Incident Detail: 1975 Call No. 03


1975
Call No.  3
Time Out
12/26/1975
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Time In

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Type
 Structure Fire 
Location
 E. Main St, Elizabethville 


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December 26, 1975

In the early evening hours the tones dropped for a fire on East Main Street in Elizabethville. Lykens' Company 22 responded to assist Elizabethville's Company 21. With the fire being just around the corner from Elizabethville's station at the time, responding Company 21 firefighters saw flames blowing out of a second floor window of a rather large commercial building on the corner of East Main and Vine Streets. The building housed a retail clothing store on the first floor with apartments on the second and third floors and a neighboring house attached. Lead by Assistant Chief Jacque Wertz, Elizabethville's 64 Hahn attached to a hydrant two doors east of the blaze and went to work. An exterior attack with a 2?-inch line made a quick knockdown of the main bulk of the fire, giving the interior crews a few extra minutes to ready for their assault. Lines were pulled inside and the task of looking for hot spots proceeded for about an hour. While the interior crew was looking for extensions, other crews and residents emptied the clothing store stock, carrying it across the street to the Methodist Church. The cause of the fire was a television set in the living room of the Robert Sitlinger family. There was major damage, but it was repairable. It was a long night on Main Street.

Thanks to Tom Welker for the call detail.


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