1904-During the afternoon a fire started from an unknown source in the common wall partition of 1950-52 N. Seventh Street.? One of the occupants of the houses...
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enjine16
Oct 2, 2009 11:12 am
1890-During the pre dawn fire was discovered shooting above the rooftops of Leedy’s brickyard off Nineteenth Street near Derry in Swatara Township. Someone...
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enjine16
Oct 3, 2009 2:49 pm
1930-At 4:18 in the morning, Harrisburg’s firemen were awakened by the tolling of the firehouse tower bells for Box 45 located at Fifth and Walnut Streets. ...
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enjine16
Oct 4, 2009 11:21 am
1911-Sometime during the morning the Camp Curtin No. 13’s hose wagon, the Reily No. 10’s combination hose and chemical wagon plus the ladder truck,...
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jshutt_131
Oct 5, 2009 4:30 am
82 years ago.... 1927: A two story frame house on the Louis Anthony farm in Armstrong Valley, a quarter mile from the Mountain House, was destroyed by fire....
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enjine16
Oct 5, 2009 10:21 am
1967-At 4:49 a.m. someone discovered heavy smoke issuing from the rear of the Broad Street Hotel located at 334-36 Verbeke Street and ran to hook Box 325 at...
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enjine16
Oct 6, 2009 10:37 am
1866- 11:30 a.m. Fulton and Colder(Calder) Streets. Two story frame house occupied by a Mrs. Jane Boyle. The interior badly damaged and all the...
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enjine16
Oct 7, 2009 10:42 am
2001-? The Reverend Dennis Snider, Chaplain of the Harrisburg Fire Department accepted a Chaplaincy in a hospital in LaCrosse, Wisconsin.? As of this date he...
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jshutt_131
Oct 8, 2009 2:26 am
31 years ago..... 1978: A fire started by sparks from a welding torch damaged stored materials at the new addition sire of the Halifax Middle School. The...
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Oct 8, 2009 4:22 am
104 years ago..... 1905: At 4:19 a.m. on this foggy October morning, about a mile south of Millersburg on the Northern Central Railroad line, a freight train...
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enjine16
Oct 8, 2009 10:46 am
1890-Box 41 located at the Philadelphia & Reading Depot, Eighth and Market(present location is the lot beside the Patriot News Building) was struck at 3:15...
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jshutt_131
Oct 9, 2009 4:32 am
33 years ago.... 1976: Fire broke out at Matters Texaco on Main Street in Lykens during the early morning hours. The building was in full blaze as Volunteers...
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enjine16
Oct 9, 2009 11:04 am
1908-At or about 5:30 p.m. a fire started by either carelessness of an employee with a match or smoking material or by spontaneous combustion ignited...
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enjine16
Oct 10, 2009 10:49 am
1989-1955 hrs.? 1201 N. Front St.? Linden Terrace.? An automatic fire alarm was received for this eleven story high rise for the elderly for Apt 810.? Occupant...
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jshutt_131
Oct 10, 2009 9:14 pm
11 years ago.... 1998: At 04:40 hours county communications toned out Box 23-1, 220 Pottsville Street, Wiconisco, for a structure fire. A first alarm ...
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enjine16
Oct 11, 2009 11:17 am
1988-1137 hrs.? Nos. 118-20-22-24-26 Evergreen St. Three story frame occupied row. Fire started when a pan of grease in the kitchen of 122 overheated and...
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enjine16
Oct 12, 2009 11:15 am
1903-At shortly after 7:00 p.m. fire broke out in the one story frame boiler house of the Boll Brothers bed and mattress factory at Tenth and Mulberry...
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enjine16
Oct 13, 2009 11:15 am
1912-Smoke was found oozing from the rear of the two and a half story frame dwelling at 654 Sayford Street around 2:40 a.m. by someone that ran to Seventh and...
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enjine16
Oct 14, 2009 11:21 am
1908-Someone pulled Box 5 at State and Cowden in the old Eighth Ward at eight minutes before 10 a.m. on this day. The fire was located at the general...
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enjine16
Oct 15, 2009 10:46 am
1912-Two days after the fire on Sayford Street, at just before 2:30 in the afternoon a match concealed in an old mattress ignited and the mattress and...
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jshutt_131
Oct 16, 2009 4:36 am
101 years ago.... 1908: Lykens Borough, North Second Street. Fire broke out at the property of George Spangler on North Second Street on October 16, 1908 at...
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enjine16
Oct 16, 2009 11:09 am
1988- 1621 hrs. 1209-11-13 Market St. Three story brick row. Fire originated in third floor apartment 1211-13, from kids playing with matches igniting...
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enjine16
Oct 17, 2009 11:01 am
1874-1:45 a.m. Broad(Verbeke) and Penn Streets. The bakery and an adjoining small building that were owned by George Orth were destroyed in a spectacular...
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jshutt_131
Oct 17, 2009 8:50 pm
117 years ago.... 1892: Lykens Borough, Main Street. Fire occurred at Joseph Bowman's on Main Street at 12 o'clock noon. The Liberty Hose Company responded and...
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enjine16
Oct 19, 2009 11:25 am
1993- At 0214 hrs. the members of the B Platoon were roused from slumber by the dispatcher announcing a working fire at 1842 North St. Tower 1 arrived first...
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enjine16
Oct 20, 2009 11:15 am
1901-At 9:45 a.m. Box 35 at Seventh and Boas was “hooked” for a chimney fire at the home of John Schultz, 1017 N. Seventh Street. Damage was slight....
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jshutt_131
Oct 20, 2009 8:26 pm
56 years ago... 1953: A serious grass fire burned 2 acres of dense grass and weeds on the Joseph F. Heninger farm. Millersburg firemen used the booster tank...
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enjine16
Oct 21, 2009 10:54 am
1875- Box 41 (located at the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad depot where today would be the parking lot next to the Patriot-News Building) was pulled at 7:15...
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jshutt_131
Oct 22, 2009 4:33 am
120 years ago.... 1889: At 3 a.m. the still morning air was pierced by a voice crying "FIRE". As people got up, all eyes were on the bright light in the...
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enjine16
Oct 22, 2009 10:56 am
1951-During the spectacular fire that destroyed Shirk’s Motor Express terminal on the West Shore Road (present day U.S. 11/15) in East Pennsboro Township,...
