Hurricane Isaias Slams East Coast
 
By Deputy Chief Jonathan Riffe
August 4, 2020
 

Hurricane Isaias kept firefighters busy at Dunkirk VFD and all across the East Coast. During the storm, the members of Dunkirk VFD ran a variety of calls including a shed fire, gas leaks, motor vehicle accidents, vehicles stranded in flood waters, trees on houses, structural collapses and a variety of service calls (flooding conditions & trees down).

Pictures are from a shed fire with extension to a house in Deale, MD. Squad 5, Tanker 5, Chief 5 & Chief 5A responded. Pictures courtesy of Deale Volunteer Fire Department. And additional pictures from a tree into a house with reports of people trapped in Apple Greene, Dunkirk MD.