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Recent Incidents
Rescue Responds to 3 Alarm Fire In E. Donegal Twp.
August 3rd, 2005, 9:30 PM
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EAST DONEGAL TOWNSHIP, PA — Lancaster Township Rescue 6-6 assisted
Maytown-East Donegal Fire Company at a three-alarm fire. The fire
started at 9:31 p.m. at Armstrong World Industries ceiling plant on
August 3.
Lancaster Township
Engine 6-6-2 transferred to Marrietta Station 7-10 to cover additional calls in there district.
Maytown-East Donegal Deputy Chief reported to incoming units there
was a working fire in the roof area of building number 7.
State police fire Marshall Brian Herr ruled the fire was accidental.
“Radiant heat from one of the exhaust stacks ignited material in the
roof,” he said. “It spread across the roof in one section of the
building.”
The fire started in a production area where ceiling tiles are made.
That part of the plant is now shut down, according to Armstrong
officials.
The plant makes ceiling tiles which are put through dryers. The fire
started in the plant’s board mill, where ceiling boards are made from
raw material. The roof appears to be the most damaged area. Damage is
minimal to the machinery.
Two Bainbridge Fire Company firefighters were hurt during the fire. One
experienced chest pains and the second was burned when a saw he was
using malfunctioned.
The fire company estimated the damage at $600,000. Armstrong officials
said they will have a better figure once the insurance adjusters finish
surveying the damage.
100 firefighters and apparatus from five counties included Lancaster,
Lebanon, York, Cumberland and Dauphin county, brought the blaze under
control at 4:06 a.m.
Assisting the Maytown Fire-East Donegal firefighters were 16 fire,
ambulance and haz mat companies. There were a total of 16 Engines, 10
ladder trucks, 7 tankers, 6 rescues, 9 ALS ambulances, 11 BLS
ambulances, 2 air cascade trucks, 2 special rehab ambulance units, 3
hazardous material units, 1 field communications unit and the Salvation
Army canteen truck.
Emergency Personnel remained on the scene until 4:39 a.m.
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