The woman who called in this morning’s fire in Langhorne was located by firefighters moments after she lost consciousness and was rescued by first responders from a second floor bedroom with help from 911, police, and firefighters at the scene.
An unidentified first responder source shared the closely held information with Lower Bucks Source shortly after the blaze at three story residential home was brought under control. Penndel-Middletown Fire Chief Frank Farry mentioned firefighters rescued individuals from the burning building without specifically mentioning the team work between the operations center and firefighters on the ground.
The source said dispatchers, police, and fire personnel “all worked together to get that” to rescue that woman from further harm.
The first responder source said, imagine being the 911 operator on the phone, the caller passes out, and they can hear firefighters taking the door down and the radios getting louder and the the firefighters find the unconscious woman and get her out. In firefighting, that’s as big as it gets and why we do the job we do.
Those reports became were confirmed by a social media post from the Parkland Fire Company a short while ago.
Credit: Ron Roberts
“At this morning’s three alarm fire in Langhorne, Chief TJ Stressman, Firefighter Bruce Bartleson and Firefighter Tiffany Cameron, without the protection of a hose line made entry to the second floor and effected the rescue of a female victim who was later transported to Temple University Hospital. Awesome work!”
The fire, which broke out just after 5 am Saturday, went to three alarms before being brought under control at about 8:10 a.m.
In the three-alarm fire in Langhorne early Saturday morning, one person was airlifted to Temple University Hospital and five others are being treated for injuries. Pennsylvania State Police and Middletown Twp are investigating the fire.
There was one fatality with a total of three rescues two of which were sent to burn units, officials said.
Responding fire companies were Langhorne-Middletown, Penndel, Parkland, Wm Penn, Lower Southampton, Northampton, Southampton, Newtown, Yardley-Makefield, Fairless Hills, Falls Twp., Newport, Newportville, Trevose, Third District among others.
The blaze is being investigated by state police and Middletown Twp authorities.
Credit: Ron Roberts