CHFD EMT Recognized for 28 Years of Service

At the Monday, November 26th Cherry Hill Township Council meeting, Cherry Hill Fire Department Emergency Medical Technician, Lynne Weinstein was recognized for her long service to Cherry Hill. Beginning in April 1979, Lynne became an EMT with the, since dissolved, CHEMS, or Cherry Hill Emergency Medical Service. During her tenure, Lynne served on various committees and as Board Secretary for some time. Lynne also endured, during her tenure, several organizational changes; ending with the integration of emergency medical services into the Cherry Hill Fire Department in 2003. Lynne’s involvement and support during this time made the integration smoother.

According to her colleagues, Lynne’s service as an EMT in Cherry Hill can be summed up by a single word: compassion. Lynne’s devotion as an Emergency Medical Technician was not only experienced by her patients, but also by her fellow EMTs and the emergency medical services as she took every effort to make positive changes for emergency responders. We wish Lynne well in all her future endeavors.

Cherry Hill Ladder Tower Rescues Tree Worker

A Ladder Tower Truck, Rescue Truck, Ambulance and a Battalion Chief were dispatched to the 100 block of Ashford Road in the Wexford Leas section of the to to a report of a tree service worker trapped sixty feet in the air in a disabled aerial lift truck at about 11:00AM. The crew from the ladder tower quickly evaluated the situation and carefully placed their truck in the driveway of the home so that it would be able to make the rescue from the tree truck that was off the roadway in the homeowner's yard. Since the area was not large enough to set up the Ladder Tower; the Rescue company provided lumber to support the outriggers of the ladder that were not on a solid surface. The ladder tower's crew quickly raised their platform to the tree service truck bucket and safely transferred the stranded worker to the ladder tower platform and brought him down without injury.