Fire heavily damaged a longtime Lancaster County, Pennsylvania business Sunday, February 27, causing more than $500,000 damage to the Bird-In-Hand Window Sales factory, 367 Lynwood Road in East Lampeter Township, Pennsylvania.
No one was working at the business when the fire was reported at about 8:30 a.m.
Thick, black smoke poured from the doors and windows of the factory. Smoke could be seen from as far away as New Holland, Oxford and Lancaster Township.
A tanker relay was established to secure a water supply using 14 tankers from mutual aid companies. Tankers dumped their load of water into 2 Port-a-Tanks which were used to supply the fireground operations.
Fire Chief John Fazekas of the Bird-In-Hand Fire Company said a cement-block fire wall prevented the fire from spreading to an adjacent section of the building used for warehousing, which contained much of the firm
