It’s time to wonder around the house and set your microwave clocks, oven clocks, radios in the bedrooms, watches, or anything else that doesn’t reset automatically back one hour this weekend due to daylight savings time change. The official change occurs 2:00 am Sunday, though everyone makes the change before going to bed on Saturday.

Also drivers are to drive with caution this Thursday, October 30th. Richland Township will be having the annual “Trick or Treat” that evening. The RTFD as well as Richland police and East Hills EMS will be traveling the streets within the township that night for the community’s safety.

This morning the RTFD went out to a report of an auto accident reported with entrapment on Scalp Ave in front of Dutch Maid Bakery. The initial dispatch came in as Geistown’s first due, but as police arrived on the scene it was reported to communications to be in the Township of Richland. This bringing the Rescue Squad and 3 Safety to the scene for the assignment. 3 Safety arrived just before the Rescue and assigned them to the basic door pop & securing the vehicle. The crew from the Rescue handled the operations quickly, as well as debris and fluids. All Richland units where placed in service without any further action being taken and headed back to 1321.

In the late evening of October 21st the department went out to a report of an auto accident with one trapped. Just finishing up from the weekly in house training session the RTFD was fully staffed and went out for the report. The Duty Chief (Ellsworth), Rescue staffed with five, Engine 1 and Engine 2 staffed with a total of five, as well as the Squad with four all went responding directly after the call went out. EMS (East Hills EMS) arrived first on the scene and confirmed entrapment with the door needing to be taken. As units arrived, it turned out to be a full tool set up and crews from the rescue as well as the engine and squad worked together to take the roof and drivers side doors completely off. Within 20 minutes, the extrication was complete and the patient was handed over to EMS to transport to the local trauma center, Command held the Rescue for clean up and returned all others back to service without any further action taken.