VIDEO: One week after containing an explosion and monitoring a gas leak, four departments met at the Beaver Volunteer Fire Department for a debriefing of the situation.
“We had representatives from the Beaver Fire Department, Ghent Volunteer Fire Department,” said Beaver Volunteer Fire Department Public Information Officer Will Davis. “I believe that we had a 911 operator that was there. We had someone from Jan Care that was there.”
The crews were able to go through what went right at the scene…
“The communication, right off the bat,” Davis said. “We had units on scene to describe what was going on so that the units that were in route would have an idea before they got there.”
In addition to where improvements could be made, specifically with getting all responding units to the same communication channel.