Monday, June 2, 2008

Penn Street Extended House Destroyed

On June 2, 1968 at 2:50 a.m. firemen were alerted to a house fire on South Penn Street extended. When firemen arrived they found the vacant 2-1/2-story frame house well involved in fire. Water was an issue in battling the blaze, as the hydrant located at Penn and Garfield was out of service and a line had to be laid to one at Apple Avenue. The blaze was ruled suspicious. A damage estimate was not available. Firemen remained on the scene until 5:30 a.m. The Vigilant Hose, Cumberland Valley Hose and West End Fire and Rescue companies battled the blaze under the direction of borough chief Dan Orris. The Vigilant’s returned at 7:30 p.m. for a rekindle.

I added a couple more links for CVEMS and Bill Strite's WEFR page so that all the Shippensburg Emergency Services sites could be accessed from this site. I know, before you say something, the my space sites are not on here, and I don't intend to link them either.
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 2, 2008 at 1:57 PM

    Brad,

    Thanks for the plug!!

    Cincy Bill

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  2. Brad MyersJune 2, 2008 at 6:40 PM

    No problem Bill, glad you are still reading. If you ever have anything to add be shore and comment, or if you have photos you want to see on here send them along.

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No comments can be made anonymous, you need not sign in but you must sign a name or they will be deleted. This is just to seperate fact from fiction and keep it from being anything like whacker fest pa fire.

I am sorry to add the word verification but recently 88 of my post were spammed in one night. I do not have the time to correct that many post again, so this will eliminate the bullshit.