Serving The Citizens Of Northeast Allen County Since 2005
Northeast Allen County Fire & EMS
P.O. Box 428
Grabill, Indiana 46741
Phone: 260-627-5133
Fax: 260-627-8953
Incident Totals for 2009
(168) EMS Call (52) Dispatched And Disreqarded (33) MVA (20) Structure Fire (16) False Alarm (12) StandBy (9) Grass fire (7) Power Line Down (7) Smoke or Odor Removal (6) EMS Assist (5) Carbon Monoxide Incident (5) Trash Fire (4) Gas leak (4) System Malfunction (4) Fire, other More...
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Northeast and St Joe big barn fire

Monday, June 15, 2009
By Shane Compton

On Monday, June 15, 2009, at 12:18 AM, units from Northeast, along with St. Joe, were dispatched to the area of Notestine @ Schwartz for a possible structure fire.  Upon arrival, Fire 71 found a 250 x 75 barn fully engulfed with flames shooting approximately 150 to 200 feet off the ground.  Fire 71 assumed I.C. and advised E-142 to lay 5 inch hose approximately 600 feet up the drive. Fire 71 also request additional resources for water supply.  Northeast would like to thank the following departments that assisted: Huntertown, Woodburn, Washington, New Haven, and St. Joe. 

Car vs Semi

Wednesday, June 03, 2009
By Shane Compton

On Monday, June 1, Northeast was called to the scene of a car vs semi accident.  While enroute, dispatch advised that one person was trapped.  Due to E-145 having been on another run, R-148 was the first truck out.  Therefore, units requested Samaritan to the scene.  Units arrived and found the driver of a passanger car trapped in the vehicle.  Medics quickly began treatment on the patients, and fire crews were able to extracate the patients within minutes.  The crew from Samaritan landed just as the patient was being moved to a long spine board.  The patient was flown to Parkview.

Helicopter Scene Safety Training

Tuesday, June 02, 2009
By Fred Spannuth

Northeast Fire & EMS hosted a Samaritan Helicopter Scene Safety program on June 2nd.  Over 53 personnel from Northeast Fire & EMS, Concord Fire, Jackson Fire and the Allen County Sheriff’s department attended the program.  The classroom portion of the training program discussed when to call for the helicopter, landing zone setup and helicopter safety.  After the classroom training the entire group went to Leo High School and setup a landing zone.  The group practiced loading a patient and explored the helicopter.  Northeast Fire & EMS gives our thanks to the on duty flight crew consisting of Brad, Bob and Jay for flying in for this important training.  Thanks also to our own Sue and Scott for setting up this training.

CPR saves life, 4 locals are heroes

Thursday, May 14, 2009
By Shane Compton

On Monday, May 11, 2009, around 8 PM Northeast Fire and EMS was dispatched to the area of Puff Road and Union Chapel Road to a jogger that had collapsed.  A minute later, dispatch advised that CPR was in progress.  When the ambulance arrived on the scene the AED was used, and the patient was transported to the hospital.  Before emergency personnel arrived on scene there were some amazing people that went out of their way to assist this person.  One neighbor, who witnessed the collapse, went to call 911 while three other neighbors ran to his aid.  When the emergency dispatcher asked if the person was breathing, the neighbors quickly realized that the person was not, so they started CPR.  With the neighbors quick actions of starting CPR, access to an AED and advanced life support care of paramedics, the doctors are expecting a full recovery.  Less than 48 hours after the collapse the patient was awake and talking to nurses.  The actions of Keith Barnes, John Binz, Sue Binz, John Halter, and Pat Schiffli changed this story’s possible outcome.   Northeast Fire and EMS believes that these neighbors are the true heroes.

Northeast has busy day

Tuesday, April 28, 2009
By Shane Compton

Northeast had a busy Monday on April 27th.  Northeast started the day with an early morning medical run, then responded with Huntertown Fire to a motor vehicle accident with reports of a driver being pinned.  The driver was trapped, and due to his condition, was flown by Samaritan to a local hospital.  Before units could get back to the station, they were dispatched to a structure fire in Dekalb County.  Several trucks from Northeast responded, along with neighboring departments.  The day didn’t end there; A couple more runs and another fire kept units busy the rest of the day.  While units were out Northeast had Huntertown, St. Joe, and New Haven on stand-by for them to cover the east side of the county.  Northeast would like to thank those departments for their assistance.

Northeast responds to water rescue

Monday, April 06, 2009
By Shane Compton

Northeast Fire and EMS responded to a water rescue that could of been more serious that it was.  A local business man attempted driving through water that was flooded over Schlatter Road.  He quickly found the water was deeper than he had originally thought.  His car stalled, and units were called to assist.  The man was not hurt, and his vehicle needs to dry out.