North Catasauqua's Charotin Hose Company firefighters responded to the following calls recently.

Structure fire

April 18, 6:32 p.m.

Charotin personnel were dispatched to a reported structure fire, with the Catasauqua Fire Department and Northampton Regional EMS, at an auto repair shop at Lehigh and Poplar streets. Assistant Fire Chief Erik Hirner arrived on the scene and reported normal smoke from a chimney. He held the fire department engine in the station and to stand by.

The Catasauqua Fire Department arrived and gained entry to the building, where firefighters found a wood-burning stove operating in a normal condition.

Burned food

April 26, 8:29 a.m.

The North Catasauqua Fire Department responded with four firefighters to an automatic fire alarm with the Catasauqua Fire Department at the Catasauqua High Rise, 534 Third St. Firefighters found burned food in an apartment had caused the alarm to sound.

Firefighters ventilated the apartment naturally and restored the alarm.

Brush fire

April 27, 11:22 a.m.

Charotin personnel responded with the Northampton Fire Department and Northampton Regional EMS for a brush fire along the Nor-Bath Trail, off Smith Lane in the area of the soccer fields.

Firefighters arrived to find a brush fire covering an area of approximately 25 feet by 50 feet. The bulk of the fire was knocked down quickly, using an extinguisher to prevent further spread. While wetting down the area, firefighters noticed a column of smoke further up into the woods and located a second brush fire. Too deep and inaccessible for hose lines, crews donned backpack water pump tanks and hauled water by foot to the site of the fire. A third, much smaller fire, was also located and extinguished.