Large pile of wood chips burns in Adams Center NY
Photo by Adams Fire DepartmentAdams Truck 1-8-1 moving tower into position.
Photo by Adams Fire DepartmentAdams Truck 1-8-1 applying water to the wood chip pile.
Photo by Adams Fire DepartmentSmithville Tanker and Adams Center Engine 2-1-1 supplying water to the tower.
At 8:14 PM November 25, 2024 the Jefferson County 911 Center dispatched Adams Center Fire Department to 19023 NY State 177 in the Town if Adams for an outdoor fire at Elliott's Tree Service with Adams Fire Department as Automatic Mutual Aid.
Adams Center Fire arrived to find a very large pile of wood chips on fire. A plan was established by Adams Center Assistant Chief Joe Lees to move Adams Truck 1-8-1 into a position to knock down as much fire as possible from its tower.
Mutual aid was requested from Rodman, Smithville, Lorraine, and Town of Watertown Fire Departments for tankers to shuttle water along with Adams Center and Adams units. Smithville Engine 41-4-2 was requested to establish a tanker fill site at a pond on Greene Street in the hamlet of Adams Center.
Responding units:
Adams Center engine, tanker , rescue.
Adams 2 engines, rescue, truck, squad.
Smithville engine, tanker,
Rodman 2 tankers.
Lorraine tanker
Town of Watertown tanker.
Units were on scene for approximately three hours.
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