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Jackman
Moose River Fire Department
2002
Emergency Calls
Call #39: 09-23-2002 - Logging truck
rollover and fire
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JMRFD responded to 47 emergency
calls in 2002, breaking the old record of 41 calls set in 1999 (and again
tied in 2001).
2002 will go down as a very, very
busy year for JMRFD with numerous major incidents.
47. 12/20/2002 Multiple accidents Main
Street (Route 201), Dennistown.
Rain started to fall on the very cold road surface, and the result
was instant icing. In one stretch
of road one large truck went off the road into the woods, another large
truck slid off the road and rolled over, another large truck slid partly
off the road, another large truck spun around in the road, an SUV slid off
the road and rolled over, and several other smaller vehicles slid off the
road. Amazingly no vehicles
collided and no one was hurt.
46. 12/5/2002 Chimney fire at the local
lumber mill Talpey Road, Moose River.
Apparently creosote had built up inside the 30 foot tall chimney
from the waste wood boiler and the creosote ignited. Mill employees noticed flames seven to
ten feet high coming out of the top of the chimney so they called the fire
department. When the fire
department arrived on scene 8 minutes after the call, the fire had gone out
and the creosote was gone.
45.
12/03/2002 Structure Fire Long Pond Road (Route 15), Jackman. A fire of accidental origin began in the
basement late at night. The house
is heated with a large wood furnace, and the furnace, located in the
basement, is tall enough so that it almost touches the floor joists. Over time, dust, etc. accumulated on the
top of the furnace, and some of that material ignited. The fire then spread from the ignition
material to the sub-floor and floor over the furnace. The fire was contained to a small
section of two floor joists, a small section of sub-floor, and a small
section of the floor.
44.
11/29/2002 Single vehicle rollover On a logging road less than a half
mile off the Long Pond Road (Route 15), Long Pond Township. The roads were very slippery and the
driver was operating his vehicle too fast for the conditions.
43.
11/29/2002 Single vehicle off the road Long Pond Road (Route 15),
Jackman. The roads were very
slippery and the driver was operating his vehicle too fast for the
conditions. His vehicle spun around
in the road and went off the road.
42.
10/31/2002 Pickup/moose accident and rollover Main Street (Route 201),
Sandy Bay Township. A driver of a
northbound pickup attempted to miss a moose in the road, swerved, struck
the moose, and the pickup rolled over completely one time and landed
upright in the ditch. The driver
was uninjured.
41. 10/30/2002 Alarm activation Main
Street (Route 201), Jackman. An
alarm technician, who was working on the alarm system, failed to notify the
security agency that monitors the alarm system. When the alarm system was activated the security agency
immediately contacted the Somerset County Communications Center to dispatch
the fire department.
40. 10/15/2002 Structure Fire Long Pond
Road (Route 15), Jackman. A fire of
accidental origin began in the living room in the early morning hours. Firefighters used only a few hundred
gallons of water to completely extinguish the fire. There was heavy fire damage in the
living room, and some fire damage in the kitchen and hallway. There was smoke and heat damage
throughout the building.
39. 09/23/2002 Logging Truck rollover and
fire Main Street (Route 201), Sandy Bay Township. A northbound logging truck went off the
road, rolled over, and caught on fire.
The driver either managed to get out of the vehicle himself or was
helped out by others, then someone took him to Canadian Customs on the
Quebec side of the border. Others
arrived on scene soon after and found a burning truck and no one else, and
thus believed that the driver was still inside the truck. They called 911 to report the
accident. When the fire department
arrived on scene, 12 minutes after the 911 call (the accident scene was 8
miles from the fire station), the firefighters found the cab of the truck
heavily involved with fire with no chance of survival for anyone still
inside. A few minutes later the
fire department was notified that the driver was in Quebec and not in the
truck.
38. 09/22/2002 Report of structure fire in
the vicinity of Moose River Lumber Company, Town of Moose River. A visitor at Mountainview Resort saw
what he thought was smoke and flames looking north from the resort, so he
called 911 to report a structure fire.
After spending some time searching for a fire, the fire department
determined that what the visitor saw was fog coming off the river with the
lights of the mill in the background appearing through the fog as flames.
37. 09/10/200 Rekindle of September 8th
structure fire Hastings Road, Jackman.
Although there had been no fire or smoke evident for over 30 hours,
and a fire investigator and insurance adjuster had been all over the
remains of the building without detecting any hot spots or smoke, high
winds and hot weather fanned some embers to life and the structure
re-ignited.
