Fire Damages Home Near Orrstown

On March 10, 1938 in morning hour’s firemen were sent to a house fire on the Orrstown Road at Greenawalt’s Mill. An overheated chimney caused a fire that damaged an occupied 2-½-story frame house. A second floor room was gutted along with the attic and roof, the other parts of the home suffered smoke and water damage. Firemen were hampered by heavy smoke conditions making it difficult to locate the blaze (remember SCBA’s were not used yet) and by slippery conditions caused by snow. Two lines were laid to the Conococheague creek, about an eighth of a mile away to supply water to the scene. Damages were estimated at several hundred dollars. It took firemen almost an hour to extinguish the blaze. The Vigilant Hose Company answered the alarm.