1906-Just around midnight, smoke was discovered issuing from the rambling one story brick structure of the E.N. Cooper foundry and machine works in the Eighth...
53 years ago.... 1958: The barn of Varnes Miller of Halifax was destroyed by fire before 5 a.m. on this date. The barn was destroyed along with 2 head of...
1925- Box 63 at Third and Briggs was “hooked” at 11:59 a.m. for a fire at 268 North Street. A candle was dropped on a bundle of clothes in a second floor...
48 years ago.... 1963: Fire damaged the home of Mr. & Mrs. Harry W. Kitchen of 506 Center Street, Lenkerville. The fire was discovered at 4 p.m. and the call...
1908-At 11:40 a.m. a telegraph message clicked into the Pennsylvania Railroad station and was quickly relayed to the Harrisburg Fire Department requesting...
1994-On this day were the beginnings of the HFD’s “marine division”. Boat 10-6 is owned by the Dock Street Dam Project and is an 18' aluminum tunnel...
1996-0255 hrs. 2303-05-07-09-11-13 N. 6th St. Row of three story brick vacant dwellings. Arson fire originated in the second floor of 2305 and extended...
2000-0135 hrs. 75-77-79 N. 17th St. Three story brick occupied row. An arson fire was set in 77. Arriving units had heavy fire out the windows. A flash over...
57 years ago..... 1955: The social room on the first floor of the two story concrete block building of the Gratz Volunteer Fire Company, in Gratz was damaged...
1912-At 8:30 a.m. a four year old boy, impatient for his breakfast of bacon, poured a full can of coal oil on the cookstove. Immediately an explosion occurred...
1990- 0856 hrs. 1509-11-13 Liberty St. Row of three story frames. Unattended cooking at 1511 gutted the first floor and caused fire damage to the second...
Seeing at today is the Dauphin County Volunteer Firemen's Convention, I thought i would throw this one out there and take notice to the location of the...
1884-Box 16, Cameron and Magnolia, was pulled at one o’clock in the afternoon. A barn and several outbuildings of John Q. Denneynear’s Lochiel Furnaces...
1902-This afternoon a gasoline stove exploded setting fire to the kitchen and spreading through the remainder of the first floor of 705-07 East Street in the...
So this brings a question from me. I always understood that Harrisburg had 16 volunteer companies (even though there were never 16 operating firehouses at any...
I'll have to re check again but I think there were about 24. The Lochiel's were actually accepted into the fire department by council and were numbered "8"....
1984-At ten minutes past noon an alarm was transmitted for the English Tavern, 2947 N. Seventh Street located in the Uptown Plaza, a one story “strip”...
1907-At 2:10 p.m. the Susquehanna Engine No. 9’s combination wagon was called via telephone to 37 Lochiel Row(about where Jackson Manufacturing is today)...
1913-Fireman Theodore “Dory” Shafer of the Hope Engine No. 2 died from the effects of a prolonged battle with pneumonia he reportedly contracted after...
1873- At 1:30 a.m. the dark northern city sky was rapidly becoming bathed in a harsh orange glow in the area of Ridge Ave.(today would be Sixth Street where...
7 years ago..... 2004: Williams Township, Box 24-4, 151 Colliery Road, at 00:42 hours, for a structure fire. Companies 22, 23, 24, 66, Schuylkill County 66,...
119 years ago..... 1892: The Millersburg Hook and Ladder Company elected new officers for the year. President - Stanberry Michaels; First Vice President -...
1898-Progress, Susquehanna Township. Six houses, a cutting mill, tavern, post office-grocery store, stables, chicken coops and even the wooden fencing between...
1950-Box 324 at Sixth and Verbeke was pulled at 3:20 a.m. for smoke issuing from the eaves of the three story frame row of houses at 1225-27-29-31 Fulton...
1828- All the buildings on the NE corner of Market Square, except the Wyeth building at Market and Raspberry (Court) Sts., and all the buildings on Second St....
1902-At around 8:00 p.m. in front of 317 South Front Street near Vine, a Locomobile touring car owned by John G. Diffenderfer of Steelton caught fire....
1894-at 1.15 a.m. Box 31, Third and Reily was sounded. A spectacular fire destroyed the sheds and stables on the property of Messrs. Wilfred and Redmond....
86 years ago..... 1925: Fire destroyed the flour mill of A. Leo & Sons in Halifax. Loss was $10,000.00. The Halifax and Community Fire Company was unable to...
1967-At about 8:30 p.m. a tractor trailer tanker carrying 33,000 pounds of an alcohol based solution overturned on the Second Street ramp off northbound...