36. 09/09/2002 Small forest fire off the
Old Spencer Road in Upper Enchanted Township. Eight days before a camp owner had lit an outdoor fire in a
rock fire pit that he had made.
Although the camp owner took the time to make a good fire pit, he
failed to scrape off the layer of duff on the ground down to mineral soil
so when he had his fire 8 days before the fire burned underground and only
now came back to the surface in surrounding vegetation. NOTE:
Due to a severe drought, fire conditions in this region are very
high to extreme. Most open burning
is now prohibited.
35. 09/09/2002 2 car accident with one
person injured Main Street (Route 201), Jackman. A vehicle with a driver and passenger
was stopped by traffic waiting to turn into a local business. Another driver did not notice the
stopped vehicle until too late and struck it from behind. The passenger in the vehicle that was
struck was slightly injured.
34. 09/08/2002 Structure Fire Hastings
Road, Jackman. A fire of accidental
origin originated in the living room of a home in a rural area, and due to
high wind and the windows of the house being open, the fire quickly
grew. A resident of the home was in
her room reading when she heard the smoke detector go off. She walked out of her room to find the
living room on fire. She left the
home with a portable phone and called 911 to report the fire. The first fire truck arrived on scene 7
minutes later to find the main part of the home fully involved, with the
fire endangering an attached 3-car garage.
The fire department was able to stop the spread of the fire and save
the garage. During the fire there
were numerous small spot fires throughout the woods around the home due to
very dry conditions. The likelihood
that a forest fire would be caused by the house fire was high, but due to
the efforts of firefighters and numerous volunteers, all spot fires were
rapidly extinguished.
33. 09/02/2002 Called to assist the
ambulance crew with man found not breathing back in the woods, off mile 8
of the Hardscrabble Road (aka the Spencer Road), Bradstreet Township. The Jackman Region Health Center
received a call about a man down in the woods not breathing. The Jackman Area Volunteer Ambulance
Corps was dispatched, and they requested that the fire department also be
dispatched to assist. When the
ambulance crew arrived on scene the man was deceased and had been for at
least a half hour. The ambulance
crew then advised the fire department to cancel.
32. 08/29/2002 Bicyclist down and hurt
Moose River Bridge, Main Street (Route 201), Jackman. A bicyclist was crossing the bridge at
night on the sidewalk that had been damaged earlier in the day by the truck
rollover. The bicyclist either hit
some of the debris or attempted to avoid it fell off her bike and hit her
head on the pavement. The
firefighters were at the station a short distance away in a meeting when a
passerby reported the accident. The
firefighters went to the scene to direct traffic and assist the ambulance
crew with the victim.
31. 08/29/2002 Truck rollover Moose
River Bridge, Main Street (Route 201), Jackman. A truck loaded with rolls of paper (42 rolls that weighed
just over 1,000 pounds each) approached the bridge too fast (the bridge is
on a curve) and tipped over on the bridge.
20 of the rolls of paper fell into the river. In all it took 7 hours to remove the
rolls of paper, the truck and clean up the oil and fuel that leaked out of
the truck.
30. 08/21/2002 Forest fire off the
Brassua 2 road in Thorndike Township.
Thunderstorms came through the area on the 18th with
little to no rain. The result has
been numerous lightning strike fires popping up all over the region.
29. 08/19/2002 Reported forest fire the
shore of Attean Pond, Attean Township.
A truck driver spotted smoke from the Attean Overlook on Route 201
and reported a possible forest fire on the shore of Attean Pond. The fire department was dispatched by the
Somerset County Communications Center but the fire chief immediately
questioned the location and asked for further details. In fact, what the truck driver saw was a
forest fire a few miles south of Attean Pond, and the Maine Forest Service
was on scene of that fire.
28.
07/29/2002 Reported car rollover Main Street (Route 201), Jackman. The incident was actually a car that did
a 360 in the road when the driver avoided striking a moose. Neither the driver nor his passenger
were injured. However, both left
wheels of the car were flattened in the spin.
27.
07/09/2002 Report of escaped burn Main Street (Route 201),
Jackman. An individual lit an
illegal burn barrel fire. (The fire
was illegal because (1) the individual had no burning permit, (2) since
September 2001 burn barrels are not legal to use under Maine law, and (3)
the individual was burning plastic, rubber, etc., none of which are legal
to burn.) The fire escaped from the
burn barrel and ignited debris, grass, plastic pails, etc.
26.
