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GAFC 2018 Year In Review
Friday, January 11th, 2019
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For the year 2018, the Gratz Area Fire Company #1 responded to 105 calls for service. Of those 105, 7 were working fires and 1 was a vehicle accident with entrapment.Gratz volunteers completed 1,193 h...
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RIT And VEIS Training With Companies 22 And 23 At Station 21
Monday, July 30th, 2018
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For company drill tonight, company members traveled to Station 21 (Elizabethville) to use their training house for Rapid Intervention Team and Vent-Enter-Isolate-Search training. Companies 22 (Lykens)...
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Members Train On One-Man Forcible Entry Techniques
Monday, May 7th, 2018
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For company drill Monday night, members worked on one-man forcible entry skills. This was the first of two nights of forcible entry training taught by Travis Duncan of Palmyra Fire and Kyle Bertin of ...
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Junior Firefighter Shaffer Places First In State Archery Tournament
Sunday, March 11th, 2018
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Congratulations to Junior Firefighter Brooke Shaffer for placing 1st in both the High School Female Division and in Overall Female Shooters in the Pennsylvania State Archery Tournament. The Upper Daup...
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Dauphin County Fire Station 27

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Serving Gratz Borough, Lykens Township, and surrounding communities since 1924

Recent calls
PSP Pursuit Ends With Vehicle Into a Pole in Front of MIWD
Monday, July 8th, 2019
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Box 27-1 was dispatched to the 700-block of W. Market Street in Gratz Borough, in the area of the MI Windows & Doors plant, for a vehicle accident with injuries as the result of a PSP pursuit. Chief 27 and Rescue 27 arrived on scene to find the suspect vehicle having hit a telephone pole, two oc...
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Tractor Trailer and Dump Truck Accident on Luxemburg Road
Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019
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Box 27-4 was dispatched to the area of 820 Luxemburg Road in Lykens Township for an accident reported to be with entrapment and ejection involving two trucks. Chief 27 and Rescue 27 arrived on scene and confirmed the report of two trucks, a tractor trailer and a dump truck, involved, with the driver...
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Engine Runs RIT for a House Fire in Wiconisco
Tuesday, March 19th, 2019
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Engine 27 was dispatched as the Rapid Intervention (RIT) company to 178 Market Street in Wiconisco Township for a house fire. Engine 27 arrived to find first-arriving companies having already knocked down a bedroom fire in the residence and were in the process of opening up and ventilating.
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Triple Pull for a House Fire in 65's Area
Sunday, March 17th, 2019
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Engine, Tanker, and Rescue 27 were dispatched to 3235 Schwaben Creek Road in Upper Mahanoy Township, Northumberland County for a house fire. Engine and Tanker 27 proceeded to the scene, finding multiple departments from Dauphin, Schuylkill, and Northumberland counties working at the scene of a 2.5-s...
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