Hundreds of acres of trees and brush were burned in a fire that was set by an arsonist on Berry and Broad Mountains. The fire burned a 3 mile long stretch between Loyalton to near Lykens. 400 firemen battled this blaze. No loss was given. Elizabethville's Tom Welker remembers:For several days walking home from the Lykens Elementary School, Lykens was enveloped in a smoky haze. We used to stop at Mom Bellons Restaurant for a Coke on the way home to wash the smoke down. I remember my Dad and the Guys driving around in the 41 International checking houses in Glen Heights and the West end of town on Railroad Street. The glow on the Mountain was spectacular at night. The neighbor took us for a ride down the Minnichs Hit road and came out in Muckleratz. Big Flames could be seen on Sheepshead.
At the request of Lykens Police Department, Engine-22 was dispatched to extinguish a small camp fire located to the rear of the Energy Misers building in the 600-Block of Main Street. Engine-22 responded with a crew of six and found several vehicles parked around a small camp fire in the back yard, with police on the scene. The crew used a PW to extinguish the fire and went available.
Box 24-2 dispatched class one to the Twin Valley Alliance Church at 9781 Route 209 in Williams Township for an automatic fire alarm. Dispatched were Company 24, Truck 22, and Schuylkill Engine 647. Tanker 24 responded with 5 and placed Truck 22 and Engine 647 in service before response.
An explosion and a flash fire occurred at an antiques exhibition in Todi, Italy, on April 25, 1982, killing 33 people and injuring dozens of others. Many people jumped from the roof of the four-story building onto mattresses piled up below.
2005
Plastics Plant Fire - Cobourg, Ontario, Canada
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