Firefighters are battling a fire at a market in Lancaster County. Ephrata Pioneer Fire Company made a social media post around 5 a.m. confirming the unit along with multiple fire departments responded to Martins Country Market located at 1717 W Main Street for a second alarm fire. Continue reading on PennLive.com
Fire companies from across central Pennsylvania responded to the report of an explosion and fire at a home in Swatara Township on Monday morning. Swatara Fire Co. 91 reported being called to the fire around 10 a.m. in the 600 block of Garden Drive, which is off Chambers Hill Road. Continue reading on Penn Live
Firefighters are battling heavy flames and smoke Monday morning after an overnight explosion at a Lancaster County hotel. The explosion happened around 2:36 a.m. at the Bird-in-Hand Family Inn on the 2700 block of the Old Philadelphia Pike in Leacock Township, Pennsylvania State Police said. Continue reading on Penn Live
The National Weather Service has issued a statement highlighting an elevated risk of fires for Tuesday. The same conditions were in place on Monday and we had a couple brush fires in the Susquehanna Valley. Continue reading on WGAL
One man has died after a fire broke out in Northumberland County Friday morning. Officials said the fire occurred just before noon on Turbot Avenue, Delaware Township. Continue reading on WBRE
The Red Creek Wildlife Center in Schuylkill County was destroyed and many animals killed in a Monday morning fire, officials confirmed. Red Creek lost its main clinic in Schuylkill Haven and all of the animals housed there during a “catastrophic” blaze, the rescue wrote on Facebook. Continue reading on PennLive.com
SUNBURY – A state police fire investigator has ruled the Oct. 29 fire in Sunbury that killed a mother and her young son was accidental. The fire started in the kitchen area near the stove but the cause remains under investigation, a trooper reported Tuesday. Continue reading on PennLive.com
Firefighters on Monday morning were still trying to extinguish a fire that broke out late Sunday and destroyed a recycling warehouse in Lebanon County, according to WGAL-8. The fire began around 10:30 p.m. at Consolidated Scrap in the 300 block of North 14 Street, with an explosion also reported, according to WGAL-8. Continue Reading on … Read more
HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — Central Pennsylvania has been burned by fires this winter. On Monday, 25-year-old Kelsey Shields died in a fire in Elizabethtown, and a Carlisle woman jumped out of a second-floor window to escape flames. “Having something like this happen in a small, tight-knit community definitely takes its toll,” Elizabethtown police Chief Edward … Read more
Crews responded to a three-alarm fire at an apartment building in Lancaster County early Friday morning. Firefighters were dispatched just after 1 a.m. to the Kensington Club Apartment off of Wabank Road in Lancaster County, WGAL-TV reports. There have been no reports of serious injuries as a result of the fire. About 50 people were evacuated … Read more