Andrew joined the Fort Washington Fire Company No.1 in 1998, at the suggestion of his close friend Norm Bauer.  Since joining, Andrew has successfully completed all of his county courses and has recently enrolled in the company driver training program.  Meanwhile, he actively responds to calls from the Fort Washington Fire Company No.1 Burn Brae sub-station, located at the corner of Susquehanna Road and Twining Road, in the capacity of a “black hat”, a term used by FWFC members for a senior or accomplished firefighter.

On the administrative side of fire company activities, Krimmel has been extremely active in recent years.  After serving as the Treasurer of the Active Worker’s Association in 2006, Andrew bravely volunteered to commandeer the abruptly vacated position of fire company treasurer.  While replacing past Treasurer Kevin Richart seemed to be a formidable task, Andrew revitalized an already innovative system by streamlining the established purchasing and accounting methods.  Krimmel’s ability to simplify the process for committee chairpersons has proven to be efficient and less time consuming for both the fire company and the many vendors or service providers that we deal with on a monthly, sometimes weekly basis.  Andrew has also actively served on the policy committee, the by-laws committee, and the IT committee. 

Andrew recalls his first fire as being a non commercial structure fire on Patricia Avenue.  Krimmel remembers that Engine 88-1 was returning from a fire alarm in the industrial park when the call was dispatched.  According to Krimmel, as they were responding to the scene, the cab was silent except for the radio update that they were responding to a working house fire.  Once on scene, with black smoke pouring out of the house, Eric Clauson and Andrew advanced the charged hoseline into the black abyss and extinguished the room and contents bedroom fire, saving the majority of the structure from any more fire damage. 

Krimmel’s most memorable call was during a torrential storm when FWFC was dispatched to the corner of Delaware and Virginia Avenue for the report of an ambulance stuck in floodwater.  Upon arrival, Andrew and others entered the water and removed the patients and crew from the submerged ambulance via an inflatable rescue boat.