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Jackman Moose River Fire
Department
2005
Emergency Calls
Call #35: 10-17-2005 A firefighter works to extinguish
a burning cargo van. After the van
struck a moose, it caught on fire.
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* 2005 EMERGENCY CALLS TO
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42.
12/22/2005 Chimney Fire Heald Stream Road, Jackman. Creosote that leaked between the metal
chimney insert and the original brick chimney ignited and burned. The fire did not spread in to the home.
41.
12/15/2005 2 vehicle accident with two people injured, one
seriously Main Street (Rt. 201), Jackman. An unlicensed driver was traveling at a
very high rate of speed, lost control of his car, and spun sideways in
front of another car. The driver of
the second car attempted to avoid the collision, but his car ended up
striking the first car in the passenger door. The driver of the second vehicle
sustained very serious injuries and was taken by LifeFlight helicopter to Bangor for treatment.
40.
11/15/2005 Vehicle off road U.S. Route 201, Johnson Mountain Township.
A motorist drove by a vehicle off the road and placed a 911 cell
phone call advising that there was a vehicle off the road in the woods 20
miles south of Jackman. The Somerset County Communications Center dispatcher initially dispatched
JMRFD, but the fire chief advised the dispatcher that 20 miles south of
Jackman was in West Forks Fire Department coverage area. The dispatcher then paged WFFD. West Forks fire personnel responded and
after traveling several miles north towards Jackman, they requested that
the dispatcher page JMRFD to start heading south to find the vehicle in
question. Just as the first JMRFD
vehicle was leaving the fire station, WFFD personnel found the vehicle - it
had been beside the road for 8 hours.
The motorist who made the cell phone call did not stop to see that no
one was in the vehicle. The motorist
also should have noticed that based on the snow on the vehicle it had been
in that location for quite a while.
39.
10/28/2005 2 vehicle accident Main Street (Route 201), Jackman. The driver of a car slowed down because a
pickup in front of her was turning off, but the driver of a small pickup
behind the car was driving too fast and/or was inattentive and rear-ended
the car. The driver of the car and
her two young daughters in the car with her were shaken up, but otherwise
were not hurt.
38.
10/28/2005 - Fire Alarm Activation Main Street (Route 201), Jackman. A
popcorn popper in use at the school activated a smoke detector.
37.
10/25/2005 Low hanging power lines and power lines down in the road
Main Street (Route 201), Jackman and Moose River. Rain changed over to heavy wet snow that
brought down trees and power lines throughout the region. Power was out in the entire region for 2
days while numerous power company crews made extensive repairs.
36.
10/25/2005 Tree on a power line on fire Main Street (Route 201),
Dennistown. Recent heavy rains have
made the ground very soft allowing a tree to be brought down by fairly
light winds. The top of the tree
completely burned off. The fire did
not spread.
35.
10/17/2005 Small cargo van struck a moose then caught on fire Main
Street (Route 201) on the Jackman/Parlin Pond town line. On a dark, rainy, windy night, two moose
crossed the road in front of the driver of the van, with the van striking
and killing one of them. After the
driver stopped the van, he called his company on a cell phone to advise
them of what happened, then sat and waited in the van. After about 5 minutes he noticed smoke
coming from the dash, then he saw flames under the dash. He quickly left the van as the fire
spread. Another driver called 911 to
report the fire. When the fire
department arrived (the fire station is over 8 miles from this location)
the vehicle was fully involved.
34.
10/07/2005 Pickup rollover with one injured Long Pond Road
(Route 15), Jackman. The driver of
the pickup looked away to change the radio station. While changing the station the pickup
drifted off the right side of the road on to the gravel shoulder. The driver steered the vehicle back to
the left too sharply, then steered too sharply to the right. The back end of the pickup slid around
and the pickup slid sideways off the road and rolled over. While rolling the pickup struck a tree
and a utility pole. The pole broke
off and the top part landed on the pickup.
The driver was injured, but his injuries could have easily been much
worse.
NOTE:
On September 29th the area received a fairly strong wind
storm. The winds brought down
numerous trees, many of which fell across power lines and into the
road. JMRFD responded to four
serious incidents involved downed trees and downed lines.
33.
09/29/2005 Burning tree on a power line Main Street (Route 201), Moose River.
A tree broke off and fell across the three phase power line. One of the three lines broke and fell to
the ground. The tree stayed hung up
on one of the other two lines and burned until a power company crew shut
off the power and came to remove the tree.
Once the power was shut off, firefighters cleared the scene.
32.
09/29/2005 Burning tree on a power line Spruce Street, Jackman. The top of a tree broke off and fell on
the three phase power line, breaking one of the three lines off which
landed across the driveway of a residence.
The top of the tree remained on the other two lines and partially
burned where it was in contact with the lines. Firefighters moved the downed line from
the driveway and stood by until the tree top stopped burning.
31.
09/29/2005 Trees down on phone & cable wires and trees in the
road intersection of Pleasant Street and Heald Stream Road, Moose River.
