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enjine16 Send Email
Dec 1, 2003
1:08 pm
Harrisburg, Pa. 1869- 2:30 p.m. Third and Market Streets. Attic burned out and roof badly damaged at the C.S. Roshon photographic establishment. The fire...
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Dec 2, 2003
1:03 pm
Harrisburg, Pa. 1866- 1:30 a.m. State Street and Pennsylvania Railroad. Warehouse owned by a Mrs. Antes was destroyed along with the office of C.M. Tunis,...
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Dec 3, 2003
1:03 pm
Harrisburg, Pa. 1907-December 3rd During the wee hours of the morning at 2:13 a.m. Box 131 at Fourth and Walnut Streets began to clang out on the tower and...
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Dec 4, 2003
12:44 pm
Harrisburg, Pa. 1844- Cumberland Valley Railroad bridge destroyed west of Hargest (City) Island in a very spectacular fire. Hand drawn, hand pumped fire...
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enjine16 Send Email
Dec 5, 2003
11:50 am
Harrisburg, Pa. 1890-Box 51 at 1:00 a.m. Cameron and Muench Streets. Richard Schmiele’s butcher shop totally destroyed. Cause or loss not given. No other...
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enjine16 Send Email
Dec 6, 2003
11:58 am
Harrisburg, Pa. 1993-During the evening and night of December 5, 1993, Deputy Chief Roy J. Sheely of the Lower Allen Township Fire Dept. answered eight alarms...
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enjine16 Send Email
Dec 7, 2003
12:29 pm
Harrisburg, Pa. 1892-At 7.30 p.m. Box 6 was struck for a fire in the two hundred block of Briggs Street. Fire swept through the attics and upper floor...
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Dec 8, 2003
12:46 pm
Harrisburg, Pa. 1866-December 8th 10:30 p.m. East State Street near Poplar Lane.(Present location is Fisher Plaza-western approach to the State St. Bridge)...
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Dec 9, 2003
1:20 pm
Harrisburg, Pa. 1876-Box 61 at Second and Cranberry Ave. was struck at 3:30 p.m. Front and Cranberry Streets. Residence of Daniel D. Boas, Esq. The interior...
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Dec 10, 2003
1:06 pm
Harrisburg, Pa. 1887-Box 24 at Sixth and Cumberland was pulled at 7:30 p.m. for a fire at Sayford and Wyeth Streets. The frame stable owned and occupied by...
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Dec 11, 2003
11:50 am
Harrisburg, Pa. 1899-Box 63 was pulled at 8:55 p.m. for a fire in a large old vacant frame building owned by the Harrisburg Pipe Bending Company along the...
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Dec 12, 2003
1:25 pm
Harrisburg, Pa. December 12th 1988-At 1257 hrs. 1321-23-25-27-29 Thompson St. Row of three story vacant frame dwellings. An arsonist started fires in several...
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Dec 15, 2003
1:10 pm
Harrisburg, Pa. 1873- 7:00 p.m. Cherry and Dewberry Alleys (present site between Morrison Towers and Pa. Place) Three story frame building owned by Henrietta...
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Dec 16, 2003
1:03 pm
Harrisburg, Pa. 1863- Seventh and Calder Streets. Large frame blacksmith shop attached to the roundhouse of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Fire, discovered at...
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Dec 17, 2003
1:13 pm
Harrisburg, Pa. 1896-December 17th. At 9:55 p.m. Box 24 at Sixth and Cumberland Streets came in for a fire at 1137 N. Sixth St. A one story cigar store of...
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Dec 18, 2003
12:20 pm
Harrisburg, Pa. 1992- At 1738 hrs. an alarm was transmitted for 430 S.13th St. Heavy smoke was pouring from the second floor of this occupied three-story...
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Dec 19, 2003
11:31 am
Harrisburg, Pa. 1839-River Street near Blackberry Alley. Frame structure occupied by George Bryan as a carpenter shop and owned by William Graydon, Esq. was...
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Dec 20, 2003
11:06 am
Harrisburg, Pa. 1886- Box 31 located at Third and Reily was pulled at 4:25 p.m. A defective flue was located in a dwelling on Marion Street near Reily. Damage...
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Dec 21, 2003
12:58 pm
Harrisburg, Pa. 1905-At 9:30 p.m. Box 63 at Seventh and North Streets was pulled for a slight trash fire in the yard of the Dauphin Cigar Company along the...
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Dec 22, 2003
12:29 pm
Harrisburg, Pa. 1992- At 0551, fire was reported at 2131 Derry Street. Arriving companies found a heavy smoke condition banking down in the street....
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Dec 23, 2003
12:45 pm
Harrisburg, Pa. 1884-At 9:30 p.m. an alarm of fire was transmitted for Fourth and Market Streets. A show window and contents at the Dives, Pomeroy & Steward...
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Dec 24, 2003
12:53 pm
Harrisburg, Pa. 1813-River Alley near Strawberry St. Fire believed to have originated in a weight foundry or adjacent stable was discovered at 2:30 a.m. and...
1734 chiefhank
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Dec 24, 2003
5:02 pm
HOOOO HOOO HOOOOOOO!!! I'd like to take this opportunity to wish all of you and your loved ones a very merry and fire-free Christmas. Be safe, be happy, easy...
1735 william noonan
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Dec 24, 2003
6:52 pm
SAME to YOU!! and I do have to work Christmas night...thanks..you also be safe...BILL ... Take advantage of our limited-time introductory offer for dial-up...
1736 Richard
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Dec 24, 2003
6:59 pm
Thanks from all of us who will, be with our families. Eating that last piece of turkey and pumpkin pie. But keeping an ear to the monitor. It's a good feeling...
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enjine16 Send Email
Dec 25, 2003
12:06 pm
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! Over the years for whatever reason a lot of us will reminisce about "the big one on Christmas Day". Fires occurring on this day, and...
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Dec 26, 2003
12:07 pm
Harrisburg, Pa. 1998-1844 hrs. 310-12-14-16 Granite St. Row of three story frame vacant houses. Fire originated in the second floor of 314, attributed...
1739 doctax2 Send Email Dec 27, 2003
6:55 am
I am trying to locate information on my Grandfather "Michael D. Curtin", a New York City firefighter who died fighting a fire around 1915... the google search...
1740 Richard
rich3784 Send Email
Dec 27, 2003
7:36 am
Good Luck this is the place to start... Do you know what station he was with. His badge number? ... From: doctax2 [mailto:doctax@...] Sent: Saturday,...
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Dec 27, 2003
12:36 pm
You may want to contact the folks at www.nyfd.com they may have that kinda data. Ed Harvey Fire Servce Photography...
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