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Bangor Fire First Alarm Responses & Still Alarms
Grass/ Brush Fire - 1 Engine, 1 Rescue
Vehicle Fire - 1 Engine, 1 Rescue
Fire Alarms - 2 Engines, 1 Ladder, 2 Rescues, Fire Comm 1
Fire in Building - 2 Engines, 1 Ladder, 2 Rescues, Fire Comm 1
Vehicle Accident - 1 Engine, 1 Rescue - *Heavy Rescue Spec Call
EMS - 1 Rescue (Engine if Warranted by EMD)
Dumpster Fire - 1 Engine
Carbon Monoxide - 1 Engine
Chimney Fire - 2 Engines, 1 Ladder, 2 Rescues, Fire Comm 1
Water Related - 1 Engine, 1 Rescue, 1 boat, Heavy Rescue
Technical Rescue - 1 Engine, 1 Rescue, Heavy Rescue
Haz - Mat  - 2 Engines, 2 Rescues, 1 Ladder, Fire Comm 1, Orono FD Haz Mat Team (as needed)
Aircraft Emergency at BIA - minimum of 1 engine, 1 rescue, 1 tanker.
(more as size of aircraft requires) (may add 2 additional engines, 1- ladder, 2 additional rescues, Fire Comm 1,  Heavy Rescue, Second Ladder Command Truck in case of crash)
* This is determined by ANG Crash Rescue *
Mutual Aid - as requested
**Tank 6 Responses - All fires outside of city hydrants and mutual aid.
Alarms Above the
First Alarm
All Hands - One additonal Engine, One additional Rescue to scene
(** ANG tanker & Glenburn tanker to scene) Brewer Engine and OronoEngine to cover Central, Hire Back Chief Officer
Second Alarm - Brewer Engine & Orono Engine to scene,
(** Hermon & Hampden tankers to scene) Hermon Engine to cover Central, Veazie Engine to cover Station 5, Bangor Recall for 1 officer and 3 ffers to man Engine 2.
Third Alarm - Hermon Engine & Veazie Engine to Scene, Engine 2 cover central, Hampden Engine to cover Central.
Fourth Alarm - Engine 2 and Hampden Engine to scene, Old Town Engine to Cover Central, Glenburn Engine to cover Station 6
** = Tanker responses outside the hydrant district.
Addition Ladders and other equipment are by special call.
*All initial alarms may have other equipment added as needed for special circumstances *

Never Forget

C-Crew Tank Truck Roll-Over
Updated On: May 28, 2011

Fuel truck accident snarls traffic on I-395 in Bangor

By Jamison Cocklin and Eric Russell,BDN Staff

BANGOR, Maine — An 18-wheeler hauling 6,000 gallons of diesel fuel rolled over Friday afternoon and crashed through a guardrail on the Interstate 395 offramp to U.S. Route 202, forcing the ramp to close and prompting a cleanup effort expected to last into Saturday.

The impact of the crash punctured the attached tanker the truck was hauling and an estimated 700 gallons of the fuel was unaccounted for, according to Darian Higgins, who was on the scene for the Maine Department of Environmental Protection to assess the situation and monitor the cleanup effort.  
It was unclear what caused the accident.
Although the R.H. Foster truck was mangled from the crash and lying on its side in a ditch just off the ramp, the driver was uninjured and managed to crawl from the wreckage. He was awaiting first responders when they arrived on the scene, according to Capt. Dennis Nadeau of the Bangor Fire Department. No other vehicles were involved in the incident.
Officials did not release the name of the driver.
At around 6 p.m., crews from Clean Harbors, a local cleanup contractor, were working to raise the tanker onto its wheels with a large excavator in order to remove any fuel still left inside.  
Police and fire officials, along with the Orono Regional Response Team, a local hazardous materials crew, and representatives from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection went to the accident scene. An empty tanker truck was brought to the scene to offload 5,300 gallons of fuel from the wrecked tanker.
Higgins estimated that around 700 gallons were unaccounted for, with some remaining in the truck’s fuel tanks and the rest having seeped into the ground. The Orono Regional Response Team assisted DEP crew members in cleaning up a small amount of contaminated soil and fuel on the ground’s surface.
The next step will be to remove the contaminated soil surrounding the crash site and then backfill the area with clean soil, Higgins said. Primary cleanup efforts are expected to take place early Saturday, and Higgins said he expects them to be complete sometime the same day, which will allow the offramp to reopen.
According to Robert Tracy, executive vice president of R.H. Foster, who was also at the scene, the truck was headed to Hampden when the accident occurred. He did not know how much of the salvaged fuel still could be sold because it was contaminated with water during drilling to pump fuel from the  wrecked tanker.
Tracy said his primary concern was for the safety of the driver and getting the spill contained as quickly as possible. He said the driver was taken to the hospital as a precaution and since has been released.
The incident also closed the ramp from Route 202 onto I-395 and affected westbound traffic on I-395.  
The ramp was open to traffic Saturday morning.

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