Pikesville Volunteer Fire Company

The snow began falling in Pikesville around 11 p.m Friday night., and shortly afterwards, PVFC crews began a busy weekend of calls during what would turn out to be the largest snowfall ever recorded in Maryland during the month of December. PVFC volunteers staffed the engine, squad and medic throughout the entire weekend, running more than 50 combined medic and suppression calls without missing any responses. 

 Company 32 was alerted with other units for a reported motor vehicle crash with injuries on I-695 between exits 21 & 22. While enroute, units from station 14 (Brooklandville career) advised they had a multiple vehicle crash with 5 patients and requested additional EMS units; Squad 322 discovered another crash on the Beltway and requested a medic unit for a Priority 2 patient. IV325, diverted from the first MVA, responded to assist the squad. Around 11 a.m., BCoFD EMS 5 advised Fire Dispatch of an MVA with injuries on the Inner Loop of I-695 between exits 22 & 23. PVFC Medic 325 & BCoFD Engine 14 responded to assist, and the medic transported a patient to GBMC. 

 On Sunday afternoon, PVFC Engine 321 was assigned on the 2nd alarm for a building fire at Heaver Plaza, in Lutherville. Companies were on the scene of heavy smoke in an 8-story commercial building with a fire in an elevator shaft. The engine's crew assisted with ventilation. Later on Sunday afternoon, PVFC Engine 321 and Squad 322 responded with other units to Fire Box 50-16 for a reported dwelling fire at 2304 Valley Ridge Drive in Chestnut Ridge's first due. Engine 321 arrived with nothing evident, then upgraded to smoke showing on the interior of the house. After further investigation units from Company 32 found a closed damper on a fireplace and ventilated the structure. 

 Sunday afternoon also found PVFC crews responding to a possible building collapse in the company's first-due. Engine 321, Squad 322, Medic 325 and Confned Space Team 32 responded to a reported deck collapse with entrapment at a house on Colby Road. Units from Company 32 arrived to find a two-story dwelling with complete collapse of the rear deck. The patient had self-extricated prior to the fire department's arrival but sustained a serious leg fracture and was transported via Medic 325 to Sinai Trauma. 

 On Sunday evening, Engine 321 responded as the first due engine to a reported electrical fire on Brookmill Road (Box 2-23). Arriving with nothing showing, the engine crew laid 400 feet of hose and its crew went inside to investigate, where they upgraded to smoke on the interior. It was determined that one of the home's occupants plugged a phone charger into a wall outlet and suffered an electrical shock, the charger flew out of the outlet, the wall caught on fire and the patient's fingers were severely burned. The occupant attempted to smother the fire using his mattress which then caught the bed on fire. Firefighters quickly extinguished the small fire and the patients was transported by BCoFD Medic 19 (Garrison) to Bayview Burn Center.