The caller believed that the trees were on the power line, but where
the trees fell there was no power line.
Firefighters marked the trees in the roadway to make them more visible
to drivers until a crew could come and clear the trees out of the road and
off the wires.
30.
09/29/2005 Trees down on a power line and trees in the road
Long Pond Road (Route 15), Jackman.
Due to high, gusty winds, numerous trees fell across the power line
and across the road along a Ό mile stretch of road. Because so many trees fell across the
power and phone lines, the power line broke in one place, the neutral line
broke in two places, and several utility poles were tipped somewhat. Firefighters, a power company crew, and a
local building contractor crew spent over an hour clearing the trees from
the road so that it could be opened to traffic.
29.
09/14/2005 Structure fire Main Street (Route 201), Jackman. A fire in a local boarding house resulted
in heavy fire damage to one room, and smoke damage throughout the
building. Most of the tenants will
need only wash their clothes and clean other items and their belongings
will be fine. The cause of the fire
appears to be an unattended candle.
28.
09/12/2005 Stove fire at a local restaurant Main Street (Route 201), Jackman. In what is obviously a poor design, the
vent for a large gas stove, the top of which is a large frying surface,
opens up along the entire back of the stove top. Although there is about a 4 inch lip from
the back of the stove top to the vent, food gets accidentally knocked into
the vent. Home fries that got
knocked in to the vent caught fire.
Without taking the stove apart, it is very difficult to get food out
of the vent.
27.
09/10/2005 Car/moose accident with 2 injured Main Street (Route 201), Dennistown. The driver of the car was traveling at a
high rate of speed and was unable to avoid striking a moose that ran into
the road. The moose totally destroyed
the windshield, bent the steering wheel and bent the roof back nearly two
feet. The driver and front seat
passenger sustained numerous cuts and contusions, especially to their
faces, and the driver also suffered a broken arm. They were extremely fortunate they both
could have easily been killed.
26.
08/31/2005 2 car accident Main Street (Route 201), Jackman. The driver of one car pulling out of a
side street on to Main Street could not see another car on Main Street due
to other vehicles parked along the side of Main Street. The car on Main Street struck the car
pulling out of the side street. The
driver of the Main Street car suffered minor injuries.
25.
08/28/2005 Bark mulch fire Main Street (Route 201), Jackman. A passer by reported a small fire at the
Attean Overlook rest area, but gave no further details. The fire involved bark mulch at the base
of information displays at the rest area.
Cause of the fire was attributed to improper disposal of smoking
materials there were numerous cigarette butts in the bark mulch.
24.
08/16/2005 Fire Alarm Activation Main Street (Route 201), Jackman. For unknown reasons a smoke detector
activated. The exterior door near
the detector was open, and a nearby neighbor was working on equipment, so
smoke from the equipment might have caused the detector to activate.
23.
08/05/2005 Structure fire in a sawmill Talpey Road, Moose River. Sawdust leaked from a blower
system and piled up around the blower motor. The motor got hot enough and the sawdust
ignited. The motor, some heavy duty
wiring, and a wall were damaged.
22.
08/01/2005 Power line down Main Street (Route 201), Jackman. A truck came through and hooked the phone
line and the power line feeding the Jackman Public Library. Both wires were pulled down, and the
electrical service was completely pulled off the library. The truck driver did not stop and
witnesses were unsure which company owned the truck.
21.
07/23/2005 Pickup/woods fire Attean Ridge, Jackman. Someone stole a pickup, drove it up a
jeep trail to a communications tower, and then drove it off through the
brush and over a small, rocky embankment.
The pickup hooked one of the cables of the tower going by and pulled
down the tower. After the pickup
finally came to a stop against a tree and on rocks and logs, the ground
under it caught fire due to the heat from the exhaust system. The pickup was totally destroyed by the
blaze.
20.
07/16/2005 Alarm System Activation Main Street (Route 201),
Jackman. The alarm was caused by a malfunctioning
smoke detector.
19.
07/09/2005 Reported water rescue in the Moose River, Attean
Township. What was reported as a
possible water rescue of a boater, was actually an unattended death of a
man in his boat.
18. 07/04/2005 Structure Fire Main Street
(Route 201), Jackman. A fire started
in cardboard outside a restaurant adjacent to a wall. There was fire damage to the outside wall
of the restaurant, and there was some smoke and heat damage inside the
restaurant in the kitchen.
17. 06/11/2005 Fire Alarm Activation - Main
Street (Route 201), Jackman.
Immediately following the graduation ceremony at the school, the
alarm system activated. The probable
cause was several people smoking right outside a door that was open with a
smoke detector just inside the door.
16.
05/28/2005 Structure Fire Main Street (Route 201), Moose River. For reasons yet to be determined, a fire
started in the laundry room of the home while the owner was not home. Fire damage was limited to the laundry
room with some fire damage in the living room and kitchen. There was extensive heat and smoke damage
throughout the home.
