Dundalk, MD 3rd Alarm - 7/27/13

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This continues the tradition of at least one multiple-alarm fire in the region during the Firehouse Expo.  I was glad to buff this one with my Dad, a Fire Bell Club of New York board member who was visiting for the weekend.


 

We got there about 30 minutes into the call ...

 

 

      Since the NJ State Firemen's Association moved its convention to Wildwood from Atlantic City in 1975, there has been a number of years with multiple alarm fires during that weekend often destroying one of the Boardwalk landmarks.   This doesn't happen every year but it has happened a lot.  Unfortunately in the years when there is no big fire there is often another tragedy such as a drowning in the ocean.   Then there are those weekends when there are neither but the weekend falls during something like Hurricane Floyd in 1999 or the same week as 9/11/2001.

 

     BTW, since I've never been to the Firehouse Expo not even when it was close by in Philadlephia in the early 80's, I am curious as to how many people attend it.   I know that the Lancaster County Fire Expo at Harrisburg usually has 20,000 + admissions during its 3 day run each May.   Our convention often attracts 25,000 people who are there from Thursday afternoon to Sunday morning.