07/01/2002 Report of vehicle rollover US Rte 201, Parlin Pond
Township. The Maine State Police
(MSP) received a cellular 911 call about a rollover. The MSP notified the Jackman Region
Health Center (JRHC) but failed to notify anyone else. JRHC dispatched the Jackman Ambulance
and notified the Somerset County Communications Center (SCCC). SCCC paged out the Jackman Moose River
Fire Department, then contacted MSP for more details. After contacting MSP two times, SCCC
found out that the accident was actually located south of West Forks. JMRFD cancelled their response and the SCCC
paged out the West Forks Volunteer Fire Department.
25.
06/30/2002 Report of smoke in building Main Street (Route 201),
Jackman. A compressor for a walk-in
freezer at a local restaurant overheated, and shorted-out. The short produced lots of smoke and
some flames. Employees of the
restaurant turned off the power to the compressor and the fire went
out. JMRFD examined the compressor
and determined that as long as the power to the compressor was not turned
back on, there would be no further problems.
24.
06/27/2002 Structure fire Holeb Road, Holeb Township. A fire started in one of the 21 camps
that make up Holeb village. Prior
to the fire departments arrival on scene (it took the fire trucks one hour
to travel 18 miles to Holeb village because the road is in poor condition),
a second camp caught on fire.
Neither camp could be saved.
23.
06/21/2002 Single vehicle rollover
Main Street (Route 201), Jackman.
On a straight stretch of road the car drifted across two southbound
lanes, went off the road, hit a rock, went airborne, landed and rolled over
one time landing back on the wheels in the ditch. The driver was injured.
There were no passengers in the vehicle.
22.
05/14/2002 Vehicle off road with one person injured US Rte 201, Johnson
Mountain Township. A passerby using
a cell phone reported that an escort vehicle (for an over-sized load) slid
off the snow-covered road into the ditch.
The passerby did not know if anyone was injured. The driver was in fact injured. Drivers of other vehicles in the group
took her to the hospital in Skowhegan.
They failed to report the accident to the authorities.
21.
05/11/2002 Illegal camp fire that escaped in an old gravel pit off of
logging road route 6, Long Pond Township.
Local high school students went out for the annual camp out and
party. They lit a large campfire
(without a permit), and the fire started to progress up a vegetated bank of
the gravel pit. A deputy sheriff
arrived, the kids took off, and the deputy had the fire department called
to extinguish the fire before the fire progressed further.
20.
05/11/2002 Capsized canoe with 2 people in the water Parlin Pond,
Parlin Pond Township. A group of
college students came up to go whitewater rafting. Two of them decided to go out canoeing
at 1am. There was a very strong
wind blowing and the temperature was in the upper 30s. The canoe capsized. One of the two managed to swim to shore
in 45 minutes and report the accident.
Someone called 911, while others took out a boat to look for the
second victim. The fire department
and local ambulance service responded, and the second victim was pulled
from the water by the boaters about 10 minutes after the arrival of the
rescuers. The first victim was
hypothermic and was transported to the Jackman Region Health Center, was
treated, and released. The second
victim was in better shape and refused treatment.
19.
04/28/2002 Single Vehicle Rollover Main Street (Route 201),
Jackman. During a snowstorm a
vehicle being driven up hill too fast for the snow-covered roads, slid off
the road and rolled over once landing upright. Both the driver and the passenger sustained injuries. Both were transported by the Jackman
Area Volunteer Ambulance Corps to the Jackman Region Health Center for
treatment, then a ambulance from St. Georges, Quebec came to Jackman to
transport both of them to the hospital in St. Georges.
18.
04/04/2002 Reported tree down on wire that started a grass fire Long
Pond Road (Route 15), Long Pond Township.
A crew from the railroad was burning grass along the railroad. They left an area being burned
unattended for a while and a passerby thought that it was a wildfire.
17.
03/10/2002 Structure fire Long Pond Road (Route 15), Long Pond
Township. A fire started in a home
in the vicinity of the woodstove.
The owner of the home was not at home when the fire started. A passerby noticed the flames and
stopped at a neighbors house to report the fire. Due to fire, heat and smoke damage, the home is considered to
be a total loss.
16.
03/07/2002 Chimney fire Nadeau Street, Jackman. Alternating periods of mild, damp
weather and cold, dry weather have made for ideal conditions for the buildup
of creosote in chimneys. As a
result, many chimneys cleaned last fall are now loaded with creosote and
are ready to ignite. If you burn
wood you should check your chimney now for the buildup of creosote, and if
any buildup of creosote is evident, you should clean the chimney.
15.
03/05/2002 Fire alarm at the Jackman Region Health Center Main Street
(Route 201), Jackman. Burnt toast
activated a smoke detector and set off the alarm system.
14.