15.
05/11/2005 Extinguishment system activation Main Street (Route 201),
Jackman. For unknown reasons, the
fire extinguishment system over gas pumps at a local convenience store
activated and completely discharged the dry chemical extinguishment
agent.
14.
04/27/2005 Tree on a power line on fire Route 201, Parlin Pond
Township. On a rainy, windy night, a
tree partially blew over and touched a power line off and on. When the tree touched the power line,
there was a lot of sparking and flames.
The fire did not spread.
13. 04/11/2005 Chimney fire Main Street
(Route 201), Moose River. A very hot
fire burning a lot of material in a large chimney in an old farmhouse took
firefighters nearly two hours to completely extinguish. Firefighters used a special chimney
snuffer nozzle to slowly add water to the chimney so that the bricks would
not crack and fall apart.
12. 03/29/2005 Car rollover Main Street
(Route 201), Jackman. Snow started
falling and building up as slush in the road. The driver of the car coming down a hill
last control of her car in the slushy snow, the car slid across the two
lanes going in the opposite direction, went into the snow bank on the side
of the road, and rolled over completely one time coming to rest on its
wheels. The driver sustained only
minor injuries.
11.
03/21/2005 Reported structure fire Main Street (Route 201),
Jackman. The homeowner decided to
burn an old building, but failed to obtain a burning permit. At least two passers by made 911 cell
phone calls to report a structure fire.
The homeowner was summonsed for burning without a permit and will
have to pay response costs for the fire department.
10.
03/19/2005 Snowmobile accident Spencer Road, Parlin Pond Township. A snowmobiler traveling down a plowed
logging road went off by a bridge and struck a rock. The snowmobiler was seriously
injured. LifeFlight helicopter was
brought to the location to fly the injured snowmobiler to a hospital in
Bangor.
9. 03/11/2005 Reported tree stump on fire
along a snowmobile trail, Jackman.
When firefighters questioned several snowmobilers who had been on
the trail, none saw anything, so the call was deemed to be unfounded. The cell phone caller who placed the
original 911 call did not answer his phone when the dispatcher called back
for more info.
8. 02/11/2005 Pickup-Logging Truck Crash
Main Street (Route 201), Sandy Bay.
In near white out conditions a south bound pickup coming down hill
and a north bound logging truck going up the hill sideswiped, with the
result being extensive damage to the pickup and the logging truck going off
the road into the ditch and rolling over on to its side. Neither the driver of the logging truck
nor the driver and passenger of the pickup were hurt.
7. 02/08/2005 Utility Pole Fire Main
Street (Route 201), Jackman. A
cracked insulator caused the top of the utility pole to catch on fire and
plunge the region into darkness.
Power was out in most of the region for over an hour while power
company crews made repairs.
6. 01/31/2005 Snowmobile accident ITS
89, Jackman. A snowmobiler making a
sharp turn accidentally squeezed the throttle instead of the brake
propelling her snowmobile into small trees.
JMRFD used the fire departments snowmobile and rescue sled to bring
the snowmobiler out one mile to the awaiting ambulance.
5. 01/27/2005 Snowmobile accident Big
Wood Pond, Attean Township. A
snowmobiler traveling at a high rate of speed hit a berm on the ice, and
his snowmobile flipped causing him to fall off and hit his head. He was fortunate and only suffered minor
injuries. Although firefighters
brought the rescue snowmobile and sled, the ambulance could get to within
250 feet of the patient so he was hand carried to the ambulance.
4. 01/19/2005 Fire Alarm Activation Main
Street (Route 201), Jackman.
Plumbers doing work at the Jackman Region Health Center accidentally
activated the fire alarm system.
3.
01/15/2005 Snowmobile accident club trail, Moose River. A snowmobiler was blinded by the low sun
and went off the trail striking a tree.
Initially she was knocked out, but soon recovered. She injured an arm and a leg, but neither
injury was severe. JMRFD used the
fire departments snowmobile and rescue sled to bring the snowmobiler out
one half mile to the awaiting ambulance.
2. 01/15/2005 Snowmobile accident ITS 88,
Bald Mountain Township. A
snowmobiler approached an intersection too fast and rolled his sled. He sustained some injuries to his back
and neck but fortunately the injuries were not too severe. JMRFD used the fire departments
snowmobile and rescue sled to bring the snowmobiler out 5 ½ miles to the
awaiting ambulance.
1. 01/03/2005 Chimney Fire Giroux
Street, Moose River Creosote that had built up in the upper portion of
the chimney ignited. Firefighters
quickly extinguished the fire with a chimney fire snuffer nozzle. There was no damage to the house. (The chimney fire snuffer nozzle is a
specially designed heavy nozzle that sprays a fine mist of water just enough
to absorb heat and extinguish a fire but not enough to crack the chimney
and/or the chimney liner. The nozzle
is heavy so that it can be used to break through plugs of material in the
chimney.)
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