Monday, February 25, 2013
Incidents and emergencies handled by the Belmont Fire Department.
Cooking from afar Feb. 17 – Just after 11 a.m., Ladder 1 was sent to Weber Road to help a tenant who locked themselves out of their house all the while having food cooking on the stove top. A few crew members forced open the door and a smoking frying pan was placed out into the backyard. Malfunctioning burner burns Feb. 18 – A little past a quarter after 8 a.m., all companies – Engines 1 and 2, Ladder 1 and Rescue 1 – were sent to Gilbert Road for a fire in a fuel burner/boiler due to a malfunction. Engine 1 shut down the unit and Ladder 1 assisted in removing smoke with a fan. Outside looking in Feb. 19 – Seven minutes past 4 p.m., fire personnel came to a Channing Road house to help a person who locked themselves outside. Cooking with …
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Thursday, February 21, 2013
Incidents and emergencies handled by the Belmont Fire Department.
Snow trippin' Feb. 11 – At 1:40 p.m., Engine 1 was sent to the corner of Bradley Road and Gordon Terrace because a fire alarm street box had been "tripped" – someone had pulled the alarm. Upon investigation it was determined that a resident shoveling snow very close to the box somehow hit it with his shovel or the snow. When the department tested the box, the fire alarm was working slow. The crew made a temporary fix for the street box while calling the Belmont Municipal Light Department to take a look at town equipment. What do you serve with a bank draft? Feb. 11 – About a quarter to midnight, fire personnel rushed to a Gilbert Road two-family house for a reported building on fire. When they arrived, the occupant had just used a fire …
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Monday, February 11, 2013
Incidents and accidents handled by the Belmont Fire Department.
Alarms would have helped Feb. 6 – Eleven minutes past 3 p.m., every piece of fire equipment was sent a two-family on Pleasant Street for smoke inside the building. Crews from Engine 2 and Ladder 1 arrived to find the property owner who told the firefighters he smelled smoke while visiting the unoccupied townhouse. He opened the door for the crews where Engine 2 reported a cooking fire confined to the stove top and smoke filling the first floor which Engine 2 personnel extinguished. In addition to leaving food cooking while away, the tenant's apartment didn't have smoke or CO detectors. The property owner was told it would be best to place the devices throughout the townhouse. Gas on the menu Feb. 7 – Engine 1 took off a little past 9 a.m…
Monday, February 4, 2013
Incidents and emergencies handled by the Belmont Fire Department.
Gas on the street Jan. 29 – Fire personnel arrived on a location on Horace Road a quarter past 1 p.m. for a gas leak on the street. National Grid arrived to fix the problem. Out of date Jan. 29 – A homeowner on Harvard Drive called Belmont Fire at 3:37 p.m. after the alarm of a new carbon monoxide detector began going off. The crew from Engine 1 could not find any elevated levels of gas. Further investigation discovered that the CO detector was manufactured in 2005 and past its effective date. The homeowner was told to purchase a new CO detector but make sure the unit is not more than half-a-decade old. Who doesn't love the "Big Easy"? Jan. 30 – At a quarter past 3 p.m. (that is 15:15 using the 24-hour clock), Engine 1 was sent to a …
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Department to take over Advanced Life Support services.
In a move that will provide Belmont residents with better medical care while adding to town coffers, the Belmont Board of Selectmen approved a Belmont Fire Department proposal Monday, Jan. 28, for the department's ambulance crews to provide Advanced Life Support services beginning in July. Not only will residents who are injured or suffer from a serious medical condition receive quicker and greater care from Belmont Fire, Belmont Fire Department Chief David Frizzell said that projected revenues calculated by a study committee predicted that not only will the town's bottom line benefit from added fees, the service will pay for a new town ambulance in five years without digging into the town's Capital Budget. The town's Fire Department …
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Incidents and accidents handled by the Belmont Fire Department.
You're not coming in Jan. 23 – Just before 2 p.m., Engine 2 was sent to Spinney Terrace for a possible medical emergency. When firefighters approached the front door, the homeowner came to window by the front door, but would not allow the company to enter. "She appeared untrustful and leery of our presence outside her home," read the incident report. And due to what appeared to be the resident's poor hearing, the crew was unable to communicate effectively to her through the window nor could she hear the phone ringing when the fire dispatcher called. Finally, a helpful neighbor told firefighters the homeowner had accidentally activated her Lifeline personnel alarm in the past and wouldn't allow responders enter her house at that time. Since…
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Incidents and emergencies handled by the Belmont Fire Department.
Outside smells Jan. 13 – A dozen minutes after midnight, Engine 1 was sent to the corner of Grove Street and Unity Avenue to investigate a reported outside odor of gas in the area. But whatever the neighbors were smelling outside, the firefighters couldn't detect it. Leaking pipes Jan. 14 – Just about a quarter past 4 p.m., Engine 1 and Ladder 1 were sent to a two-family on Elm Street to handle an obvious case of a gas leak inside the house. The fire companies soon located the leak in a burner on the stove in the kitchen where gas readings were elevated. The crews turned off the stove and ventilated after a burner. With this ring I do cut Jan. 17 – A quarter past 3 p.m., a couple came into the fire station in Belmont Center seeking some …
Monday, January 14, 2013
Incidents and emergencies handled by the Belmont Fire Department.
Up in steam Jan. 6 – Just before 4 p.m., fire crews were sent to the First Baptist Church of Belmont on Lexington Street for smoke in the building. Turns out that steam from a leaking heating pipe set off a nearby smoke detector. Continued trouble on Louise Jan. 8 – Half past midnight, fire crews were sent to Louise Road for the third time in a week for a gas leak. Firefighters found that the National Grid, the gas supplier for Belmont, was working in the area. They also found an intermittent natural gas odor where the gas company was marking the street to locate the supply lines at the intersection of Louise and Emerson Street. Earlier, a water main broke flooding the street. Gas on the street Jan. 8 – At a quarter 'til 7 p.m., Engine 2 …
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Monday, January 7, 2013
Incidents and medical emergencies handled by the Belmont Fire Department.
Maximum Overdrive Dec. 30 – Just before 10 p.m., a kitchen utility on Channing Road was acting up and started flaring. The fire personnel that arrived shut off the offending stove by switching off the circuit breaker. Outside, not inside Jan. 3 – It was an early-morning call to lower Common Street when a resident discovered that they had locked themselves out of their own house. The fire department did wait until the police could verify the person on the outside should be let back inside. Alarms going off? Turn them off! Jan. 3 – Just 10 minutes 'til midnight, Engine 1 took a left out of Fire Headquarters heading to the town's tallest residential building in Cushing Square for an incident involving a natural gas leak in an apartment on …
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Douglas Rd & Louise Rd, Belmont, MA
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Continued support for same town program.
East Cambridge Savings Bank recently donated $1,500 to Belmont’s Student Awareness of Fire Education Program to assist teaching children in kindergarten through fourth grade about fire safety lessons. East Cambridge Savings Bank has been an ongoing supporter of the SAFE Program, donating $3,000 to the program with the grand opening of the Bank’s Trapelo Road Banking Center in 2011. East Cambridge Savings Bank, with over $825 million in assets, is a mutual savings bank established by Massachusetts charter in 1854, and provides both businesses and individuals with a full line of banking services.
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