 2009
Structure Fire on Bollinger's Loop

Around 11:40pm on Friday November 27th, Brendletown Fire and Rescue was alerted to a house fire on Bollinger's Loop. Salem Fi...

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Sat. Aug 22nd 2009
MVA with possible Entrapment

On Saturday morning around 4am, Brendletown Fire and Rescue was alerted to a Motor Vehicle Accident with possible entrapment ...

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2010 Call Volume

	Fire	EMS
January	8	21
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Total	8	21

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