Friday, November 6, 2009

Shippensburg Township House Destroyed

On November 6, 1984 at 10:53 p.m. firefighters were dispatched to a house fire on the Britton Road in Shippensburg Township. An arson fire destroyed a vacant 2-½-story frame house. The house was located almost next to Burd’s Run stream; LDH was laid from the hydrant at the corner of Britton Rd. and Queen Street. Firefighters were on the scene two and a half hours. The Vigilant Hose, Cumberland Valley Hose, West End Fire and Rescue and South Newton Twp. fire companies answered the alarm.

2 comments:

Sparky said...

Check out the old SCBA. Is that rick THomas on the far left?

E4 Lt said...

ah... 2" hose, what a pita