Like emergency responders all across southwestern Pennsylvania, Indiana County firefighters, police, and ambulance personnel were extremely busy yesterday, responding to weather-related calls from noon and through the nighttime.
It started with a vehicle crash at 11:21 AM on Route 22 in Burrell Township, with two fire companies dispatched to the scene and two others called for traffic control.
Then the utility lines down on Route 119 in Center Township happened at about noon, with three fire companies summoned. That was followed through the afternoon by numerous calls for trees and lines down, pumping details for flooded basements, and even a call for Clyde firefighters to a structure fire in Bolivar.
Fire companies were called into action in Center Township, Montgomery Township, Young Township, East Wheatfield Township, multiple calls in White Township, Ernest Borough, Conemaugh Township, Rayne Township. Cherryhill Township, and multiple calls in Indiana Borough, with many of those calls for pumping details and several for physical rescues.
Thirteen water rescue teams from Westmoreland, Indiana, and Cambria counties were summoned for water rescues stranded by the flooding Loyalhanna Creek outside of Ligonier.
