Stations 6 & 8 fight wind fed mountain fire

Saturday, March 15, 15:08 hours. Station 6 was alerted for an outside fire in the 6000 block of Clevelandtown Rd. Upon arrival, Asst. Chief 8 (Wachter) reported 1/2 to 1 acre active brush fire and established command. Shortly after, Brush 6 arrived and began attack. With 20-30 mph winds from the southwest, the fire spread rapidly. Rescue Eng 61 officer Dorsey reconned the perimeter reporting the fire had crested the mountain and was still spreading rapidly to addresses on Moser Rd. & Old National Pike. Sectors were established and multiple tasks force assignments requested. Lt.1(Brandenburg) was assigned Sector 1, the origin area of the fire. (Deputy Chief 1 (Morgan) was assigned the Moser Rd. area where several structures were in the path of the fire, but not involved. Multiple channels were utilized through a central commander (Wachter), Duty 20 (Carpenter) EMS 1820 (Sauser), Co. 2 (Brian Lowman) handled radio communication, with Washington Co.DES (Lewis, Summers, Anderson) as well as Frederick Co.Battalion 902 (Fortney) providing logistical and command support. In all an estimated 24 + acres were involved. The fire was contained 16:30 hours. Fire declared out 20:45 hours. Last units cleared 21:21 hours