On Sunday Morning, October 17th at approx. 5:45am, The Mattydale Fire Department was activated to respond as RIT to a reported fire in North Syracuse.

Initally dispatched as a car vs. building MVC, police units arrived to find the vehicle into the building and on fire, with the fire spreading quickly into a church annex on the property.  The assignment was quickly upgraded adding Moyers Corners and Mattydale to the alarm.

NSFD Car 1 arrived and reported a working fire with fire through the roof of the structure.  NSFD inital units arrived and started extinguishment efforts.  Mattydale Rescue 1 and MCFD E-32 arrived together and were tasked with assisting with fire attack while the I/C upgraded the event to a second alarm requesting 2 more engines and a truck company.

Mattydale Rescue 1 (Lt Piccolo) arrived on scene with 7 interior firefighters and went to work pulling a 2 1/2" handline and making entry into the building as the I/C requested another RIT.  As initial companies exited for new SCBA bottles, Mattydale crews manned the lines, at one time operating 3 separate lines.  Over all the operation went well with multiple departments operating for several hours on scene.

Rounding out the MFD crew were:

P/C Jim Whitehead (driver)

P/C Tim Sikora

FF/EMT Bryan Schad

FF Phil Falise

FF Mike Dolson

FF/EMT Dave Fitch