Ten people were left homeless as a result of a fire in a double frame dwelling at Miner and Laurel Streets in Tremont PA on Saturday, February 6, 1954. The homeless include Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Griffiths and children, Leonard, Robert, Ronald, Betty Pane, and Sally Ann; and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Heitz and daughter, Barbara. Mr. Griffiths and Ronald were in the cellar at the time the fire broke out. When smoke began pouring into the cellar, Mr. Griffiths went upstairs and discovered the back portion of this home in flames. He summoned the Tremont fire company and took his wife and family to safety. Firemen from six fire companies battled the blaze for nearly three hours. Damage to the property was estimated at $10,000 and practically all their possessions were destroyed.
Just after noon on February 6, 2007, a produce truck making deliveries to the Lenkerville Elementary School cafeteria in Millersburg, had a mechanical failuer of its brakes. The truck rolled away, traveling between two rows of parked cars, down a large hill, and into a garage behind a residence, stopping just short of entering the house. The Millersburg fire company was dispatched and Engine 20?s crew stabilized the structure and secured the truck from further hazard by removing the batteries. An extended recovery followed, with the use of two heavy wrecker trucks. There were no injuries reported.
2007
Vehicle Accident - Clarks Valley - Rush Twp, Dauphin Co, PA
The driver of a 2005 Ford Focus was injured when the vehicle left the roadway and struck a tree on February 6, 2007. The accident occurred on Route 325 in Clarks Valley while the vehicle was traveling towards Tower City.
Following a year of exceptionally hot and dry weather, on February 6, 1851, the temperature in Victoria, Australia, reached 117?F. It was also a very windy day, with the wind strengthening throughout the morning into a fierce tornado-like wind by noon. A fire started, and, driven by the winds, wrapped the whole country in a sheet of flame. The air was darkened by volumes of smoke, and showers of sparks rained down. Farm houses, fences, crops, orchards, gardens, haystacks, bridges, wool-sheds, and livestock were swept away by the on-rushing flames, which left behind them nothing but charred heaps of ruin. People fled to water to seek shelter from the flames. Late in the evening a strong sea-breeze began to blow, driving back the heavy pall of smoke, and the next day dawned upon blackened homesteads, smoldering forests, charred carcasses of sheep, oxen, horses, poultry, and wild animals. The fire had burned the largest area in European-recorded Australian history, about 5-million hectares (19,305 square miles), a quarter of what is now Victoria. More than one million sheep and thousands of cattle were killed. Twelve people died.
1911
Constantinople Fire - Constantinople, Turkey
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