| It was a busy day along the York Road corridor for the Gettysburg Fire Department, with crews responding to three separate incidents in nearly the same area.
At 0823 hours, GFD and Adams Regional EMS were dispatched to York Road & Shealer Road for a multi-vehicle accident. Chief 1 arrived, established York Road Command, and reported minor injuries. Fire Police remained on scene assisting PSP with traffic control until the roadway was cleared.
At 1756 hours, crews were back on York Road for another multi-vehicle accident, this time at Natural Springs Road & York Road, just down the road from the morning's accident. Chief 1 arrived to find two vehicles involved, two minor injuries, and the roadway partially blocked.
Then, less than an hour after clearing the second accident, crews were dispatched right back to the same area for a reported vehicle fire impinging upon a structure at the Gettysburg U-Haul on York Road—only a few hundred feet from the second accident.
Communications advised responding units that a motorcycle was reportedly on fire inside the rear of a U-Haul truck.
Chief 1 arrived, established York Road Command, and reported a well-involved U-Haul truck, with the fire impinging upon a second U-Haul but no involvement of the nearby structure.
Engine 1-2 deployed the front bumper line and made quick work of the fire, containing it to the original U-Haul with only minor exterior damage to the second truck. The motorcycle was a total loss as it was the origin of the fire.
The incident was held to E1-2, E33-3, Truck 1, and Fire Police, with units operating for approximately 30 minutes.
Three incidents. Two vehicle accidents. One vehicle fire. All within approximately a half-mile along York Road.
Video Credit: FF D Blocher & FF E. Cann |
