On the afternoon of Saturday, April 13, 1867, Patrick Flynn and John Sheehan were burned by firedamp in the Lykens Valley Mines. Mr. Sheehan was very badly burned, his skin hanging in strings from his body when he was brought out of the mines. He lingered in great agony until death released him from his suffering on Monday, April 15th. Mr. Flynn was not so badly injured, but his burns were serious.
Two 17-year-old girls were burned when flames engulfed a tent where they were sleeping in the back yard of 147 Pioneer Road, Turkey Run, PA. The fire started around 4 a.m. when they knocked over a candle in the tent. One of the girls was transported by life-flight helicopter to Lehigh Valley Medical Center, near Allentown. Most of the burns occurred while the girls were trying to pull burning blankets out of the tent, to save it. Ironically, the tent was borrowed from a friend, who had saved one of the girls after she collapsed from fumes during a fire in which she lost her Girardville hom on July 4, 1999.
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