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enjine16 Send Email
Aug 1, 2005
11:30 am
Harrisburg, Pa. 1993- At 0143 hrs. 130B S.25th St. Kline Village Shopping Center-. Hornung’s Tru-Value Hardware Store. Large two store brick 150 x...
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Aug 2, 2005
8:52 am
Harrisburg, Pa. 1923-Box 19 at Cameron and Kittatinny was pulled at 6:05 a.m. for a smell of smoke in the Compression Tire Company storeroom at 343 S....
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Aug 3, 2005
10:47 am
Harrisburg, Pa. 1996- 0214 hrs. 1923-25-27 N. Second St. Large three story duplex made into apartments. Fire gutted the second floor south side of 1925 with...
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Aug 4, 2005
2:40 pm
Harrisburg, Pa. 1872-12:15 a.m. (0015 hrs) North of Herr Street east side of Pennsylvania Railroad.(Today’s location is to the railroad(west) end of J....
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Aug 5, 2005
11:22 am
Harrisburg, Pa. 1997-1239 hrs-2509 Waldo St. Two and a half story frame vacant house. Well involved on arrival. Getting water on the fire was delayed due...
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Aug 7, 2005
10:04 am
August 6th 1989-2031 hrs. 209-11 Kelker St. Three story brick occupied row. Fire started in a TV in the second floor middle bedroom of 211. Bedroom...
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Aug 8, 2005
11:46 am
Harrisburg, Pa. 1887-Box 41 located at the Philadelphia & Reading Depot(today’s location is the parking lot is between the Market Street subway and the...
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Aug 9, 2005
11:53 am
Harrisburg, Pa. 1999-1531 hrs. 1830-32-34-36 State St. Two large three story brick duplexes. An arson fire was started from a domestic fight in the back/side...
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Aug 10, 2005
10:58 am
Harrisburg, Pa. 1931-Box 212, Seventh and Hamilton was struck at 1:35 a.m. for a stubborn fire which gutted the second floor and damaged the roof of a...
2532 Jesse Shutt
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Aug 11, 2005
3:47 am
2003: Box 29-6 @2124hrs. 111 Market Street, Halifax Borough for a Structure fire. Brush fire started by a person burning trash in their back yard, spread to...
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Aug 11, 2005
11:29 am
Harrisburg, Pa. 1897-At ten minutes past noon, Box 41 located at the Philadelphia & Reading depot, 8th and Market, was struck for a fire at 431 Market St....
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Aug 12, 2005
11:32 am
Harrisburg, Pa. 1997-2337 hrs-1516-18 Regina St. Three story occupied dwelling. First and second floors of 1516 were gutted. FF's Dan Soulier, Bob...
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Aug 13, 2005
12:04 pm
Harrisburg, Pa. 1887-Box 5 located at Cowden and State (today this would be about the middle of Soldier’s Grove to the rear of the state buildings) was...
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Aug 14, 2005
12:42 pm
Harrisburg, Pa. 1808-Vicinity of Front and Paxton Streets. The barn of a Mrs. Hanna was destroyed along with a horse, grain and hay. This fire was believed...
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Aug 15, 2005
10:28 am
Harrisburg 1899-A call was received by the mayor in the evening hours for assistance from West Fairview. The grain elevator owned by Levi Brandt of...
2538 Jesse Shutt
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Aug 15, 2005
4:49 pm
1953: Sparks from a rubbish fire ignited the end of a garage building of the home of H.A. Kimmings north of town. The Millersburg Fire Company responded and...
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Aug 16, 2005
11:27 am
Harrisburg, Pa. 1890-Box 63 at 5:55 p.m. Briggs Street and Pennsylvania Ave(Today this would be 7th St. between North and Forster) Fire at the lumber yard...
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Aug 17, 2005
11:44 am
Harrisburg, Pa. 2002- Alarm was transmitted at 1545 hrs. for a fire at 21-21½ Evergreen St. Arriving companies found heavy smoke showing from a three story...
2541 Jesse Shutt
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Aug 17, 2005
8:59 pm
1957: A fire of unknown origin destroyed a summer house and badly damaged a house on the Mrs. Fred Margerum farm in Washington Township. The alarm came in at...
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Aug 18, 2005
10:20 am
Harrisburg, Pa. 2000- 0653 hrs. 909-11 N. 16th St. Three story brick occupied duplex. Fire in the second floor rear of 909 with extension to the third...
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Aug 19, 2005
11:42 am
Harrisburg, Pa. 1887-At about twenty minutes past midnight an orange glow was discovered in the vicinity of Mifflin and Hamilton Streets. Two different...
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Aug 20, 2005
11:02 am
1987 – 1554 hrs. 1705-07-09 Green St. Row of three-story frames. Fire started in the first floor living room of 1707 and rapidly spread to the second...
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Aug 21, 2005
4:03 pm
1991-Borough of Mechanicsburg 313 S. Market St. Rakestraws Ice Cream. Mid-to-late afternoon. Four alarms and special calls involving most ...
2546 Jesse Shutt
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Aug 21, 2005
10:04 pm
1956: During a server electrical storm, lighting stuck a barn on the Miles Meredith farm in Matamoras, in Halifax shortly before 10 p.m. The Halifax and...
2547 Matthew Mummert
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Aug 22, 2005
2:13 am
It's all history now whether it was an hour ago or a century ago. Keep up the good work. Matthew Mummert...
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Aug 22, 2005
11:32 am
Harrisburg, Pa. 1953-During this warm summer evening, a passerby noticed smoke issuing from the three-story brick warehouse of the M. Cohen & Son junkyard at...
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Aug 23, 2005
11:38 am
Harrisburg, Pa. 1888-Box 34 at Sixteenth and Derry was hooked at 1:55 p.m. The fire was located at Eighteenth and Vernon Streets.(Pretty good run to that...
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Aug 24, 2005
11:39 am
Paxtang Pa. 1894-Fire was located in the Paxtang Presbyterian parsonage on Wilhelm’s Lane in the Borough of Paxtang. The fire badly damaged the second...
2551 Jesse Shutt
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Aug 25, 2005
1:00 am
1953: The barn of Fred Kocher a mile east of Curtin, on Millersburg Road, was destroyed by fire, along with much machinery in the barn. Firefighters from...
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Aug 25, 2005
11:28 am
Harrisburg, Pa. 1862-Sixth Ward east of Ridge Road (N. Sixth St above Reily somewhere-at this time there were no street addresses.) 10:30 p.m. Row of almost...
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