UPDATE: Bethlehem apartment blaze started by man using lighter to ‘clean’ items, cops say A man was treated for smoke inhalation at an apartment building fire Saturday on Southside Bethlehem, and responding police reportedly helped children who were inside to escape, according to the city’s fire chief. “They were checked and they were fine,” fire …
article COLMAR, Pa. – Governor Tom Wolf has ordered all commonwealth flags in Montgomery County to fly at half-staff to honor a firefighter killed in the line of duty October 1. Edward “Gary” Minnick died October 1, as a volunteer firefighter with the Colmar Volunteer Fire Company. He was 65. Minnick served with the Colmar …
Ron Leonardi | Erie Times-News Athletes waved, shouted cheers and handed out bags filled with goodies. Band members struck up tunes. And there was no shortage of enthusiasm from cheerleading crews, whose steady display of school spirit elicited honks from a lengthy line of motorists making their way along a half-mile loop at General McLane High …
Published October 06. 2020 10:04PM A woman was taken to the hospital Tuesday with burns after she jumped from a second floor of a house on fire in Pottsville. Pottsville Fire Chief James Misstishin Sr. said firefighters found the woman on the porch at 711 W. Market St. when they arrived moments after the 1:17 …
A 31-year-old man arrested Wednesday by Lancaster Bureau of Police was charged with riot, arson, institutional vandalism, failure to disperse, and disorderly conduct for his participation in protests that erupted earlier this month over a police-involved fatal shooting. Christopher Joseph Vazquez, of Lancaster City, was arrested at his residence on the 1st block of Campbell …
A rampage through part of Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood early Thursday morning ended with a young woman being shot dead, a young man hurt and the suspected shooter killed by police officers. On Friday, Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw and other police brass addressed the deadly ordeal that led to an exchange of gunfire between the man …
SKINNER TOWNSHIP — Franklin County firefighters, state forest rangers and loggers battled a woods fire Wednesday that was sparked by a tree harvester hitting a rock on Haynestown Road, Eustis Fire Chief Sprague Wise said Thursday. Flames burn woods along steep terrain in Skinner Township in northern Franklin County on Wednesday. The fire was sparked …
HAVERFORD TOWNSHIP, PA — The fire companies serving Haverford Township and the surrounding area got a cut of $50 million in grant funds that will help offset the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The Manoa, Brookline, Oakmont, and Bon Air fire companies are getting more than $101,000 in grant funding in total. Gov. Tom …
Centerville, PA, Volunteer Fire Department CENTERVILLE, PA—Markers scrawled on the walls, cash boxes spray painted, refrigerator doors left hanging open, parts of truck bay No. 4 painted orange: The scene at the Centerville Volunteer Fire Department on Monday was a mess, according to Assistant Chief Pete Hackett. “It’s cosmetic mostly,” Hackett said of the damage. …