03/01/2002 Chimney fire with smoke in the building Bartley Street,
Jackman. A chimney fire in an old
chimney with crumbling mortar resulted in smoke pouring into a house. Initial thoughts were that there was
fire in several different walls, but after careful review of the situation
and constant temperature measurements with a Mini-Temp temperature gun, it
was determined that there was no fire in the house.
13.
02/28/2002 Reported car stuck in a snowbank that was a possible hazard to
other traffic US Rte 201, Parlin Pond Township. The car had been pulled out by another motorist prior to the
FDs arrival on scene.
12.
02/27/2002 Log truck rollover Main Street (Route 201), Jackman. During a snowstorm a truck went off the
right side of the road and rolled on to its side, spilling the load of
logs. The truck was heavily
damaged. The driver was not
hurt. (The driver of the truck, a
Canadian, hitched a ride back to Quebec without reporting the accident or
notifying anyone that he was ok.
Rescue personnel, initially unable to find the driver, feared that
the driver might have been under the truck or the logs that spilled out of
the truck.)
11.
02/20/2002 Fire alarm at a motel Main Street (Route 201), Jackman. The alarm system was being tested but
those who were doing the testing failed to notify the security agency that
monitors the alarm system.
10.
02/20/2002 Fire alarm activation at Forest Hills Consolidated School -
Main Street (Route 201), Jackman.
9.
02/19/2002 Snowmobile Accident on Big Wood Lake, Attean Township. Two snowmobiles collided on the lake
resulting in injuries to two boys.
A 12-year-old boy had multiple fractures in one leg, and a
15-year-old boy had a broken collarbone.
Both boys were transported by the Jackman Area Volunteer Ambulance
Corps to the Jackman Region Health Center for treatment. The 15-year-old boy was released
following treatment at the Health Center; the 12-year-old boy was
transported to a hospital in Waterville for further treatment.
8.
02/09/2002 Snowmobile Accident ITS86, Moose River. Someone with a cell phone reported the
accident, which apparently occurred in the JMRFD coverage area. While JMRFD was searching the reported
area of the accident, information came through that the victim was being
moved to another location, which was in Rockwood Fire Departments coverage
area. RFD was paged out and went to
the location indicated where the victim was reportedly being brought
out. After RFD waited a few
minutes, the victim arrived at that location. The victim had a possible broken ankle and a problem with her
shoulder. She was transported by
the Jackman Area Volunteer Ambulance Corps to the Jackman Region Health
Center. She was released following
treatment at the Health Center.
7.
02/07/2002 Motor Vehicle Accident Holeb Road (logging road), Dennistown
Plantation. On a snow-packed
logging road, on a corner, on a hill, a car slid into a logging truck. The truck driver (driving up hill)
attempted to avoid the collision by driving into the snow bank. Both the driver of the car and the
passenger in the car were injured.
The two accident victims were transported by private vehicle to the
Jackman Region Health Center for treatment. Both were treated at the Health Center and released.
6. 02/05/2002 Reported chimney fire Main
Street (Route 201), Dennistown Plantation.
Chimney was mostly plugged causing smoke to back up into the house -
there was no fire in the chimney.
5. 01/22/2002 Snowmobile accident 1.5
miles in on a trail off Route 201, Parlin Pond Township. The operator of the snowmobile suffered
serious injuries. He was
transported by the Jackman Area Volunteer Ambulance Corps to the Jackman
Region Health Center for emergency treatment. He was then airlifted from Jackman by LifeFlight helicopter.
4. 01/14/2002 Fire in the chipper room at
the local lumber mill Talpey Road, Moose River. Damage was limited to two exterior walls.
3. 01/13/2002 Motor Vehicle Accident
Long Pond Road (Route 15), Jackman 1 vehicle went off the road and rolled
over completely one time the driver was severely injured. There were no passengers in the
vehicle. The injured driver was
transported by the Jackman Area Volunteer Ambulance Corps to the Jackman
Region Health Center for emergency treatment. Lifeflight Helicopter was called to transport the patient to
a critical care facility, but due to poor weather conditions in the
mountains around Jackman, the helicopter had to turn around in mid-flight
and go back to its home base. The
patient was then transported by ambulance to Eastern Maine Medical Center
in Bangor.
2. 01/11/2002 Motor Vehicle Accident
Main Street (Route 201), Jackman 1 vehicle went off the road and rolled
up on the drivers side no injuries.
1. 01/06/2002 - Motor Vehicle Accident
(MVA) Main Street (Route 201), Sandy Bay Township - 1 vehicle went off
the road - no injuries
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