Kentland in the Community

 

Brian Jones Memorial

Mick McKenzie Memorial

Support Kentland

 

 
First Responders
 
 

 
The National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend
- Include this Tribute Box:
On Your Website
- Ways to Honor Fallen FFs
- Share a Memory on the:
Remembrance Banner
- For More Visit:
Weekend.FireHero.org
 

Live Audio: Courtesy Of
Live Fire Feeds

 
Kentland Apparatus
 
Engine 331

Engine 332

Rescue-Engine 33

Click Here For The Rescue

Tower 33

Mini Pumper 33

 
Image of
the day

 
Newsletter

 
Statistics

 

To advertise on our site, contact
Joe Brown at our station 301.773.6033

 
 
 
 
Full Story
 

 
 
WORKER FALLS FROM ROOF OF "NEW" LOW-INCOME HOUSING
   
   
Friday, July 1, 2005 
-
Engine 331 responded to the first of what will surely be many calls at the Overland Apartments at 75th Ave and Landover Road.  The complex was named by a construction worker who won a contest to name the complex (get it, it's Landover backwards!).  The "Overland" Apartments is a "new" HUD project being built on the grounds of the infamous 75th Avenue Apartments, which provided 33 with much excitement for years.  On arrival it was discovered that a roofing worker had fallen 60 feet from the roof of one of the buildings under construction.  The worker had sustained trauma to his chest and face and was packaged by the crew of E331 and transfered to the ambulance for transport to PG Trauma.    OSHA is investigating...

Command
  
Command