Firemen Combine Hose To Extinguish Fire

On December 8, 1890 at 3:00 p.m. fire station bells alerted firemen to a fire on South Penn Street, just over the borough line. A fire that began in the attic around the chimney destroyed the upper portion of the home and its roof. The C.V.’s on the scene first took the plug at Orange and Penn streets, but ran out of hose before reaching the scene. The Vigilant Hose connected to the C.V. line and finished the lay. This left the companies short on hose providing them with just enough to play one stream on the fire. Damage estimates were not available. The Vigilant Hose and Cumberland Valley Hose Companies extinguished the fire.